The pain of taking the leap to that next stage of growth can be enormous. But as small businesses continue to dominate the UK economy, can we ease the strain of growth and accelerate it by taking a lighter hearted approach to business expansion? PMSI explains the rules of the growth game.
‘Servitisation’ – jargon invented to fulfil the needs of management academics or a business paradigm companies should be exploiting to remain competitive? Jane Gray looks into the practicalities of selling services as a route to enhanced revenues and growth.
TM's editorial team is out and about at a wide variety of industry conferences, debates and factory tours month in, month out. Let’s get a snapshot of the most interesting events in the last two months.
Investing in building management technology is a smart choice, finds Tom Moore.
UK manufacturers talk about the value of their Made in Britain credentials and whether they apply the same purchasing principles they aim to induce in customers to their supply chain decisions.
As excavation of lost Spitfire aircraft in Burma has brought the famous warplane back into the British psyche, TM looks at the history of this iconic British aircraft.
New invisible light technology developed by EADS in Wales is facilitating the transmission of vast quantities of ‘mission critical’ data while airborne. Tom Moore reports.
Winners, runners-up and highly commended entries from the EEF Photography Awards 2012
A Derbyshire start-up has developed a thin material clothing under layer that is four times more fire resistant than commonly used synthetic materials and can help prevent wound contamination.
After two years of remaining fairly provincial, there are signs that the Sheffield City Region’s three-day Global Manufacturing Festival is actually going global. And there is proper value-add for visiting SMEs as the organisers plan to fix business networking meetings with multinational companies.
