Engaging Rural Micros for increased productivity

“该项目将使用各种方法来测试假设，轶事证据和理论，围绕最有效的干预措施，以提高农村微型企业的生产力，这构成了德文郡90%以上的农村经济。我们将利用研究结果设计一个试验，以提供通过这一过程设计的干预措施，然后将成为进一步资助投标的主题。我们将利用我们自己和合作伙伴以前的经验和其他研究，总结业务支持和资金交付的良好做法。我们想了解为什么农村微型企业难以参与;他们的驱动力和障碍是什么;我们可以做些什么来让他们更容易、更轻松地提高生产力。企业通常有比他们能科普的更多的工作，所以我们如何帮助他们把这个市场潜力转化为生产力？根据经验，我们认为，农村微型企业可能需要更基本的支持，使他们能够克服变革的障碍，抓住机会，如：支持、资金、现代商业做法;考虑新的工作方式的时间;技术和学徒。我们的业务支持和创新团队以创新和屡获殊荣的新结构中的贸易标准为基础，并代表我们的成人社会护理同事提供市场支持。我们希望利用TS同事的经验，他们每天都与这些类型的企业接触，以真正了解我们如何才能最好地支持农村微型企业。2017年SW农村生产力报告指出，德文郡的经济有四个过度代表性的部门，生产率低于全国平均水平，并且由难以接触的微型企业主导，这些微型企业不参与支持。这些将包括我们的测试部门：* 微型制造商 * 微型对齐贸易（例如建筑，市场交易商，生活方式企业）* 微型旅游，包括：住宿，食品和零售 * 微型健康/社会护理业务我们将使用研究和审查相结合;个人和数字调查;焦点小组和深入的案例研究，以了解农村微型企业如何工作，并测试我们的假设和理论。然后，我们将与非正式合作伙伴一起设计一种干预措施，利用我们所学到的知识来设计最有效的干预措施，以提高农村微型企业的生产力，并增加他们对各种实践，技术，支持和资金的需求。希望我们能再次大到业务基础来尝试这种干预。"

"This project will use a variety of methodologies to test assumptions, anecdotal evidence and theories around the most effective interventions for increasing productivity in rural micro enterprises, which make up over 90% of Devon's rural economy. We will use the results to devise a trial for delivering the intervention designed through this process, which will then be the subject of a further funding bid.We will use our own and partners' previous experience and other research to encapsulate good practice in business support and funding delivery. We want to understand why rural micros are hard to engage; what their drivers and barriers are; and what we can do to make it easier and less daunting for them to increase productivity. Often businesses have far more work than they can cope with so how can we help them to convert this market potential to productivity? From experience, we think that rural micro's may need support at a much more basic level to enable them to get past their barriers to change and taking up opportunities such as: support, funding, modern business practices; time to consider new ways of working; technologies and apprenticeships.Our Business Support & Innovation Team is based with Trading Standards in an Innovative and award winning new structure, as well as undertaking market support on behalf of our adult social care colleagues. We want to utilise the experience of TS colleagues who have daily contact with these types of business to really understand how we can best support rural micros.The SW Rural Productivity report 2017 states that Devon's economy has four overrepresented sectors, less productive than the national average and dominated by hard to reach micro's which don't engage with support. These will comprise our test sectors:* Micro Manufacturers* Micro aligned trades (e.g. construction, market traders, lifestyle businesses)* Micro Tourism including: accommodation, food and retail* Micro Health / Social Care businessesWe will use a combination of research and review; personal and digital surveys; focus groups and in-depth case studies to understand how rural micros work and test our assumptions and theories. We will then devise an intervention with informal partners, which utilises what we have learned to design the most effective intervention to increase productivity in rural micros and their take up of a variety of practice, technology, support and funding. It is hoped that we can big again to business basics to trial this intervention."