Daily Management Routines
The intent of this webinar is to give you a high level understanding of some of the structures that can help your business increase visibility of performance, instil key behaviours and ultimately grow and improve.
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Practical Export Skills: Navigating your business on Social Media
This is a recording of a recent webinar developed in partnership with digital marketing agency Brilliant Red. The amount of time people are spending on social media platforms on a daily basis has risen significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic. The tutorial highlights the importance of a business staying connected with its audience during the current COVID-19 pandemic.
Construction Industry Insights from Chile
Invest Northern Ireland partnered with Cámara Chilena de la Construcción (Chilean Construction Chamber—CChC) to provide sector insights from Chile’s construction industry. Panellists gave an overview of the Chilean materials handling industry—covering residential construction, mining construction, and waste & recycling—then discussed challenges and updates with regards to Covid-19, and opportunities for international companies.
Featuring:
- Ignacio Troncoso, Chair, CChC International Affairs Commission
- Cristian Herrera, Head of Events & Exhibitions, CChC
Construction: Go Digital, Improve Productivity & Strive to Net Zero
At this event, construction business leaders in digital technologies and productivity shared the latest on Innovation in Sustainable Manufacturing in Construction Materials and their journey in Decarbonising the Built Environment.
Hear more about how your business can improve competitiveness at a time of volatility, escalating energy, material and labour costs. Benefit from sharing expertise and exchanging ideas that will help construction companies to drive improvements in productivity with advanced digital solutions, striving towards a net-zero agenda.
This webinar will provide key information
Construction Equipment Industry Insights from the USA
Invest Northern Ireland partnered with Associated Equipment Distributors (AED) to provide insights from the equipment industry in the USA. They discussed current challenges faced by distributors, the state of the market in the USA, changes in market dynamics and purchasing habits due to Covid-19, how to find and approach potential distributors, and insights from Washington DC on the new US administration and potential for investment in infrastructure.
Featuring:
- Brian P. McGuire, President & CEO, AED
- Robert Henderson, Executive VP & COO, AED
- Daniel Fisher, Vice President of Government Affairs, AED
Circular Economy
Niall Collins, Sustainable Futures Consultant, KPMG Ireland gives an overview of the circular economy and why Northern Ireland companies should consider circular economy thinking in their operation. He explores the circular economy themes, why it’s important to consider and the next steps for Northern Ireland businesses.
China Market Briefing: Construction & Demolition Waste Recycling
In order to help capitalise on this export opportunities, Invest Northern Ireland has developed a sector report to help Northern Ireland companies build knowledge on the Chinese market and scope business opportunities. In this webinar, the Regional Director for East and West China, Damon Peng will share the key findings around market opportunities and provide market entrance advice.
CE Marking for Mechanical Engineering
Overview
This tutorial is based primarily on the Machinery Directive. It provides guidance on compliance and assists participants to determine the route that is most appropriate, cost-effective and efficient for their product. For the majority of companies, CE and UKCA marking is a self-certification process and involves an evaluation of the product or machine using risk assessments and relevant standards.
Key speakers
In this tutorial, Colin Graham, Pearse McAnallen and Jacqui Curley, from Invest Northern Ireland’s Technical Advisory Unit, discuss CE Marking for Mechanical Engineering
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Capitalising on the Circular Economy
Businesses that adopt the principles of the circular economy can reap significant financial and reputational benefits while positively contributing to global climate change targets.
A circular economy encourages innovation, increases growth, and creates sustainable employment – and if local businesses transition to operating a circular economy, the impact will be felt across society. Both globally and locally, governments are in the process of legislating for and promoting circular economy models.
This tutorial will explain the principles of the circular economy and discuss the opportunities
Business Opportunities in Data Centres
The global Data Centre Construction Market is expected to reach annual investment of $32 billion by 2025 and Northern Ireland has a strong capability in the provision of products and services to the sector.
This webinar is about understanding the supply chain and identifying opportunities for companies during construction, the post-construction market for operation, maintenance and facility upgrades and the growing demand for the data centres to be powered by renewable energy.
You will also find out about Invest NI support to help you access this growth market.
Assured Skills Pre-Employment Training for Digital ICT companies
When a company is creating jobs in Northern Ireland, the Assured Skills Programme can help them access new talent and skills through the delivery of pre-employment training academies.
The Assured Skills programme is a short, demand-led, pre-employment training programme and is fully funded by the Department for the Economy. It upskills individuals and helps them compete for guaranteed job vacancies in expanding businesses or new foreign direct investment (FDI) companies.
The Academy Model is flexible and versatile, and has been used to help companies recruit new staff in areas such as software
Access to Finance to Decarbonise your Business
More and more businesses are aiming to put sustainability and the Green Economy at the heart of the rebuilding and recovery process – an ambition that has real benefits from both a cost and carbon footprint perspective. Invest NI and BEIS will give you an overview of the various support available to help your business undertake feasibility studies, engineering studies and energy efficiency projects to start you on the decarbonisation journey.
Access to Finance | Ambition to Scale – Day 2 The Fundraising Journey
Whether starting up or scaling up, all businesses with an ambition to grow need access to funding.
