Information Technology (IT) is a wide ranging and occasionally complex area which can become confusing and misleading to the business person.
Considerable effort has been invested in the Midlands to create a number of sources for advice and guidance to assist those thinking about exploiting IT further within their business. This service has drawn all those sources together into one place to allow you to make a more informed decision about where you want to turn to get appropriate independent assistance in getting the right IT solution for your business.
This directory carries a profile of all the available support organisations available to you, and further links to allow you to make initial contact with the source that you think will meet your needs most accurately. The directory has been segmented into critical business drivers. Consider what you want from using IT in your business and then follow the links below.
Provides details of projects and organisations that can provide support and assistance with making improvements to the administration side of your small business through the adoption of ICT. This includes accounting, finance, human resources, customer relations management (CRM) and other activities that support you to organise your resources effectively.
Successful marketing of any small business is a key element is helping the business to grow and prosper. This section of the directory identifies projects and organisations that offer support to SMEs with developing a marketing strategy and incorporating electronic marketing within it, which includes the development of a website to promote your business.
Provides details of projects and organisations that can help your small business grow and how adoption of e-business technologies can help you to become more productive.
Identifies training opportunities offered to small businesses and their employees to develop skills in support of e-business adoption in the region.
Identifies specific technologies that can be implemented to support small businesses including mobile and wireless technology.
Anything not in the above! This includes information on data security.