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11 simple steps to international expansion

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11 simple steps to international expansion

When your product or service is great and you have more or less conquered the local market, the next step for growth is to look at overseas expansion.

For many, the thought of opening a trading entity in a different country or relocating some of their employees may seem a daunting and laborious prospect, and the largest barrier to this growth opportunity is not knowing what to do.

Here is a handy little list of areas you will probably need to consider that will hopefully give you more confidence to take your first step on what could be a very exciting and rewarding journey.

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5 tips for efficiently managing a global supply chain

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5 tips for efficiently managing a global supply chain

In the face of competition and economic pressures, global supply chains are under more and more pressure to deliver their products at a greater value, on-time and at a lower cost.

But if one link in the supply chain is broken, (for example, a delayed payment or late shipment), the consequences to your business can be problematic.

So what can you do to better manage this process and reduce the downstream strain on your business?

Here are 5 tips for managing your global supply chain:

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10 things you should consider for your international assignment policy

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10 things you should consider for your international assignment policy

We wrote a piece recently entitled 10 things you should consider for your domestic relocation policy and we think it only fair to extend something similar to those of you dealing with, or just starting out, with international assignment policy.

There are 100 ways to carve a pumpkin and you don't have to do all of this - there are just a few pointers to get you thinking about how you could structure your policy and what you might include.

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Turn the red tape nightmare into a dream

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The Telegraph recently ran an article about the bureaucratic difficulties a family encountered when relocating to the US. Here's how the article started:

Having a baby, renting a house, hospital visits: everything is more tricky when you're an expat in America, as one reader found.
When you move abroad, you expect some bureaucratic befuddlement. You’re setting up from scratch in a country whose systems and procedures you don’t know.