Hosted by Susan HayesCulleton and delivered by Invest NI, British Business Bank and InterTradeIreland, this video tutorial is a recording of day two of a two day conference. With an overarching theme of ‘Ambition’, the conference was targeted towards businesses seeking to scale, and wished to find out more on how to obtain finance to achieve growth, through the experience of industry experts and local businesses. Day two focused on the fundraising journey, and explained how businesses can obtain
Access to Finance | Ambition to Scale – Day 1 Accelerating your Network
Whether starting up or scaling up, all businesses with an ambition to grow need access to funding.
Hosted by Susan HayesCulleton and delivered by Invest NI, British Business Bank and InterTradeIreland, this video tutorial is a recording of day one of a two day conference. With an overarching theme of ‘Ambition’, the conference was targeted towards businesses seeking to scale, and wished to find out more on how to obtain finance to achieve growth, through the experience of industry experts and local businesses. Day one focused on how businesses can accelerate their network.
This tutorial is a
Abu Dhabi FinTech Eco-system: Opportunities and routes to the UAE market
Invest NI IMEA partnered with key stakeholders in the UAE Tech Ecosystem to deliver a 60 minute virtual panel outlining opportunities and routes to this market, specifically Abu Dhabi which is the largest FinTech hub in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region with access to the South Asian markets as well. It is home to half of the region’s FinTech companies. Key opportunity areas include:
- Digital Banking / Open Banking
- Insuretech
- RegTech
- Data Analytics and Cyber Security
6 Week Planning
This webinar looks at how short-term projects, taking 6 weeks – can offer sustainable progress, which is also rapid enough to keep pace with a fast-paced world.
Spotlight on China
This tutorial is the second in our Spotlight On series, and first in our targeted Spotlight on Asia-Pacific tutorials. Through this tutorial you will gain insights and trends around the exporting opportunities available to local businesses.
It features presentations from our first Spotlight on Asia-Pacific event held on 18th June at Stormont Hotel covering the market of China as well as panel discussions from local businesses already exporting to the continent.
There are seven sessions featuring eleven speakers and it will take around 2 hours 53 minutes, but you can do it in your own time or one
Lean Thinking: Driving competitiveness
Lean thinking questions the smallest incidents so we can create repeated experiences, handle interruptions with less risk and learn to react better. It can help you learn to always keep safety first, value flow second and cost third. This tutorial explains what lean thinking is, its principles and techniques and how to apply them to your business. Done right, you will not only identify the current ‘waste’ in your business but maximise available resources and make them work easier, better, faster and cheaper.
Plant Layout: Plan and choose the best plant layout
With the social distancing measures likely to remain in place for some time, now may be the time to review and rethink the layout of your premises and business processes to make sure that you can comply with any new restrictions during the COVID-19 crisis. This tutorial explains the principles that underpin good plant layout and will help you incorporate any future social distancing requirements.
Although developed for manufacturing, these principles can be applied to businesses in any sector including warehousing, retail and the office.
Innovate UK R&D funding application
A step by step guide on how to complete a successful Innovate UK R&D funding application
Materials Handling Opportunities: South East Asia
The market for heavy machinery in South East Asia has grown significantly over the past few years particularly in the mining, construction and infrastructure industries. To help understand the dynamics of this growing market, Invest NI has commissioned a report that identifies key opportunities and challenges for Northern Ireland materials handling companies who wish to do business in the region.
Listening to this webinar will provide you with an overview of key findings from the report. You’ll also have the opportunity to hear from industry experts located in Singapore.
Recruitment & Selection: Appoint the best person
The aim of a recruitment and selection process is to appoint the best person for a particular job in an objective fashion using the merit principle.
Watching this tutorial will provide you with quality advice that will help you to recruit and select more effectively. It will help you employ the best people to achieve your business objectives.
During and at the end of the tutorial you will be able to download a range of sample templates to use during the process.
Export Finance: Risks of international trade
It can be exciting to close your first international sale but selling into export markets can bring new risks you must be able to finance an overseas contract and protect yourself against not being paid. Understanding export finance is key to successful exporting.
Watching this tutorial will make you aware of the many financing options available, so that you can choose the one that best suits your customer and your company.
At the end of the Tutorial you will be able to download a checklist to help with your decision making.
Business Direction: Prepare your growth plan
You are looking to grow your business but when was the last time you stopped dealing with day to day stuff and really analysed your current performance?
You need to do this first if you want to set the right direction for your business. This tutorial will help you do this. There are 6 chapters. It will take around 30 minutes but you can do it in your own time or one chapter at a time. There are practical exercises to do as you progress through the tutorial so allocate time to do it.
Northern Ireland's ageing workforce
When was the last time you looked at the age profile of your workforce? You need to do this as Northern Ireland, (like the national and global picture) has an ageing demographic structure.
This in turn has potential repercussions for your business and for both the current and future supply of your workforce labour.
This presentation will help you become more aware of the effects of changes in demographics and assist you to lessen any associated impacts on labour productivity or on your business growth.