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Strategic Management Programme

Running a manufacturing business can be both time consuming and rewarding – meeting the needs of customers, suppliers and employees. Yet do you make time to understand your market, your customers and your supply chain? Are you and your team moving in the right direction to guarantee future success?

 

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MAS-SW Strategic Management Programme
for South West Manufacturers


The Strategic Management Programme (SMP), delivered by the Manufacturing Advisory Service in the South West (MAS-SW), has been designed to help ambitious manufacturers turn growth aspirations into reality. The programme enables them to move up the ‘value chain’ and embrace knowledge-intensive, high added value manufacturing to meet current and future challenges and create new opportunities for growth.
 

What does the SMP do?

  • Works directly with your senior management teamto help devise a practical business growth strategy
  • Lends expert advice in action planning
  • Helps you identify and remove barriers to growth
  • Supports implementation to ensure sustainable change and success
  • Offers a critical friend who can guide you in your decision making
    • "“MAS-SW brought a level of objectivity to strategy development which can sometimes be difficult to achieve within a business team. The wealth of operational experience from the MAS-SW team, together with the structure and process of the strategic review, has enabled GWP to formulate and cement a clear strategic plan for the future development of our business.”
    GWP Group

The Programme

The SMP is tailored to suit the needs of manufacturers and consists of:

    • Strategic Review – typically takes five to eight days over a four to eight week period. An SMP specialist will work with your senior management team and conduct a combination of on-site meetings and structured practical workshops which will result in a cohesive and comprehensive business strategy
    • Implementation – a key output of the business strategic review is a detailed, prioritised and achievable implementation plan. Further support is available for manufacturers requiring assistance in implementing their plan

    • Performance Review – at the end of the programme, MAS-SW will undertake a free one day review to measure progress against the plan and identify further actions that could benefit your company in achieving it’s objectives.

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Our organisation

The MAS-SW is one of the Government’s Solutions for Business suite of offerings and is funded by the South West Regional Development Agency through the European Regional Development Fund. It is one of 11 regional MAS offices that draws upon a network of world-class associates delivering the skills and knowledge to tackle even the most complex of issues.

MAS provides practical, hands-on support focused on improving your bottom line. Whether you’re looking to improve efficiency, raise productivity, develop new ideas or tackle a problem that is hampering profitability, our specialists are here to help and if you are an SME all our support is either free or highly subsidised*.

Since SMP was launched just over 4 years ago, MAS-SW has:

  • Supported over 100 manufacturers with their strategic planning and implementation
  • Created over £20 million gross value added (GVA)
  • Enabled £6.5 million to be invested by the participating companies
    in new technology and equipment, factory moves and extensions, improved IT and business operating systems
Adrian Knight, IT manager, Thorn Cycles says: “We have made so many improvements in the last nine months. If we had not taken part in the SMP, we would still be doing the same things that we were doing last year. Some of the biggest changes are in how we structure the business, which is starting to show significant benefits. Simple changes, such as creating area supervisors with responsibilities for specific activities, has had a dramatic effect.”

Cost-effective

Delivered by local manufacturing professionals with practical knowledge and skills, the SMP has provided a sound return on investment for participating companies.

Jason Rigby, managing director, Taunton Fabrications says:
“We were introduced to the SMP at a time when we were looking at potential paths for future growth. The external impetus and specialist knowledge helped us to clarify the right direction for the business in terms of markets to be exploited, areas requiring attention to enable growth and the aspects of our offering which make us competitive. The programme has provided us with a route to success
and ongoing support by specialists at the MAS-SW will be invaluable on this journey.”

This programme is available to all manufacturing companies in the South West region. Part-subsidised funding is available for companies who meet all of the following criteria*:

  • Employ between 10 and 250 people
  • Turnover under £45 million each year
  • Are based in South West England
  • Are ambitious for growth
  • Are an autonomous company

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Contact us today:
Telephone: 0845 608 3838
info@swmas.co.uk

 

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