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• Out-thinking the competition—advanced creative techniques to give companies
the edge through enhanced decision-making and improved leadership

capabilities.
• Building the innovative organisation—to demonstrate how fundamental
improvements in organisational behaviour can embed innovation in all aspects
of successful business activities and how to protect the results.
• Improving selling skill—to help improve understanding of the sales process and
the development of personal selling skills across senior management.
• Leading and managing high growth—training for senior managers who have
had little previous formal training and lack the leadership and management
expertise to sustain growth.
• Change management—implementing change at middle management level is a
major concern in growing companies. This proven change management training
helps middle managers deal effectively with change.
• Management information healthcheck—an audit of a company's current man-
agement information, followed by a written report on the potential management
information needs of the business as it grows.

Providing these programmes through third party contractors that work across
regions can help to keep cost low while helping to up-rate a region's innovation
capacity.

4.5 Regulatory Journey

Many new ideas have emerged following the liberalisation of markets and
deregulation. In addition and conversely a number of new markets have emerged
as there is increasing control over some aspects of human endeavour such as
development and the need for increased control over the environmental effect of
these endeavours.
Many new companies need to be cognisant of the opportunities these changes in
the legislative framework can provide or limit Fig. 9 .
Examples of deregulation that has driven entrepreneurship include changes in
the telecoms sector and in some areas of bio-technology such as allowing stem cell
research while in contrast the need to test the environmental impact of develop-
ment has created an industry that now has to employ ecologists to do the work.

Fig. 9 Characterisation of the regulation journey associated with business development