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The Business Centre is a part of Birmingham College and managed by prominent professional individuals in the field of Management, Accountancy, Law, Property and Estate, Higher Education, Commerce and Industry.

The Business Centre is an independent, professional unit specialising in the promotion of business and commercial links between the UK and India. It aims:

• To promote UK-Indian companies, products and projects.
• To create strategic partnerships with business and industry, by providing a range of high quality consultancy and research services.
• To facilitating trade relations and economic co-operation between the UK and Indian economies.
• To forge linkages with Connecticut businesses and industries to integrate and assist in the formation of joint ventures, businesses and Connecticut businesses.
• To provide direction, confidence and skills for business.
• To analyzes economic, business and market trends in the UK and India and makes this information available to organizations such as government departments, corporations and trade bodies.
• To create a network of unrivalled contacts within government agencies, research organizations and academic institutions.
• To continue dialogue and close working relationships enables us to provide authoritative, up-to-date information and insights about business.

Consultancy

Providing specialist advice concerning various aspects of the economy and trade, particularly in the wider regional and global market context. The Centre concentrates on the needs of both firms in dealing with their counterparts by providing consultancy, research and advanced management development programmes

Research

• Conducting in-depth research studies on economy, finance and trade, including topical issues and different industry sectors. Through the Business Centre's extensive network of research and academic associates, we aim to be recognised for the quality of our research, particularly analyses concerning the effects of policy changes and trends in economic performance. Research activities are both academic and practitioner-orientated. Research can help clients develop a better understanding of complicated business phenomena and facilitate policy formulation.

Customised Courses

If one of our standard courses does not meet your needs in full then we should still be able to help you. Having the expertise of a large number of specialists, we can construct customised training to meet your specific needs. This process will, however, take a little while and there may be added costs depending on the volume of design and development work needed. More details, please contact the centre.

Executive Education

The Centre will design a program that fits your constraints in timing, cost, curriculum/ credit requirements, site preferences, and learning styles of your students. We can draw upon extensive academic and real-world resources in Britain to give your students a formative experience with international business in Britain that will enhance their careers and their satisfaction with studying in your business program.

Britain Business Field Study can be a free-standing program, or a component of a larger regional, comparative program on business. Programs can range from several days to several weeks. We can arrange high-end or more modest accommodations depending on you university's budget for field study. Our programs include dialogue sessions with leading experts, business executives, financial journalists and government officials. We can arrange on-site visits to corporate and government offices as well as production and marketing facilities of a wide range of enterprises. Your students will receive first-hand accounts of the business environment in Britain, reflections by "Britain hands" about winning and losing business strategies, and informed analysis from the leading researchers of business developments in Britain. Schedules typically include panel discussions, on-site visits, luncheons, private tours, dining, and recreational and cultural activities.

Field studies in Britain can be crafted for the executive MBA, the regular MBA or for undergraduate programs in management studies.

The future

We continue to grow. We plan to recruit more specialists, consultants, academic staff, develop our business centres and offer more programmes. We also seek to build stronger links with government, industry, pioneer further collaborative research and widen our executive education services.

We invite you to work with us. We have provided a summary of what we currently offer; we have the will, the expertise, the resources and the ambition to do more.

Please contact the centre for more information on how to work with us.