Dynamic markets demand dynamic new products A constant flow of new products and services is vital, particularly in dynamic markets such as manufacturing and engineering. The ever-changing wants and needs of your customers are driven by many things but it’s on the validity of your products and services that you will be judged. This is my …
Manufacturing: the UK market needs you now If you’re a manufacturer or engineering firm, I bet you’ve got stories about UK-based customers and prospects who found it cheaper to import from, say, Italy or India rather than buy ‘locally’ from firms like yours. How times have changed! Some of these prospects would probably welcome a …
International markets: where’s the business for UK manufacturing and engineering firms? How do you take advantage of it? 2 very good questions which I address in this blog as the process of investigating, identifying and taking advantage of, the many market opportunities that lie outside of the UK. (Manufacturing opportunities in the UK will be …
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At the beginning of the year, a search for ‘uk manufacturing 2017’ would get you reasonably positive results. Headlines like “UK industry booms back to life”, would appear. Now, remarkable statements like “UK economy fires on all cylinders as signs of more balanced growth emerge” (attributed to the Telegraph, 11 February 2017), are emerging. Do …
Are you managing a team that is smarter than you? Your team should be smarter than you – if you’ve got the right team, of course. They should be more up-to-date, swifter or have greater expertise than you. The question is are you comfortable managing them and achieving the kind of performance that helps you …
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‘Interim’ – it’s not really a positive word is it? It doesn’t inspire confidence, reminding one as it does of transience. Even recruitment firms sell their services based on the fact that an interim won’t cost employers a company car, healthcare, NI or a pension because they’re not employees. Having done the job successfully for …
Most business leaders will have heard of Dale Carnegie’s seminal work ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People’, but have you considered how it could still have relevance to the growth of your business? Based on a personal development course Carnegie offered in the 1930s, ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People’ hinges around the …
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We recently came across an article by Shonaig Macpherson, chair at the Royal Lyceum Theatre Company, which suggested that a failure of business leaders to trust their gut and provide an instinctive and authentic reaction is the reason behind the general public’s lack of trust in business. Macpherson noted that in the past decade or …
A new study has shown which business ideas are expected to take off in 2015, after looking into emerging business and consumer trends to identify the top ideas for new business founders. Startups.co.uk compiled the list of business ideas, entitled ‘What business to start in 2015’ earlier this year. Below are just a few – …
Have you come up with one of the best business ideas for 2015? Read More »
Whether you are just starting out or are an established business, you need to know how you are performing.In a very simple term, the strategic plan is a document that should tell you.
