What: This assessment helps assess the strategy of manufacturing companies. It consists of 77 questions and a prioritisation exercise and is expected to take about 45 minutes to complete.

Who: This assessment is appropriate for small and medium sized manufacturing companies. It expands on the basic manufacturing assessment to provide a more comprehensive evaluation.

What: This assessment helps evaluate the supply chain priorities and practices of manufacturing businesses. It should take about 45 minutes to complete.

Who: This assessment is appropriate for small and medium sized manufacturing companies that wish to improve their supply chain.

What: The assessments offfers insights into product strengths and weaknesses by evaluating utility, usability, desirability, producibility, profitability, and differentiation. The product audit is an ideal precursor to an evaluation of the design process and supports both project planning and process improvement.

Who: This is aimed at managers in manufacturing businesses who are involved in the design of new products. However this could be used by anyone involved in the product development process.

What: This assessments helps evaluate the design process for a manufactured product. It covers core elements of the design process such as requirements capture, concept design, and implementation.

Who: This is aimed at managers in manufacturing businesses who are involved in the design of new products. However this could be used by anyone involved in the product development process.

Transferable Skills are abilities you acquire through jobs and work experience as well as from your personal life (hobbies, sports and other experiences) that can be used in a new job or career. Transferable skills are especially important to those who are facing redundancy, new graduates who are looking for their first jobs and to those returning to work after an absence.

Trying to decide if your business should be a for-profit business, a charity non-profit or a social enterprise?

Take this assessment to understand how your preferences in terms of corporate structure, asset ownership, profit distribution and business objective determine the kind of business structure your enterprise requires.

Both Social Enterprises and For Profit businesses make a profit for their owners. By answering this series of questions you will be able to determine if your business preferences would be best met by a Social Enterprise or a For Profit business. You will also become familiar with business structures, like Company Limited by Share and Company Limited by Guarantee that are shared by both business models.

For Profit Businesses and Social Enterprises can limited in one of two ways: either by Shares or by Guarantee.

Take this assessment to see which legal structure best meets your business requirements.

Cooperatives can be used to establish For Profit businesses, Social enterprises and Charities.

By completing this assessment, you will learn whether your business needs may be best met by creating a cooperative.