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Evaluate your ecodesign products
How to use feedback from production and sales departments to ensure the manufacture of profitable ecodesign products
Advantages of having a project manager
How to choose and work with a great project manager, or develop project management skills in-house.
How to show your products meet EU legal requirements
Find out if you need to meet a specific technical or management standard to sell your product in European markets
Employee focused performance measurement
Tools and techniques to measure and manage your employee performance more effectively
Trade marks and geographical indications
Guidance for businesses and organisations on the relationship between trade marks and geographical indications (GIs)
Project management checklist
Use our checklist to help you improve project planning and execution, and manage your project successfully.
Standards for best business practice
Overview of the most popular technical and management standards, and how they show best business practice for business
Customer focused performance measurement
How to gather and manage information to help your business attract, retain and sell to customers
Set business performance targets
How to move from performance measurement to target-setting in order to help your business improve and grow
Project management templates and tools
Find project management sample documents and templates, including project scope, project plan and risk register templates.
Placing manufactured products on the market in Great Britain
What you need to do to comply with regulations on manufactured products you place on the market in Great Britain.
Advantages of project management
Discover how project management methods and strategies can help you reduce risk, cut costs and improve success rates.
SWOT, PESTLE and other models for strategic analysis
Introduction to the common business analysis models, including SWOT and PESTLE analysis, scenario planning and Porter's Five Forces framework
Measure your financial performance
Use common financial performance measures, such as profit margins and accounting ratios, to review your business finances
Benchmark your business performance
Use benchmarking to measure your business performance against that of your competitors as a focus for your growth strategy
Competitor analysis
Performance metrics you can use to analyse your competitors, and how to use this information to inform your business decisions
How you can use product design
How careful design of your products can increase your profits and reduce your production costs
Financial risk
Understand the main types of financial risks to your business and find ways to mitigate and reduce them
Strategies to help you manage business risk
Common strategies for treating the risks to your business are avoidance, acceptance, sharing, reduction and elimination
Problems with growth: overtrading
Overtrading and lack of finance are common problems in a fast-growing business - here's how to overcome them