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Business growth: cashflow management
Cashflow issues are common in growing businesses - here's how to control working capital and manage finances for growth
Business growth: developing skills
Developing effective leadership skills and making the most of other people's abilities can help you grow your business
Measure your financial performance
Use common financial performance measures, such as profit margins and accounting ratios, to review your business finances
Employee focused performance measurement
Tools and techniques to measure and manage your employee performance more effectively
Benchmark your business performance
Use benchmarking to measure your business performance against that of your competitors as a focus for your growth strategy
Set business performance targets
How to move from performance measurement to target-setting in order to help your business improve and grow
Customer focused performance measurement
How to gather and manage information to help your business attract, retain and sell to customers
Competitor analysis
Performance metrics you can use to analyse your competitors, and how to use this information to inform your business decisions
Grow your business - find a case study
Local businesses tell their stories of growth, share strategies for success, and explain how they manage performance and risks
Growing a successful business - OutsideIn
David Johnston, founder and CEO of OutsideIn, explains how his company has grown and shares key lessons from its journey.
Make best use of standards
Introduction to the different technical, management and best practice standards, and their benefits to your business
Assess your networking needs and requirements
How to define your networking requirements and what to consider when assessing your computer networking needs.
Advanced computer networks: intranets, extranets and VPNs
Different types of business computer networks, including wide area networks, virtual private networks, cloud networks, intranets and extranets.
Networking administration, support and maintenance
The administration and maintenance implications of introducing a computer network into your business.
Office networks
Understand the different types of office computer networks, including peer-to-peer and client/server local area networks.
Benefits of computer networks
Key advantages of networking your computers and reducing costs by sharing your files, resources and storage on a business network.
Computer networking
What is computer networking, what benefits can it bring to your business and how to choose the right networking solutions.
Bring Your Own Device: benefits and risks
Pros and cons of BYOD practice in business, key security considerations, and the importance of having a BYOD policy.
Mobile telephony devices
How to take advantage of mobile telephony and related services, and make effective use of mobile devices in business.
Mobile networking devices
The options for data networking with mobile IT devices, and how this can benefit your business.