Enterprise learner Kerry Hector took part in an innovative scheme run by IOEE Enterprise Academy GGT Solutions on behalf of her social housing provider, A2Dominion Housing Association. The initiative gave her the skills, knowhow and funds to develop MovieMobil – a brilliant social enterprise that takes cinema into communities. We chatted to Kerry about MovieMobil […]
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City Business Library upgrades service with SFEDI professional qualification
In 2016 London’s City Business Library began using SFEDI professional qualifications to add value to its existing services. We spoke to Richard Wingate of Quality Leadership and Management (QLM) who delivered the training, as well as to some of the librarian learners themselves. London’s City Business Library provides its users with an invaluable array of […]
UK Family Business Survey 2017
PwC recently released their eighth annual Family Business Survey. This year, the results shone the spotlight on the potential impact on UK family businesses in the wake of the Brexit vote. The survey showed that family firms are facing new challenges, but that they remain confident and optimistic about what the future holds, as well […]
Spotlight On … Paul Freeman
Paul Freeman is the CEO of PMH Digital Solutions; a mentoring business he founded to ‘promote the digital lifestyle’. It offers a range of digital products and courses to help people who are looking to discover how they can embrace digital opportunities in order to work for themselves, and get a healthier and happier work-life […]
A patently great idea
Simon Krystman, who has recently become an IOEE member, is the man behind IdeasPatch, an innovative route to funding the filing of patents for talented inventors, who often find themselves in a catch-22 situation of no-patent, no investment. We chatted to him about his unique business model and his own route to entrepreneurship. Despite graduating […]
Why are entrepreneurs like rugby players? Because they keep on trying.
For March’s edition of Think Enterprise, the IOEE’s monthly newsletter, we interviewed IOEE Fellow Paul Boross. As well as being a respected authority on the art of excellent enterprise communications and someone who has worked with high street banks, household-name media corporations and leading broadsheets, Paul is ‘The Pitch Doctor.’ This role sees him travel […]
IOEE Academy status for ambitious social enterprise!
Sam Everard is the woman behind the Samee Project, a unique, Bournemouth-based social enterprise that secured its IOEE Academy status in February. The Samee Projects helps individuals from disenfranchised backgrounds on the road to self-employment or employment. We chatted to Sam about her own journey, which has taken her from wedding industry entrepreneur to successful […]
IOEE Academy provides great enterprise Solutions
Husband and wife team Lennox and Georgina Thomas run GGT Solutions, a London-based IOEE Academy that specialises in enterprise training and consultancy. We interviewed Lennox about the business, its services and why becoming an IOEE Academy was a significant step. Lennox Thomas’ professional background lies in the recruitment sector and before setting out with GGT […]
Accredited Distance Learning Launches with our Acclaimed Award in Enterprise Mentoring
Following the successful launch of the IOEE Campus and based on requests from members we have now widened the offer to include accredited distance learning courses. The first of these, our Professional Award in Enterprise Mentoring, is available now with a discounted rate for members. Our Award in Enterprise Mentoring programme is perfect if you’re […]
Small Business Policy – A Different Perspective?
Written by Leigh Sear. In the late 1970s, David Birch – an economist at MIT in America, proposed that small businesses were the most important source of job creation in the US economy1. The research undertaken by David Birch highlighted that 66 per cent of all net new jobs in the United States during 1969-1976 […]