As part of our mandate to help small and medium-sized business leaders increase their productivity, we publish research and studies. This helps us to understand business leaders and what will make their organisations more productive.
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Ambitions Beyond Growth: Responding to the diversifying needs of the UK’s SME population
The Ambitions Beyond Growth: Responding to the diversifying needs of the UK's SME population report finds that one third of UK small business leaders not focusing on turnover growth.
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Measuring Construction Site Productivity: A seven-step framework for success
The Construction Productivity Taskforce has published a practical seven-step framework to improve construction site productivity..research-report
Be the Business Productive Business Index – Edition four Q1 2022
Latest index report reveals that businesses are continuing to invest in building capabilities in several areas critical for productivity improvement..research-report
UK's leading productivity-focused organisations sign MoU
The Productivity Institute and Be the Business have signed an MoU to collaborate to better understand and improve the productivity of UK businesses..research-report
The Construction Productivity Taskforce is raising performance in the sector
The Construction Productivity Taskforce is aiming to identify and trial new ways of making the sector, which has historically low productivity, more efficient..research-report
Be the Business and BAE Systems: Getting SMEs on a path to growth
BAE Systems’ direct support allowed Be the Business to scale the support we could offer rapidly and engage thousands of small business leaders at a crucial time..research-report
Be the Business Productive Business Index – Edition three Q3 2021
The headline Productive Business Index has increased sharply from 108.77 to 119.0. Rising inflation, wage demands and increased costs of doing business has pushed productivity to the top of business and political agendas..research-report
Skills for Success: Supporting business leaders with digital adoption – in partnership with The Open University
Be the Business has been working with The Open University on a report to understand the skills that are needed to help support SMEs with successful technology adoption..video
Skills for Success: Supporting business leaders with digital adoption – WEBINAR
New research from The Open University and Be the Business explores the skills necessary to encourage the successful adoption of technology in SMEs..research-report
The Be the Business Tech Adoption Lab – Insights Report
The Tech Adoption Lab helps small and medium-sized business owners overcome some of the biggest frustrations they face when buying technology: how to select and then successfully adopt and implement the right tech solution for their business..research-report
Be the Business Productive Business Index – Edition two Q1 2021
The Be the Business Productive Business Index is comprised of four clearly defined elements: performance of business; expected performance of business; actions taken to drive sustainable growth; and planned actions to drive sustainable growth..research-report
Be the Business Productive Business Index – Outlook for 2021
The first edition of a major new research programme to measure and track changes in UK micro and SME business performance and capabilities..research-report
Why 2020 can be the year that changed our tech trajectory
We worked with McKinsey & Company to undertake the largest ever analysis of the UK SME tech market and find out why it's not working..research-report
Recovery at risk
We examine a wave of coronavirus-driven innovation amongst SMEs – over three years of innovation has taken place in three months..research-report
Segmenting the business impact of coronavirus and where do firms go from here?
This paper sets out a four-part segmentation of where firms are today and four emerging themes for recovery..research-report