Lancashire Forum looks to empower SME businesses to thrive in a post-Covid world

The world has changed. The businesses who thrive will be the ones who change with it. As hard-hit businesses dust themselves off and look to the future, there’s a real opportunity. An opportunity to recover – but recover differently. People will hold businesses in the post-Covid world to higher levels of scrutiny, expecting them to […]

The EnginE Project – Benefits to the business

Find out from the EnginE team how this project can benefit your business: Lancaster University Management School – EnginE Project Manager, Annette Suddes Lancaster University Senior Lecturer – Dr. Steve Eldridge

New digital skills grow North West manufacturing

Develop your strategic thinking to support the adoption of hi-tech and digitally-based manufacturing techniques into your own production processes and learn how to successfully bring employees and other stakeholders along on your digital transformation journey. Don’t just take our word for it, see comments below about what our first delegates thought about our Made Smarter […]

Driving growth in NW SMEs by solving the productivity puzzle

Understanding what drives productivity growth is vital to tackle the UK’s “productivity puzzle” and to exploit the opportunities presented by Industry 4.0. Lancaster University’s expertise in the productivity agenda is making Lancashire the place for people based productivity solutions – and its Manufacturing & Engineering SMEs are feeling the benefits. This powerful message was delivered […]

Lancashire businesses learning to manage the Circular Economy

With ever looming environmental challenges and financial pressures, waste reduction and better use of resources is high on the agenda for many organisations. Alison Stowell highlights how businesses can learn to manage the Circular Economy through shared practice, drawing on her experience delivering workshops to local businesses as part of a low carbon innovation. The […]

A global emergency – why businesses need to think about the bigger questions

“If human life is going to be sustainable on this planet, we have to get away from things like GDP per capita and rethink how we measure success,” says Darren Axe. “I’m delighted to contribute to the Low Carbon Innovation Forum because it challenges ‘business as normal’ – that’s what we’re all about.” Darren has […]

A re-skilled workforce – business success for the SME manufacturing sector

Skills shortages. Talent gaps. How do you upskill your SME manufacturing sector workforce, helping your people to be the best, giving your business the competitive edge? Small and medium sized (SME) manufacturing businesses need to develop their workforce to ensure productivity, growth and a culture of innovation. Suppose there was a simple way to kick start this. […]