We believe in collaboration, and regularly undertake
assignments with partner organisations. This allows us to
complement our experience and resources with expertise
specific to a particular study. Our partners include:
Centre for Urban and Regional Studies,
University of Birmingham
CURS is part of the University of Birmingham’s Business
School. Its focus is to blend knowledge of academic study
with practical research, and specifically to develop
effective research tools and robust sampling techniques.
CURS has worked extensively in the West Midlands including
in the development and evaluation of major business support
programmes. Recent work has included follow-up research
into the effectiveness of the implementation of the Rover
Task Force strategy and an evaluation of the West Midlands’
Accelerate programme.
AP Benson Ltd
AP Benson is a management consulting firm based in
Oxfordshire and with offices in Cardiff, Reading and
London. The firm specialises in helping clients to improve
organisational and business performance through
organisational change, process improvement, financial
management and programme & project evaluation.
The firm has assisted organisations, including the Welsh
Assembly Government and its SME business clients, in many
fields to generate business efficiencies through strategy
development, business process improvement, finance
troubleshooting, change management and the better use of
IT.
Midlands Environmental Business Company
Ltd
MEBC is a not-for-profit business networking organisation
for companies interested or specialising in the
Environmental Technologies market and the implementation of
Sustainable Development principles. It is also a branch of
the Business Council for Sustainable Development (BCSD)
which is the UK arm of the World Business Council for
Sustainable Development.
Established in 1992, MEBC is a member of Advantage West
Midlands’ Business Cluster Group for Environmental
Technologies and provides advice and guidance to a range of
policy makers and statutory organisations in the West
Midlands.