Are you a Small to Medium Enterprise (SME) owner or manager grappling with business challenges? Are you looking for innovative solutions and support to overcome these hurdles? We have just the right opportunity for you! Join us in our dynamic, interactive workshop where we employ a mini-sprint approach to help you uncover potential solutions.

The Mini-Sprint Approach

Our workshop employs a mini-sprint method, inspired by Google Ventures Sprint. This condensed version of the one day process is tailored specifically for SMEs, providing rapid, targeted solutions to your business problems.

Why Should You Attend?

Innovative Problem Solving: Harness the power of collaboration, creativity, and rapid problem-solving to transform your business challenges into opportunities.

Resource Optimisation: Learn how to navigate and utilise government funding and university knowledge to your advantage.

Networking Opportunity: Connect with other SME owners and managers, share experiences and build valuable relationships.

Who Should Attend? 

SME owners and managers who are encountering challenges across various business functions. Whether you're struggling with marketing strategies, IT implementation, fostering creativity, strategic management, human resources, employment relations, finance management, logistics, adoption of emerging technology, or cultivating leadership and a positive culture, this workshop is tailored for you.

If you're seeking innovative solutions to these complex problems and ready to elevate your business to new heights, do not miss out on this opportunity. Join us and transform your challenges into opportunities for growth.

What's In It For You?

Targeted Problem Solving: Whether your challenges lie in marketing, IT, HR, finance, logistics, emerging technology adoption, leadership or culture, our workshop is designed to address them all. Our experienced facilitators guide you through a focused process to identify, analyse and tackle your most pressing issues.

Government Funding Insight: We'll walk you through various government funding opportunities that can provide financial support to your problem-solving initiatives. Learn how to access and maximize these resources to bolster your business.

University Knowledge Utilisation: Discover how to leverage academic expertise for the benefit of your business. We'll show you how to tap into university knowledge bases to support your solutions and drive innovation in your enterprise.

This event will take place at our Merchiston Campus on 28 February 2024. Places are limited.

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This workshop is presented by The Business School at Edinburgh Napier University. We are dedicated to aiding SMEs across Scotland through our knowledge-sharing approach.