Insights4Mfg

Featured guest, John Cooper, Director of Cooper Cooper Media, speaks with Jeff about the opportunities for UK Manufacturing businesses to raise their profile through the creative use of Photography & Video.

“If you have an amazing product or service that helps people, you have an obligation to promote it”

How can businesses use their own heritage in promoting their products and services?

How can businesses promote themselves when taking advantage of moving into E-Commerce?

How can we raise the collective voice of Manufacturing?

How have the advances in digital technology enabled businesses to capture the heart and soul of what they do?

Featured guest, Floriane Fidegnon-Edoh, Head of Industry, Innovation & Technology at Policy Connect, speaks with Jeff about some of the challenges for UK Manufacturing and how the research, roundtables and discussions the thinktank has with Manufacturers, Support Organisations and Trade Bodies feed into Government policy.

Who is Policy Connect and what does it do?

What policy areas are currently being researched?

How can SME Manufacturers get more of the right support from UK Government?

What impact has the scrapping of the Industrial Strategy had on UKMfg?

Featured guest, Bethan Jepson - Founder of Allied Women in Engineering and Partner at Allied Global Engineering and UK Business Capital Partners, speaks with Jeff about the opportunities within UK Manufacturing & Engineering to solve Leadership and Skills challenges through diversity.

What is Allied Women in Engineering?

What are the biggest challenges for females in the Engineering & Manufacturing space?

What are the main barriers to change?

This conversation was recorded before the inaugural Allied Women in Engineering event in Birmingham on March 8th 2022.

Featured guest, Vanessa Ashworth, Marketing Director & Manufacturing Advocate speaks with Jeff about how Marketing can supercharge the growth of UK Manufacturing.

What's most important when setting marketing strategy?

What marketing channels give the best value or ROI for Manufacturing businesses?

Should small businesses outsource their marketing?

How can Manufacturing SME's create their own Value Proposition?

Featured guest, Mike Wilson - Chief Automation Officer at the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) speaks with Jeff about some of the challenges and opportunities for UK Manufacturing, surrounding Research & Innovation.

Who is the MTC?

What services and support do they provide?

How does the MTC act as the bridge between Academia and Manufacturing?

What barriers do SME's need to overcome to adopt Robotics & Automation?

Featured guest, Andrea Wilson, Founder of the #SupportUKmfg Campaign & Petition for a Minister for Manufacturing and Director of Hone-All Precision, speaks with Jeff about the recently launched Petition and why it's so important for UK Manufacturing SME's to have a voice in Westminster.

What areas do SME Manufacturers need more support with?

Where are we in the Campaign - what are the hurdles?

What is the message to UKGov?

How can other Manufacturers and individuals support the Campaign?

Featured guest, Sandy Findlay - Partnership Director at ABGi UK speaks with Jeff about the availability and benefits of R&D Tax Credits and how UK Manufacturers can take advantage of this financial scheme to develop and launch new technologies and products.

Who is ABGi UK?

What is R&D Tax Relief?

What can a Manufacturing or Engineering business claim for?

What are the benefits of using an R&D Tax Credit specialist?

Featured guest, Terry Scuoler - CBE & Chairman of The Institute of Export & International Trade speaks with Jeff about some of the challenges and abundance of opportunities for UK SME's following Brexit.

Who are the IOEIT?

What support is available for businesses looking to export?

What are the first steps to take when considering export for the first time?

What does the future look like?