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The DTI has been promoting best practice for many years as a way of helping businesses become more efficient, competitive and profitable. Since April 2004 they have replaced a complex array of business support schemes1 with a suite of a few strategically focused business support products. Two of these operate under the theme "Achieving best practice in your business".
Access to Best Business Practice - this is for all businesses wishing to find out how to improve their performance through better ways of working. It provides materials on best practice (including case studies, free brochures, reports and a range of self-assessment tools), networking events, and organised visits to businesses successfully implementing best practice.
Support to Implement Best Business Practice - this is for small businesses wanting practical help in implementing best practice (it is also open to larger firms for certain projects). It provides a free diagnostic run by a Business Link adviser, with subsidised consultancy for selected projects. The service is available in England only but similar schemes are offered by the appropriate organisations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
1. These included the former SBS schemes known as Inside UK Enterprise, CONNECT for Better Business, and the Benchmarking Index although the best elements of those schemes have been taken forward into the new products.
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