The nationwide growth programme for small and medium-sized production enterprises is to be implemented over a three-year period. The project aims to strengthen the productivity and competitiveness of the participating production companies. The activities of the present application; the appropriate region of Zealand and Central Jutland will be:Growth check: 110 growth checks will be carried out.The growth check will focus on making the company’s growth ambition concrete and explicit, as well as identifying which areas the company should focus on. This gives the company, through a growth check, a qualified dialogue that focuses on development needs and growth barriers. The growth check is a dialogue-based analysis with the company’s management, which must result in the company drawing up an action plan that addresses a strategic prioritisation of various initiatives to improve the company’s competitiveness, productivity and increase opportunities to realise the growth potential.Output of growth check will be an action plan describing growth potentials and challenges as essential elements of the company’s development and growth strategy. The professional benefits of the growth check will differ from one company to another, but it is common to develop an action plan that includes a strategic prioritisation of future initiatives that can strengthen the company’s productivity and competitiveness and support development and growth over the next 3-5 years. Growth promise is an individual programme that aims to help the company realise the action plan prepared by the growth check consultant.Output of the growth promise will be that, over a period of time, individual advice is given on how the company realises its growth potential. Here, advice focuses on the topics or parts thereof contained in the Growth Check action plan. A number of specific activities will be carried out in the Region of Zealand; region Zealand has special challenges in relation to production companies with growth ambitions/potentials. Special efforts are therefore required in the region, in order to achieve ambitious targets and to meet the challenges of the region. The
