Data-driven performance in action

Futures By Design (FBD) is a three-year project funded by the EU North Sea Region Programme (NSRP). EFEC Director of Strategy Andrew Thomson is the originator, designer and team-builder who brought the 12 partners together from five countries to create the FBD team and co-ordinate the project’s operation. 

The partners are major universities and business-service organisations.

The project is now delivering the goods – SMEs across the regions making improved innovation, growth and productivity.  

The projects help the SME develop capacity for using data to drive performance and cover a whole rage of things, from increasing sales through understanding what data tells you, to CRM systems, to better securing data.



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