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Advantages and disadvantages of outsourcing
Discover the benefits and risks of outsourcing - consider them carefully to assess the potential impact on your business.
Choose an outsourcing partner
How to find the right outsourcing partner and choose a provider that can add value to your business.
Service level agreements
Service level agreements define the service that outsourcing partners are expected to provide.
Advantages and disadvantages of road transport for international trade
The pros and cons of using couriers, freight forwarders, hauliers, or operating your own vehicles to move goods by road.
Advantages and disadvantages of sea transport for international trade
The pros and cons of using sea transport when importing or exporting and the practicalities of shipping goods by sea.
International transport and distribution
Road, rail, air and sea options for transport and distribution and how your business can choose between them.
Absence and sickness policies: what to include
An overview of what to include in absence and sickness policies.
Benefits of an absence and sickness policy
Productivity, morale, and staff retention can be improved with clear workplace policies on absence and sickness.
Manage absence and sickness
Information and guidance for employers about managing sickness and absence in the workplace.
Making environmental claims
Good practice when you make green claims about your products and services and information on what you can't claim.
Promoting your environmental credentials to customers
How your business can promote your environmental credentials to customers and where to get further advice.
Gaining recognition through environmental standards
How to use environmental standards to help gain recognition of the environmental credentials of your business.
Using environmental labelling
Green labelling schemes that you may be able to apply to the products and services that your business sells.
Environmentally responsible marketing
How your business can decrease the environmental impact of your print marketing and alternatives to physical print.
Advantages of using environmental reports
An overview of the benefits of using environmental reporting and key performance indicators in your business.
Environmental work in your local community
How you can work with your local community on environmental projects and the benefits that your business can gain.
Environmental awards and recognition for waste reduction
Awards recognise your efforts and can help to promote your business as an environmentally responsible enterprise.
Strategic issues for investment appraisal
Assessing how an investment fits into your business strategy and long-term objectives.
Food tourism opportunities
Business opportunities in Northern Ireland’s growing food tourism market for producers, hospitality providers and tourism experience providers.
Accountability under the UK GDPR
Accountability principle says organisations are responsible for, and must be able to demonstrate, compliance with the data protection laws.