Understand business activity.
Build a clear picture.
Strengthen strategy and delivery.
Effective economic strategy depends on clear, timely evidence. Growth Flag provides a live, location based view of business activity, helping policymakers, analysts and strategy teams see what is really happening across their local economy.
Using continuously refreshed business data, Growth Flag moves the informing of strategy beyond static datasets and historic reports. It supports the development of practical economic strategies, sector plans and policy frameworks that reflect how businesses are actually operating and changing on the ground. This helps decision-makers set priorities with confidence and ensure policy is based on real world conditions.
See which sectors and specific businesses are growing, where new types of businesses are appearing, and how business activity is changing over time. This helps you spot new opportunities and challenges early and focus support on parts of the economy where you can make the biggest impact.
Understand what your local economy does well, where it is vulnerable, and where there are gaps in supply chains or key services. Explore particular areas, groups companies, or specific businesses. This supports better planning around skills, infrastructure, resilience and business support.
Track real business activity to see how companies respond to funding programmes, new policies or major investments. This makes it easier to assess what is working, what is not, and where changes may be needed.
Use consistent, current business data to support Industrial Strategy implementation, Local Growth Plans and investment proposals. Growth Flag helps provide a strong, credible evidence base that reflects what is happening now and what comes next, not just what happened several years ago.
Latest uses in Evidence, Strategy and Policy
Using Growth Flag for Evidence, Strategy and Policy results in clearer priorities, and greater confidence that strategy reflects real economic conditions on the ground. The Growth Flag platform and Growth Flag data is used to deliver a variety of strategy and evidence projects. Check out some of the published projects below.
