In our first meeting we will work with you to try and identify where your needs are in the development of your business. Some, none, or all of these might apply to you in your current situation, the process is to identify which do apply and how to tackle them. Click on each heading to find out more about the topic.

This is only done after an initial discussion about what it is you want to do.

Download a blank Needs Analysis here if you feel as though you can go through a self assessment process.

Creative Launchpad does not give professional legal and financial advice, but we know how to engage with the professional service sector so that you get the right support at the right time in the development of your business.

Topics of discussion include:

01 Company Status

02 Business Planning

03 Employing People

04 Finances

05 Industry Specific

06 Legal

07 Operations

08 Business Performance

09 Product/Service Development

10 Public Funding

11 Sales/Marketing Activities

12 Space/Location

13 Personal Skills Development

14 Information/Communication Technologies

We look at the need for skills development on specialist software platforms for web, graphics, moving image, music and business operations depending on your sector:

Design Software: Illustrator, Quark, Photoshop, In-design etc.
Web design software/language: Dreamweaver, XML, My SQL, Action Scripting for Flash, ASP.net, PHP
Music Software: ProTools, CuBase, Logic, Reason
Video Editing: Final Cut Pro, Adobe Avid, Flash
Animation/3D: After Effects (TV, Web design, graphics, animation, interactive media, moving images), Maya (Animation), 3D Studio Max (Animation), Softimage (Web design, animation), Cambirige animation (Animation)
Business Software: QuickBooks, SAGE, ACT!, Goldmine, MS Office Suite,