Business Operations and Processes
Improving your business operations and processes can be a cost-effective exercise, as well as necessary to maintaining the quality of your product or service as you grow.
Seeking an accreditation can increase productivity and efficiency, in addition to serving as an added reassurance to your customers.
Operationally, outside influences such as outsourcing can have a direct impact on your cost and customer satisfaction. Plus, if you are outgrowing your existing premises, you may be finding it a challenge to scale your operations and transform your business processes.
The York and North Yorkshire Growth Hub can work closely with you to overcome these issues and provide support aimed at preparing your operations and processes so that they can sustain your future growth plans. Contact us today.
We can support your business operations with:
- Business improvement and development
Improving existing business practices is key to evaluating efficiency, improving workflow and optimising services. - Outsourcing and contracting
If you’re looking to outsource a work process for accounting, HR support, or IT services, we can recommend external providers that will work best for your business. - Process mapping and planning
We can help you with defining your goals, documenting your current workflow and modelling new processes.
Find out more about business operations and processes.
To find out more about how we can help with business operations and processes, get in touch.
Articles
Work with the Growth Hub: Opportunities Now Live
We are now procuring a series of specific business support programmes, as part of North Yorkshire Council’s SPF plans.
Secure your place: Business Support Programmes 2024
The Growth Hub is hard at work curating a new package of business support programmes for 2024. The programmes will be available to businesses located in North Yorkshire, funded by North Yorkshire Council’s Shared Prosperity Fund.
Choc Affair Wins Prestigious Made Smarter Yorkshire & Humber Award
The region's manufacturers took centre stage at Insider's 2024 Made in Yorkshire Awards. The prestigious event celebrated Yorkshire and Humber's world-class companies and their impact. One of the big winners was Choc Affair, the beloved York chocolatier renowned for its ethical and award-winning creations. Choc Affair clinched the top spot in the Made Smarter Yorkshire & Humber Awards.
Events
12th April 202410:00 am - 11:00 amFREE
12 April Webinar: Are you up to Standard? Officially...
Whether you are selling a products or services, you want to make sure you’re up to the standards. In the UK, Trading Standards teams enforce over 80 parliamentary acts and pieces of legislation. So, are you up to their standards? We want you to be. In this friendly session, we’ve invited expert, adviser and coach Russell Bignell to guide us through the challenge of ensuring we are meeting and exceeding the standards expected of UK businesses.
17th April 20249:00 am - 11:00 amFREE
17 April - Ian Walker: Tax and Accountancy for SMEs and Start-Ups
Join us at the Enterprise Centre for a support session on Tax and Accountancy for SME's and Start-Up businesses with Ian Walker. Learn everything you'll need to know in the early days of starting a business!
18th April 20249:30 am - 11:00 amFREE
18 April - North Yorkshire Council: Connect Over A Cuppa
This free session for North Yorkshire SMEs will provide you with a space to share new ideas, solve problems, and connect with like-minded businesses. You will also get the chance to speak with specialists about support for your business.
Resources
Young Entrepreneur Guide
Do you have a business idea? Or do you want to work for yourself? Then the Young Entrepreneur Guide is here to help you!
Webinar Recording : How to pitch your product to a Retail Buyer
How do you know which retailers to approach? How do you approach the Buyers (the ones with the spending power)? And once you’ve found the right retailer and the Buyer, how do you convince them to sell your product? In this 1 hour session we will take you through the best way to find, approach and pitch to a retail buyer. We will prepare you with an overview of the Buying cycle, review the considerations that you will need to be aware of, share questions a Buyer might ask and provide a clear outline for the perfect pitch.
Webinar Recording : Creating Videos for Your Business
Daniel Pingstone of Fly Flow Media recently delivered two webinars in partnership, looking at how to create videos for both products and service based businesses. In this condensed recording, Dan covers the content shared in each of those sessions.