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Sword SME
 The innovation programme for small and medium-sized businesses
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 and Rapier programmes, specifically tailored to suit the needs of smaller compnies.
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.
Business Support Agencies
- Sword SME programmes are usually run in conjunction with local business support agencies, to make sure there is on-going support for companies.
- For details of your nearest programme, please contact our associate company, Excalibur UK Ltd.
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