Overview of Competitiveness Supports
Green for Business
The Green for Business support is a FREE consultancy programme designed to help small businesses like yours become more sustainable. Through up to three days of expert consultancy, you’ll work with a specialist Green Consultant who will identify practical, impactful changes tailored to your business.
Whether it’s cutting costs, improving efficiency, or enhancing your reputation, going green can give your business a competitive edge - while also benefiting the environment
How can your business benefit?
- Lower operating costs
- Better use of energy, water, and materials
- Reduced carbon footprint
- Enhanced brand image and customer appeal
- Greater resilience to climate change
You can learn more about the Green for Business programme and apply for the support here.
Digital for Business
The Digital for Business support is a FREE initiative designed to give Local Enterprise Office clients a digital edge. Through up to three days of consultancy, our expert digital consultants assist through:
- Analysis of existing digital systems in the business to identify potential gaps in meeting business needs.
- Exploration of opportunities to optimise existing systems and to integrate with new solutions to enhance business operations.
- Guidance on the implementation of new or enhanced digital solutions.
It has helped businesses:
- Reduce stress in running their business.
- Improve business results.
- Eliminate paperwork and reduce time spent on administrative tasks.
- Efficiently meet regulatory requirements.
- Integrate Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems.
- Streamline processes for digital customer experiences.
- Enhance insights into business performance.
- With staff retention
You can learn more about the Digital for Business programme and apply for the support here.
Transform 123
Many business owners are completely unaware of the hidden minutes being lost in their business, every day, week, month and annually and the financial cost of these to a business. These Hidden minutes are a serious cost to any business- the higher the frequency, the higher the unknown cost to a business. These hidden minutes result from overlapping of tasks, of incorrect processes in place, repetition of information and lack of digital knowhow in how information is communicated, acted upon, stored, and used daily in your business.
This programme will transform how you communicate with your suppliers in the future and impact of all aspects of your business by:
- Reviewing how you used to carry out processes
- How you have created new better methods of working
- How you bring these learnings to show your suppliers how you want them to work with you in the future.
We will assign a consultant to work with you on a one-to-one basis, look at your business, identify bottlenecks in people processes, paperwork, overlapping of tasks and suggest digital tools and techniques to improve the flow of your business operations.
Lean tools and techniques will help you to:
- Increase your profitability and competitiveness
- Increase productivity and the bottom line by analysing and improving your systems and processes
- Identify systems required to improve your communications and structure e.g. accounts systems, CRM, etc.
- Optimise technology and automation of tasks for labour intensive processes
- Simplify administration to grow your business
- Experience the benefit of a breakthrough improvement project
You can learn more about our Lean for Business programme here.
