For Business

Improving competitiveness, innovation and personal development

There are a number of ways that the Business & Community School can work with your business to ensure growth. Whether you are a creative business looking for skills upskilling, leadership and management training and growth support, or an SME looking to develop new products, services or approaches to business, we have the creativity and innovation expertise within our Staff & Students at Epsom & Farnham.

Continuous Professional Development (CPD):
We recently ran an 18-month professional development courses in the area of leadership and management, Web 2.0, social enterprise and business planning in our Creative Advantage programme. This is was a subsidised training programme, with most workshops, lectures and seminars available to businesses for free. Our CPD courses are often Masters-level equivalent 'tasters' of some of our provision in Innovation & Brand Management, Creative Enterprise, Design & Strategy and Fashion Management & Marketing. We'll be running more programmes in the future, so please follow the @ucabcschool Twitter feed to find out more.

Bespoke Training:
We've already delivered tailor-made training for a range of clients (including Nokia and Novartis) in response to their very specific needs. We've run full-day workshops on a range of business needs - either in the upskilling of staff on creative software or on embedding creativity and risk-taking into everyday working practice. If you're looking for an injection of new knowledge or working methodologies in your business, please email Philip Ely in the Business & Community School.

Innovation for Business:
Through knowledge transfer partnerships or consultancy, the Business & Community School can draw upon over 250 academics to provide specialist knowledge including Advertising, Branding, Interactive Design, Interior Design, Product Design, Textile Design, Film & Media Production, Fashion Design, Fine Art, Animation, Journalism and Graphic Design. 

Through a recent Knowledge Transfer Catalyst project, funded by the Arts & Humanties Research Council, we were able to engage textile design graduate Allison Woodley on an innovation project with Welsh Woollen Mill, Melin Tregwynt. The project, supervised by Course Leader and Designer Hannah White, enabled Melin Tregwynt to explore new print and weave processes to develop a new range of products for the export market.

If you're looking to re-energise, re-evaluate or create new products and services, contact Philip Ely, Associate Dean, Business & Community.