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Call to NE businesses to improve competitiveness in 2008

North East businesses are being urged to improve their competitiveness as some experts predict that 2008 could be a particularly challenging year.

Robert Macleod, Managing Director of Assessment North East, the region’s Investors in People Centre, wants companies to consider joining the 2000 companies which have already taken up IIP.

Mr Macleod said: “Northern businesses show a very real enthusiasm for IIP and use it very successfully to improve their performance in today’s highly competitive market. If we are at the start of a particularly challenging year for business then companies really do need to look at ways of remaining competitive and IIP can do that for them.”

In the current financial year, reportedly 141 new North East companies with more than 37,000 employees in total have already taken up IIP.

Mr Macleod said: “Businesses are recognising that, whatever their size or area of operation - from engineering to design to education - working with IIP brings them many benefits. They include growth, improved competitiveness, better staff retention rates, improved communications and a healthier company culture. Improved performance is vitally important not only for the individual business but also for the region’s future.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .