Q&A: Made Smarter Leadership Programme for Manufacturing Industry Leaders

Giving your business a competitive edge takes more than just the right digital tools – it needs business leaders to embrace and drive that change. Made Smarter can make this transition easier for businesses, with the leadership development programme.

We’re delighted to be delivering the Made Smarter Leadership Programme, developed by Lancaster University Management School.

And, we’re now accepting applications from SMEs across Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Cheshire, and Warrington.

What is the Made Smarter Leadership Programme? How can it help manufacturing SMEs across Cheshire, Warrington, and Greater Manchester? Is it just for business leaders?

The programme provides you with the space to focus on your business. To explore ways new technologies can support beneficial changes to grow, develop or improve your company.

It gives you, as an owner/manager, time to work on your business strategy and explore (using tools and techniques) how new technologies can improve your SME.

During the course, you’ll:

• take a strategic view on adopting new digital technology into your production processes
• gain insights on how digital-ready your business is
• learn how to measure the true impact of new technology
• discover the best ways to bring employees and other stakeholders on your digital journey
• test new ideas in special project ‘sprints’

Being part of this programme will ultimately enable you to sharpen your leadership capabilities while developing the skills to drive technological change in your business.

It’s also a chance to build a peer network of like-minded makers.

We know you’ll have lots of questions about this programme, and how it could help your small business.

To tell you more about our sessions, who can take part, and what to expect when you join, we’re hosting an informal briefing for anyone interested in finding out more.

It’s a chance for you to ask any questions you have, and to meet our project team too.

See our Made Smarter programme page

Register for the event here