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Your economic rights from owning copyright
Understand the economic rights you own in copyright, and how to exploit and use your copyright work
Protecting your business from intellectual property crime
Why it is important to have a wide range of protection in place for your business' intellectual property
Intellectual property crime in the workplace
How employers should work to identify and prevent opportunities for IP crime to happen within your workplace
Collecting societies and licensing bodies
Learn how collecting societies can help copyright owners and the types of societies available
What is internal environmental auditing?
What an internal environmental audit of your business involves, its key aims, and what areas it should focus on
Selecting an environmental auditor
The skills to look for when choosing staff to carry out internal environmental management system audits
How to conduct an environmental audit
How to carry out internal environmental audits in your business and how to deal with non-conformances and observations
External environmental audits
The role of external auditors in the environmental management system process and the benefits for your business
Carry out an EMS management review
What the management review stage of an environmental management system is and what you should aim to cover
Financing growth
Explore different options for financing growth in your business - from bank finance and equity to grants and crowdfunding
How to grow your business
Guidance to help you explore the different ways of growing your business, such as franchising or buying another business, increasing your sales and market share, achieving efficiencies to boost profits or using IP to grow
Leading staff through growth
Guidance to help you manage change, including change of your organisational structure, recruit staff and directors, and lead and motivate your staff
Developing products and services
Key considerations for businesses that are developing new products and services
Manage business risks
Discover best practices in managing your business assets, monitoring and minimising risks to your business, and creating effective business continuity and crisis management plans
Growth through international trade
Key considerations to help you import, export and purse growth internationally
Growth through strategic partnering
Guidance on different partnering options for your business, including joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, and how to work collaboratively with another business or institution
Use innovation in your business
Guidance on using innovation in manufacturing and business operations, and the benefits of using artificial intelligence, Industry 4.0 technologies and open data in business
Design for business success
Discover how design can benefit your business, your products, services and branding
Growth through strategic sourcing
Understand the importance of strategic sourcing, how to outsource, and choose and work with reliable suppliers to ensure the success of your business
Assessing current performance
How to measure your business performance, set the right targets and assess whether you should grow your business