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Project management templates and tools
Find project management sample documents and templates, including project scope, project plan and risk register templates.
Advantages of project management
Discover how project management methods and strategies can help you reduce risk, cut costs and improve success rates.
Thinking about growing your business (video)
Short video tutorial covering some important points to consider before growing or improving your business.
Project management
Introduction to project management, the different methodologies, processes and stages, and benefits to your business.
Is my business ready to grow?
Common reasons why you may want to grow your business and how to tell if you're ready to expand.
Types of business growth: rapid and organic
There are many different ways to grow your business, and at different paces - some strategies are riskier than others.
Avoid problems during business growth
Common issues that businesses often face during growth, and tips for overcoming these difficulties through proper planning and management.
Business growth implications
Growth can have many implications for your business - it will affect your premises, equipment, staff and IT systems.
Distance selling
The rules and regulations on distance selling (eg phone, mail order, online) and how to do it effectively.
Commercial dispute resolution: common contractual clauses
Examples of common contractual clauses that may be included between businesses.
Commercial dispute resolution: litigation
When alternative dispute resolution methods fail, court-based litigation can be used to come to a decision.
Commercial dispute resolution: mediation
Mediation as an option for resolving commercial disputes, the benefits of confidentiality and the mediation process in Northern Ireland.
Commercial dispute resolution: arbitration
Arbitration as an option for resolving commercial disputes, organising an arbitration, setting rules and choosing and arbitrator.
Commercial dispute resolution: adjudication
Adjudication is a popular method of commercial dispute resolution, often used in the construction industry.
Commercial dispute resolution
Guide to commercial dispute resolution options including mediation, arbitration, adjudication and litigation and the advantages and disadvantages of each.
Recovering energy and producing fuel from waste
Recovering energy using anaerobic digestion, gasification, pyrolysis and incineration, and making biofuel.
Checklist of export packaging considerations
Protecting your goods from damage and securing them from theft are key considerations in export packaging.
What to mark on your package for export
How to ensure safe transportation of your goods by using visible, durable and standardised handling instructions.
Checklist for getting your export packaging right
Issues your business should consider before packaging your goods, from packaging waste rules to insurance implications.
Your export packaging options
The ways you can choose to ship your goods, from loose and unpacked to palletised and containerised.