Cranfield School of Management

Growing Businesses

Entrepreneurship is a key aspect of the modern economy. At Cranfield, our aim is to equip you with the knowledge, confidence and capabilities to grow your business. We have been working with ambitious owner managers for over 25 years, creating numerous success stories and many multi-millionaires. We offer programmes for businesses right across their lives, from start up to exit.

We have helped over 1,300 owner-managers achieve their business and personal ambitions. Many seek to grow their business more quickly and achieve increased profits while other businesses are already growing rapidly and want to manage and control that growth. Maybe you want to develop a robust growth strategy for the next stage of development of your business. Or you want to develop an exit plan – we can help.
Whether your motivations are more personal: seeking clarification of goals and drivers or more professional, we have the experience and expertise to help you create the future you want for your business and yourself.

Below are some of the programmes we offer for small and growing businesses. The Growing Business portfolio of programmes is offered by the Bettany Centre for Entrepreneurial Performance and Economics which carries out research on entrepreneurship in the fields of economics, finance, strategy and entrepreneurial management more broadly.
The Business Growth and Development Programme (BGP)

For ambitious owner-managers, who have been in business for at least three years and have a turnover between £0.5m and £20m. This programme provides a unique opportunity for you to step back from the day-to-day demands of running your business and focus on developing a plan for the future.

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Essential Management
2 + 2 days

For any manager in a growing business who recognises the need to develop their management skills and contribute more to the future success of the business.

This programme provides a solid grounding in the principles of management and the core business functions.

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Sales Management for Growing Businesses
1 day

For those responsible for setting up, directing or leading the sales function in a growing business.

This programme provides the opportunity to take an in-depth look at your sales organisation.

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Finance Fundamentals for Growing Businesses
1 day

For managers in growing businesses who need some familiarity with finance, particularly for those who have had no formal financial training.

This programme provides an essential introduction/refresher to the basic financial concepts that are required by every owner-managed business.

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Selling or Buying a Business: Corporate Finance for Growing Businesses
2 days

For the founder, shareholders and top decision-making team to be able to transact with confidence. Learn the language, pitfalls and processes of buying a company, selling a company and raising finance.

The focus of the course is on the practical and not the technical; how do you transact and how do you avoid costly errors and get it right every time.

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What Participants think...

"BGP was worth every penny and I`m no longer flying by the seat of my pants!"

Lara Morgan,Pacific Direct

"Joining the Cranfield University BGP has been an ‘eye opening’ journey to ways in which we can grow and develop our company allowing us to place our business in a very strong and sustainable position moving forward. We have gained a great deal of invaluable experience from the course.

Just by putting into action the ideas we gathered at the initial Briefing session before the programme started, more than covered the cost of the BGP programme itself."

Martyn Curley and Steve Oldbury, bidwriting.com

"We’re busily applying our BGP learnings and we’re hiring good people who fit, so the future is not only bright, everyone understands what we want and is helping build it. The atmosphere’s great!"

Mark Dendy,Excitation Ltd

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