23 August 2022
Be the Business is on a mission to boost productivity among the UK’s booming small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector. SMEs account for 99.9 per cent of the UK’s business ecosystem, so improving productivity in these organisations has huge implications for the country’s economy as a whole.
Helping to drive Be the Business’ productivity mission is the knowledge and support of the world’s highest performing businesses, including Meta.
Having first collaborated in 2020 as a response to the coronavirus pandemic, Be the Business has now strengthened its ties with Meta to deliver a range of productivity-enhancing support to SMEs throughout the UK.
By working together, Be the Business and Meta have engaged over 650,000 business leaders with transformational business resources, provided five expert mentors for Be the Business’ flagship mentoring programme and delivered an effective digital adoption campaign – key to business growth – to over 17m business leaders.
Similarly, Meta have benefited from Be the Business’ frontline knowledge of SMEs, which has provided insights and opportunities to engage with this ecosystem.
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