Sword - SME Programme

The innovation programme for small and medium-sized business

The Sword SME Programme enables small and medium-sized companies to grow by producing a portfolio of innovative new business ventures, based on company strengths. Sword SME contains key elements of the Scimitar programme specifically tailored to suit the needs of smaller companies.

Benefits

• Trains a team of your people in thinking skills and creativity techniques.
• Provides a new and exciting perspective of your company’s business prospects.
• Builds a portfolio of new business ideas, which integrate with your company strengths.
• Provides a rigorous system to appraise new business ideas.
• Creatively improves your ideas portfolio and turns ideas into creative business concepts.
• Produces a short list of 3-5 exciting new business ventures for your company ready for launch or investment.
• Enables your team to re-run the programme in-house whenever appropriate.

Format

• We work with a team of your people, leading them through 9-13 half-day workshops over a six month period.
• Teams are usually between two and four in number.
• We build a model of your business to make sure we keep focused on your strengths.
• We train your team how to think creatively and to look for new ideas.
• We search the model for new ideas using these skills.
• We develop and assess your ideas through a series of processes to find the winners.
• We continually apply creativity techniques to front-running ventures to ensure they reach their full potential.
• We use a mix of styles according to the task.
• The programme is challenging and fun, with a lot of personal development.

Tailored Variants

• Farming Innovation Programme.
• Social Enterprise Innovation Programme.

 

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