Smarter Product Testing for SMEs: Prioritising What Matters
Monday 20th October 2025; 10:00 – 15:00 (The Open University, 110 Victoria Street, Belfast BT1 3GN)
What if your business could deliver reliable products, satisfy key stakeholder’s requirements, and speed up time-to-market—even with tighter budgets and timelines?
Dr Tahera, Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management at The Open University, has developed an innovative online tool to systematically prioritise testing activities, integrating the multiple stakeholder perspectives, including, Voice of the Customer, Voice of Regulation and Voice of Business.
Watch Dr Tahera introduce her tool
SMEs are invited to join us The Open University in Belfast where Dr Tahera will introduce the tool to help SMEs make better decisions about what product tests to run – cutting time-to-market, cost, and unnecessary effort. Light lunch included.
SMEs will:
- Try out the tool in a live demo
- Reflect on their own testing strategies
- Access to follow-up support
- Help shape future development of the tool and contribute to case studies
If you are unable to attend the workshop on the 20 October, OU are running 1:1 clinics in their Belfast Office on the 21st October until 2pm. Please note: These are limited and we encourage you to get in touch with Ireland-connected@open.ac.uk to arrange.