Unlocking Potential

The Breakthrough 3 programme empowers early-stage and start up businesses to overcome common obstacles, achieve success and lay strong foundations for future growth.

Unlocking Potential

Unlocking Potential

Unlocking Potential

Unlocking Potential

Unlocking Potential

Taking a step back to look at the big picture can feel daunting at times, so our practical hands-on workshop facilitated by Digital Innovator Helen Jones, will break-down the ‘process’ of process improvement into stages which you can identify and adapt in bitesize chunks.

After an introduction to the theory, the workshop will breakout into a practical session where you can start to consider your own process mapping needs, and practice processing mapping with the help of the Digital Transformation team.

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Expert Agile Business Coach, Belinda Waldock, will open your mind to agile thinking and ways of working that can transform your business.

Join us to gain practical experience in tools and techniques that will help you approach team-working, business development and product development in new ways.

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Basecamp will help you work out what needs to change and come up with a practical plan to transform performance so that you’re up-to-date, fine-tuned and ready to go.

It doesn’t matter what kind of business you are or website you have, Digital Basecamp will arm you with a full digital marketing plan, the resources you need to deliver it, and the knowledge of how to get any extra help you might need, from search engine and keywords to paid online advertising via Google Analytics and driving traffic to your site.

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Our practical and fast-moving workshop will be particularly useful for more digital and service-based businesses who are looking to reduce their environmental impact by going beyond some of the elements we’re more familiar with when we think about our ‘Carbon Footprint’ (like packaging-reduction), to explore the hidden impacts in more detail.

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Our one-day Future Focus event exposes you to a world-leading expert, the input of ambitious, like-minded peers, future trends, practical tools and insights. As global business landscapes change with increasing speed and volatility, the need to scan the horizon and plot your best course has never been more urgent or important.

Our expert keynote, Anne-Lise Kjaer, has been helping businesses navigate the future globally for nearly 30 years. Using case studies from her work with pivotal change-makers, as well as her unique methodology – described in her book ‘The Trend Management Toolkit – A Practical Guide to the Future’ – Anne-Lise will help you to identify and use trends to shape your own business future.

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Overview of topic

Mobile Apps have significantly gained traction in the past couple of years. Partly in response to the pandemic forcing people to increasingly interact online, or to transact in a contactless way.

But more fundamentally than that, the increase of smartphone usage in virtually every manner of personal and professional life has skyrocketed the popularity for Apps. And the ever-present nature of smartphones means apps are now integral to all types of businesses and sectors. Consumer behaviour on mobile has changed and with 84% of adults in the UK now using a Smartphone, the evidence is clear – Apps can be a great added sales and communication tool to your customers.

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Overview of topic

Thinking about changing or upgrading your business' website? Does it keep dropping down your ‘to-do’ list as it feels like too much of a challenge or you are not sure how to explain what you need to a developer? Or know if you even need one?

Our next Marketplace event ‘How to buy a website’ will demystify some of the expectations and realities of what buying or upgrading a website could need to include. From approaching the topic ‘problem first’ and writing a brief to better illustrate your needs. To gaining a greater idea of budget expectations, and a broader understanding of the level of expertise required for projects of varied sizes and budgets.

This event will be a chance to hear from some local digital experts and talk to the Digital Transformation team. To gain insight into the approaches the experts often take, in order to meet your needs but also could inspire you to digitally transform more than your website.

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Overview of topic

This Future Focus event will give you the opportunity to learn from experts, be inspired by business case studies and connect with support to help you implement change. We’ve worked with Jon Hurrell from Cornwall Manufacturers Group to ensure this event meets the needs of businesses in the region.

Experts Leah Rider (Head of SME Delivery), Jonathan Butt (Deputy Chief Engineer - Digital), James Helm (Technology Programme Manager - SME Projects) and Kyle Pender (Advanced Research Engineer - Sustainability) from the UK’s world-leading National Composites Centre (NCC) will deliver sessions on advanced materials, net zero, sustainability and industrial digitalization. They will illustrate how collaboration and technology are key to overcoming supply chain disruptions and skills shortages, whilst enabling you to effectively implement your sustainability goals and realise real-life benefits.

