This year, we captured various learnings on stage that will help determine the competitive SME landscape, identifying the significant drivers of growth and change for smaller businesses now and in the year ahead.
Annual Conference panel debate: Creating the headroom for growth
Learnings at Annual Conference
With the cost of doing business so high, we need to be honest about what we’re facing. Smaller, less-developed organisations can no longer afford to be served half-measures.
As Sir Keir Starmer highlighted in his keynote address, “More small businesses are going under now than at any time since records began…. Every single one a personal tragedy: an ambition, a dream, an investment in a better future – gone.”
Whilst this sounded like the mere pointing out of a problem, over the course of the Conference it became apparent that it actually pointed out the better part of the solution: prioritise small businesses to help boost innovation, thus fuelling growth.
At the Conference, both the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition agreed to prioritise research and innovation, and the CBI’s President announced a boosting of the CBI’s enga
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