Manchester Business Survey – Downtown

A breath of fresh air entered the business support arena at this mornings launch of the Manchester Business Survey. Frank McKenna led a great debate, much of which focused around the support for growth businesses in the GM Region. At last we are getting to the real issues and I am so pleased that Scott Fletcher, Chairman and Founder of ANS has started to unearth the paucity and confusion that sits within the business support arena.

The number of quango’s that still exist is causing enormous confusion within the business world and if we are going to create more “ANS Types” then its time to raise the bar, leave delivery to the private sector and provide the much-needed hands on help for risk takers. In particular advice from people who have been there and done it, inputs that drive strategy into action, executes plans, embed innovation, provides route to market, delivers an introduction to trusted advisers not just fee chasers, develops winning teams and leaders and provides well crafted business plans that hit the mark with the finance community.

Interesting comments about the Growth Hub and relations of the Family.

Well done Frank for getting on the table this long overdue debate. Fingers crossed that Scott’s forays to getting it sorted will create the desired changes and he doesn’t get ground down by non value added debates driven by committee, sub committees, talking shops, steering groups……