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Overview of topic

The Digital Transformation team would like to invite you to a practical morning event, to help shape the direction of the Digital Marketplace, on Thursday 10th March.

As part of the project, we’re working towards building greater connections, conversations and collaborations between the diverse and vibrant business community of Cornwall who are seeking and eager to transform their business through digital, and our expert tech sector who are at the forefront of digital change.

This is where the ‘Digital Marketplace’ comes in, but in order for this to work and continue to work as the world evolves - we want you to help us shape it. As leading businesses who have already started your digital transformation journey, you are perfectly placed to guide our understanding of the wants and needs of our business community.

We are already trialling and testing the Marketplace vision with digital business owners and leaders across Cornwall, but we need to get a broader view of the challenges faced by businesses who are trying to purchase, or contract and implement a new digital solution.

What's been your experience of getting tech support for your business, or finding the knowledge to help with identifying potential solutions? What were you feeling when you started to think you might need a new (digital) Tech solution?

These are the sorts of questions we need answering to enable us to create a Marketplace that is going to be useful, supportive and ultimately help your business to grow through digital, now and in the future.

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Agile Product Development

Overview of topic

If you are looking at developing new products or services for your business, or just starting out and want a better way to test and develop all those bright ideas – then look no further!

Agile product development is an adaptive approach for supporting the design and development of new products and services.

Expert Agile Business Coach, Belinda Waldock, will open your mind to agile thinking and ways of working that can transform your approach to new product development. Join us to gain practical experience in tools and techniques to help shape those ideas.

What will be covered:

• You will gain an understanding of key concepts, principles and methods for agile product and service development.
• Apply these to your own product or service development within your business and:
• Map your customer journey
• Identify your minimum viable product
• Create your product roadmap

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Basecamp will help you work out what needs to change and come up with a practical plan to transform performance so that you’re up-to-date, fine-tuned and ready to go.

It doesn’t matter what kind of business you are or website you have, Digital Basecamp will arm you with a full digital marketing plan, the resources you need to deliver it, and the knowledge of how to get any extra help you might need, from search engine and keywords to paid online advertising via Google Analytics and driving traffic to your site.

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Agile isn’t just about technology.

Expert Agile Business Coach, Belinda Waldock, will open your mind to agile thinking and ways of working that can transform your business. Join us to gain practical experience in tools and techniques that will help you approach team working, business development and product development in new ways.

What will be covered:

• Understand and adopt key agile concepts and principles
• Gain practical experience of using agile tools and practices
• Learn to apply and implement agile methods and practices
• Identify when are where to take an agile approach

Outcomes:

You’ll leave the session full of ideas on how Agile methods can be applied to your business and a Agile roadmap for 2022!

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Niall McKeown from Ionology will take you on a journey using practical tools and resources, driven by data, to help test your new ideas.

Starting with the customer in mind and using Niall’s rapid prototyping board, you will discover ways to test new ideas quickly that will be analysed and backed up with data to evidence whether your new innovation could be successful.

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Headforwards in partnership with Unlocking Potential and Software Cornwall are thrilled to be able, finally, to welcome you to the new FibreHub and Digital Transformation Space located next to the Cornwall College campus at Pool.

Brainchild of Toby Parkins and Craig Girvan, co-founders of one of Cornwall’s largest tech companies, Headforwards - FibreHub is the new space where tech, software and digital businesses can connect. More than just a workspace, their ambition is for FibreHub and FibrePark to become the modern-day equivalent emblems that the tin mines once were, creating a new tech revolution in Cornwall.

Unlocking Potential

Headforwards in partnership with Unlocking Potential and Software Cornwall are thrilled to be able, finally, to welcome you to the new FibreHub and Digital Transformation Space located next to the Cornwall College campus at Pool.

Brainchild of Toby Parkins and Craig Girvan, co-founders of one of Cornwall’s largest tech companies, Headforwards - FibreHub is the new space where tech, software and digital businesses can connect. More than just a workspace, their ambition is for FibreHub and FibrePark to become the modern-day equivalent emblems that the tin mines once were, creating a new tech revolution in Cornwall.