Growth planning
START-UP, SCALE-UP
Welcome to growth planning
In this stage you'll learn how to create a plan for growth.
You'll look at the options you could use to enable your growth options and start to understand which might be right for your business.
There's no one right way to grow. You need to understand each of the options and how they might work for your specific business needs.
Once you're done
When you've finshed this stage's learning take our quick completion form to move to the next stage.
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Build your growth plan
- Know how to plan and prepare for growth
- Set achievable growth goals
- Start to build a sustainable growth plan
Reshape your target market
- Evaluate the markets you’re in
- Explore growth within and outside of your current market
- Map your market strategy to your growth plan
Use marketing to grow
- Learn marketing techniques for growth
- Know the impact of customer relationships
- Explore how these can help you achieve your goals
Use digital tools to grow
- Identify the benefits of using digital skills and tools
- Learn which tools could help achieve your goals
- Map which areas of your business would benefit
Use innovation to grow
- Learn ways to innovate your products and services
- Practise and generate ideas for innovation
- Recognise how innovation could help your business grow
Check you have the foundations of business growth
Whether you've taken our full programme or not, you can look back at the lessons that will help you to create the foundations you'll need for growth.
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