07/12/2001

Foresight Centre opens at Queen’s University

Small businesses were given a boost on Thursday with the opening of a £1 million centre dedicated to the needs of small businesses at Queen’s University, Belfast.

Based in the Northern Ireland Technology Centre at Queen’s, The Foresight Business Process Centre will offer small businesses advice of best practice in business. It will also offer guidance of affordable Information and Communication Technology (ICT) solutions.

Centre staff will also give impartial advice and demonstrate a range of business solutions, which may lead to increase productivity and profitability for all sectors of local business and industry.

Centre Manager Colm Higgins said the centre aimed to assist SMEs maintain their competitive edge in an ICT-dominated global market. (MB)

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