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Improving working practices to boost efficiency
Look at your current working practices, such as staff training and flexible working, to increase efficiency in your business
Industry 4.0: What it means for your business
Find out what Industry 4.0 is and how associated systems and digital technologies can help you to transform your business
Seven ways to encourage innovation in your business
Simple ways to support innovation in your business and improve your company, products or processes
The risks and rewards of innovation
How to assess the operational, commercial and financial risks of innovation and how to manage them to ensure that your business benefits
Create a business plan for innovation start-up
How to prepare a business plan for an innovation start-up and what to include in it to attract investment
Planning for innovation in your business
How planned innovation can benefit your business and keep you ahead of competitors
Generative AI for business
Understand the full potential of generative AI for business, and discover uses, applications, benefits and risk considerations.
Using the UKNI marking
Find out if you will need to use the new UKNI marking on products you manufacture or handle, and how to use it.
Business benefits of artificial intelligence
Find out about the advantages of artificial intelligence, including how AI can help you to reduce operational costs, increase efficiency, grow revenue and improve customer experience
Food allergies, food intolerances and labelling
Why food operators need to be aware of food allergies and intolerances, and how to put in place best practice.
Choose the right designer for your project
How to evaluate, shortlist and select a designer or a design agency that will fit your design project and budget needs
Advisory support for food and drink businesses
Sources of advice for businesses in the Northern Ireland food and drink industry.
Key things to agree with your designer
What are the main things you should discuss with your designer, including objectives, budget, timescales and intellectual property rights
Create an effective design team
Find out how to form a good design team for your business’ project and what design team roles you may need to consider
How novel foods are assessed
What the compulsory pre-market safety assessment for novel foods covers and how to get authorisation for novel food.
Manage your design project effectively
Understand how to efficiently manage and review your design project during different stages of the design process
Reasons to hire a professional designer
Find out how the right designer or design agency can help you improve your product, packaging, brand and sales
Industry 4.0 challenges and risks
Find out about the risks of Industry 4.0 for your business, and possible limitations of these new digital industrial technologies
Write an effective design brief
How to write an effective design brief that will help your designer understand your design problem and deliver the right solution
Pesticides and food safety
Introduction to how pesticides are regulated and pesticide residue levels are monitored in food.