Personalised assistance for your business
Experienced staff can offer guidance on starting out in business, business development plans, overcoming barriers in your business, achieving your goals and general advice.

If you need help finding contacts, suppliers and partners, Venture Taranaki will help to identify the right information or refer you to the appropriate parties.

Our mobile team can meet with you anywhere at your convenience to discuss your individual business needs.

Business Toolkits
A raft of material is available to assist with business planning, marketing, financial forecastng and many other areas. Download the full Business Toolkit.

Research and Market Intelligence
Venture Taranaki can offer an array of market intelligence which is available to help you shape your direction, plan your business future, and identify opportunities and projects.

Enterprise News - an electronic newsletter providing news, events information, information on economic development support and entrepreneurial activity.

Signposting and Referrals
If you need help finding contacts, suppliers and partners, Venture Taranaki will help to identify the right information or refer you to the appropriate parties.

Management Focus 
Lifting productivity is the key challenge facing New Zealand businesses today.  Working longer hours is not the answer. Instead, we need to work smarter rather than harder. That sounds easy but how does a business actually work smarter?  It is clear that a lack of management skills at all levels is one of the biggest brakes on business in this country. 

Management Focus is a response to that skills gap.  A group of leading private and public sector organisations have developed a set of free resources, tools and case studies to help lift management capability.  Economic Development Agencies, including Venture Taranaki, have played a role in this process.

The resources are now available on the Management Focus website. The website is practical, focused and useful for companies of all shapes and sizes in every sector. 

The on-line tools, including the Management Capability Profile (MCP) tool and the Management Improvement Tool for Entrepreneurs (MITE), help managers assess where they are right now and develop concrete action plans which will help them direct their efforts for the best results. 

The website also has a growing range of case studies and profiles of the EDANZ Regional Champions.  Many of the insights in the case studies can be applied to any workplace with a little creativity. Management Focus is designed to make managers think about how they do business and look for constant improvements.