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Crossover Business Labs
Tuesday 02nd February, 2010
Crossover is now inviting owners and senior managers of companies from the North West, North East and Yorkshire to apply for places on our pilot Business Lab, to be held in Leeds on the 25/26 February.
There are three core objectives of the Business Lab programme:
• to assist creative companies located in the North of England acquire the skills, capabilities and assets required to do business effectively and to achieve growth in the converging digital marketplace
• to share understanding of the characteristics and challenges of the emerging media market, the challenges to and opportunities for growth
• to foster collaboration between companies within and across the regions.
Who is the Crossover Business Lab for?
The Crossover Business Labs are designed for small to medium sized creative businesses based in the North of England. They are particularly suitable for companies operating in the audio-visual industries (operating in the film, tv, web, mobile, games and animation sectors) seriously interested in corporate growth by exploring new business models, extending beyond their current markets and developing new partnerships and collaborations
What will it involve?
Topics covered in the Business Lab will include:
• New business models: the pace of change and disruption in the media industries suggests that only the agile will flourish. How does a company break into new markets and generate revenue from new sources?
• Frameworks for collaboration: modelling a framework for understanding your business and its place in cross-platform working: developing ideas, making them happen, structuring relationships with partners.
• Strategic Planning: how might your business approach work across platforms and where are the gaps? How might your enterprise develop a structure that will allow for growth in new markets?
• Getting outside help: how do you find the right people to act as ‘jungle guides’ in new markets and to provide appropriate financial, legal, management advice?
• Access to finance: sources of investment for corporate as well as project development
The Lab will comprise a blend of presentation, workshop activity and round table discussion. There will also be some opportunity for one-to-one consultation with visiting experts.
Who will be leading the Lab?
Confirmed mentors and speakers on the Business Lab will include expert facilitators from the Crossover team and leading professionals: people who have built successful creative enterprises, specialist lawyers and accountants, representatives of trade bodies. They include Frank Boyd and Grant Keir from Crossover, fund manager Michelle Cooper (North Star Equity), producer and entrepreneur Tom Gutteridge (Standing Stone Productions), IP Lawyer Richard Taylor (DLA Piper), investment advisor and corporate strategist John Sanderson (JFWS), and business growth strategist Mark Fenwick (Business Assessment Ltd). For full bios and updates on speakers please click here.
What will it cost?
There is no cost for participation in the Business Lab apart from travel and accommodation, if required.
Where will it be?
The Lab will be held at:
Aspire
2 Infirmary Street
Leeds, LS1 2JP
0113 236 8368
Who should apply?
The Crossover Business Lab is designed for owner/directors of companies working in the audio-visual and entertainment sectors in the North East, the North West and in Yorkshire.
Apply online at: http://internationaldocumentaryfestivalsheffieldltd.cmail3.com/t/y/l/olikui/mlrtuuky/r
For more information, please contact mailto:tom@sidf.co.uk%20
Deadline for applications: Monday 15 February 2010.
Funded by Northern Film & Media, Screen Yorkshire, Northwest Vision + Media, and Northern Net.