Business Insights

Lancaster University Management School has worked with many businesses from various sectors across the North West to help them innovate, develop, and grow. This page showcases some of the business leaders who have participated in our development programmes over the last few years.

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Brewery embraces digital transformation to achieve green growth

Posted on: 27 February 2025 by LUMS - Case Study

Technology is reshaping the brewing and hospitality sectors, presenting a wealth of opportunities to improve processes and enhance customer experiences.

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How ‘Good Growth’ re-energised accountancy firm Towers + Gornall

Posted on: 9 August 2023 by LUMS - Case Study

If the pandemic taught us anything, it was the value of collaboration. Driven by necessity, businesses joined forces to remarkable effect, looking beyond the profit towards positive outcomes for people, place and the planet.

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“Accidental” Lancashire business that now boasts an 18-strong team

Posted on: 13 March 2023 by LUMS - Case Study

Lancashire not-for-profit business Chorley School Sport Partnership, which provides PE, sports and health activities in schools, is going from strength to strength with eighteen members of staff and contracts with organisations including Sport England and Youth Sport Trust.  

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Growth is green at the Bath House

Posted on: 27 February 2023 by LUMS - Case Study

Growth abounds at Cumbria-based family business, Bath House, in more ways than one. As the pandemic eased, Bath House wanted to look again at their business’ direction and have a chance to take stock and plan. 

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How ‘Pricing with Purpose’ boosted growth at hair salon startup

Posted on: 13 February 2023 by LUMS - Case Study

A hair salon is on course for a new period of growth while weathering the impact of inflation after participating in a short, focussed programme by Lancaster University Management School.

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Helping small businesses in Lancashire Price with Purpose, through funded LUMS support

Posted on: 6 February 2023 by LUMS - Article

As so many business owners feel apprehensively forced to review their prices, it can be intimidating and with inexperience making them want to shy away from it, instead of facing what can feel like uncomfortable decisions, head on.

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It is time to embrace ‘good growth’: the road less travelled by

Posted on: 1 December 2022 by LUMS - Article

For 50 years the business world has trod the well-worn path that an enterprise will only survive and succeed by committing to a culture of ‘us versus them.’ But the world is changing rapidly. Decision-makers are under pressure to take on broad external factors such as the environment, community and social justice. Growth at all costs and to the detriment of others just doesn’t cut it anymore. We have reached a critical fork in the road.

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Ideas can become game-changing innovations or time-wasting interruptions. How do you avoid the latter?

Posted on: 20 October 2022 by LUMS - Article

We are living in a rapidly changing and uncertain world. And because the world is changing, so are customer’s needs which means businesses must evolve, adapt and change to remain relevant and competitive.

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How ‘Ideas into Action’ fast-tracked innovation for TP Financial Solutions

Posted on: 19 October 2022 by LUMS - Case Study

When you run a small business, there’s never enough time in the day to service your customers and handle the day-to-day operations, let alone take a step back to develop any of your ideas to grow or innovate. Tarnia Elsworth felt that time-poverty acutely.

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Cybersecurity: when soft skills are as important as software

Posted on: 14 October 2022 by LUMS - Article

Why it’s people, not technology, that will make or break an SME’s best attempts to prevent an attack.

You may have thought that the success of a business’s efforts to prevent an attack by cybercriminals would be defined by how much it spends on its technical defences. Surely, ploughing more money into the latest hard or software will create an impenetrable fortress? Not necessarily, says Dr Robyn Remke of Lancaster University Management School.

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