Management Knowledge Transfer Partnership (mKTP)

Management Knowledge Transfer Partnership is a dynamic partnership between a business, Staffordshire University and a recently qualified graduate.

The focus of a mKTP is specifically on delivering human-centred and/or technology - enabled, strategic change.

Spanning all key business functions including marketing to IT, creativity to strategic management; HR to employment relations; finance to logistics.

mKTPs can be in areas such as:

• Alternative business models/business agility
• Identifying new opportunities and revenue streams
• Entrepreneurial thinking and ambidexterity
• Benchmarking, best practice, data analysis, KPIs
• Business scale-up practices/value creation
• Organisational/behavioural/cultural change management
• Succession/continuity planning/coaching and mentoring
• Improving efficiency, business processes and productivity
• Reshoring/remote working practices/new supply chains
• Executive leadership, strategic thinking and decision making
• Business process improvement and professionalisation

Who can apply?

• Growth-oriented businesses with up to 500 employees, who are eager to build and execute their ambitious management strategy by introducing better management practices.
• Businesses seeking significant productivity gains, recognising that good management and leadership can help deliver this.
• Businesses looking to up-skill their people and make step-change improvements in productivity by deploying industry-leading practices and innovation processes.

What to expect

• Up to 67% funded depending on the size of your business.
• mKTPs enable you to adopt and adapt expertise to bring about people-focused, strategic change to help your business succeed.
• Access high-calibre graduates.