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How to store hazardous substances
Ways to reduce the risk of causing harm to the environment by storing hazardous substances appropriately.
Managing hazardous substances
Guidance on how you can safely use, store, transport or dispose of hazardous substances in your business.
Measure performance and set targets
Discover key performance metrics, essential tools, and target-setting strategies to help your business grow.
Advantages of reviewing business progress and target-setting
Understand how to use business performance reviews to set targets and develop a growth strategy for your business.
Efficiency and environment - find a case study
Case studies on how businesses have tackled environmental issues, process and resource efficiency and worked successfully to reduce their impact on the environment
Deciding which key performance indicators to measure
How to decide which key performance indicators and metrics to measure for optimal business success and profitability.
Use KPIs to assess business performance
How to select key performance indicators that are well-defined and quantifiable to measure your business performance.
Grow your retail business
Find out how to improve your retail business, attract more customers and grow your sales through tactics like visual merchandising and online retail.
How to market your retail business
How to successfully market your retail business in a changing world, looking at traditional advertising, sponsorships, partnerships and digital marketing.
Retail business networking
Get your retail business known in the local community and across Northern Ireland and beyond by engaging in local networking events and activities like CSR.
Advantages and disadvantages of online retailing
Online retail has advantages and disadvantages for businesses with huge growth potential balanced against initial costs and security and legal issues.
Support for growing a retail business
Starting or improving a retail business can attract certain financial, training and advisory support in Northern Ireland, find out which organisations can help.
Explore new retail opportunities
Growing your retail business takes a good business plan as well as spotting and exploiting the right opportunities, discover the options for expanding.
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.