Date: Thursday 28th January 2027
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Location: TBC, Rochdale
Cost:
£30 Non Member +VAT
Build It, Buy It or Partner? Making Smarter Decisions as Your Business Grows
Event:
Build It, Buy It or Partner? Making Smarter Decisions as Your Business Grows
As a business grows, it cannot build every capability, employ every specialist or pursue every opportunity alone. Business owners regularly face decisions about whether to invest internally, bring in external expertise or work with another organisation, and getting that decision right can affect cost, capacity and how quickly the business can move.
This event will explore how leaders can make those choices more strategically. The conversation will look at where businesses should protect and develop their own capabilities, when external expertise can provide a faster or more effective route, and where partnerships can help businesses take on larger or more complex opportunities. It will also consider the commercial realities: protecting client relationships, maintaining quality, agreeing responsibilities and making sure any arrangement delivers genuine value.
Attendees should leave with a practical way to assess future opportunities and the confidence to look beyond “Can we do this ourselves?” to ask “What is the smartest way for our business to do this?”
About The Speakers
Claire-Marie Boggiano
STRIDE Facilitator & Leadership Coach
Claire-Marie is a Chartered Engineer holding an MBA from Manchester Business School. Claire-Marie is a guest lecturer in Change Management and Entrepreneurship at Manchester Business School. She is the alumni lead for MBS Women Leading in Business group and regularly hosts the Institute of Directors Women’s Forum in the North West. Claire-Marie is a committee member of the IoD Manchester and has recently commenced working with EEF The Manufacturing Organisation to raise the profile of Women in Engineering. Claire-Marie is an expert in Change Management for many years and delivers the Day 3 workshop of the STRIDE programme – Oakridge’s 6 month leadership programme for female middle management development. Her workshop focuses on the managing business aspect. This is the final element of the programme and supports women attending to learn more about how they can impact their organisation, bring others with them and to become a role model for others. Claire-Marie is a member of the Manchester City Council International Women’s Day Steering Group. To any challenge Claire-Marie brings energy, focus and action. Her core skills include “breaking eggs”, “building gladiators” and “making connections”. Claire-Marie believes organisations and teams succeed by working with the imagination and talents of their people.