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Use KPIs to assess business performance
How to select key performance indicators that are well-defined and quantifiable to measure your business performance.
Buy business property
Guidance and tips on buying business property in Northern Ireland including how to search for commercial premises and finance your purchase.
Security, fire and flood protection for business property
Best practice guidance for Northern Ireland businesses to minimise the risks from crime, fire, and flooding in commercial properties.
Tax breaks and finance for business property
Guidance on water charges, stamp duty, and tax reliefs for Northern Ireland commercial property.
Insurance for business property
Guidance for Northern Ireland businesses on commercial property insurance.
Rent business property
Guidance and tips on renting business property in Northern Ireland including commercial leases and landlord and tenant responsibilities.
Property efficiency
Guidance on how businesses can reduce energy consumption and save money by making commercial premises more efficient.
Business rates
Guidance for Northern Ireland businesses on non-domestic rates, how to pay them and available rate reliefs.
Home working
Best practice guidance on using your home as a place to base your work.
Small Business Rate Relief
The Small Business Rate Relief (SBRR) provides different levels of rate relief for Northern Ireland business properties depending on their net annual value.
Strategic planning for business growth
Understand the importance of a clear and effective strategic plan to enable the growth of your business
How do you develop a strategic plan?
List of elements to include in your strategic plan - from your vision statement to your key goals for implementation.
Steps in the strategic planning process
Overview of strategic planning and management, and the importance of involving different levels of staff in the process
Key elements of strategic planning
Understand the essential questions that you should consider as part of your strategic planning process
Types of strategic planning models
Using strategic models, such as Five Forces, SWOT or PESTLE analysis, can help you assess threats and opportunities facing your business.
The purpose of strategic planning
Understand what is meant by strategic planning, what the process entails, and the purpose it serves in your business
Implementing a strategic plan
How to implement and execute your strategic plan, and monitor performance against your strategic objectives.
PESTLE analysis example
An example of PESTLE analysis, and information you should examine to assess external factors affecting your business
SWOT analysis example
An example of a SWOT analysis, and how to assess your business' strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
Change management
Change is constant in business - find out why you should manage it, and how to prepare your staff and business for change.