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Money & Business
How is identity data creating headaches for large companies?
Increasingly the costs and risks of holding data are turning toxic for businesses. Bhargav Mitra and Robert McCausland explain why.
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Society, Politics & Law
How Trump tweets
Writing shortly after Donald Trump assumed office, Dr John Jewell observed that a new role hadn't changed the President's social media behaviour.
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Money & Business
Is Huawei's low-key approach the secret of its success?
A visit to the Huawei campus finds a company open to naps in the office but against bombast. It's a formula that appears to be working.
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Money & Business
Banks as utilities and the future of payments
In a wide-ranging discussion, Ecobank's Edward George shares his personal views about the future of banks, and digital strategy across African markets.
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Digital & Computing
Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction
Life is full of risk. In this free course, Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction, 'risk' describes the probability and consequences of harm or, at worst, disaster. Risk management involves many stakeholders and integrated management systems help to ensure that safety, quality, environmental and business risks ...
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Digital & Computing
A taste of digital management from OpenLearn
Interested in business management, technology management or computing and IT? You're in the right place - here's just a taste of materials you can explore here, now, for free on OpenLearn.
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Money & Business
Why is the iPhone X a thousand-dollar gamble?
As it launches a new model, Apple is hoping that its brand will persuade enough people to dig deep into their pockets. Loizos Heracleous explores Apple's thinking.
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Languages
Can I use 'we' and 'I' in my essay? Introducing corpus linguistics
An introduction to using a corpus to get answers in linguistics.
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Languages
Using digital tools to save languages
Subhashish Panigrahi explains what he learned while documenting the language of his own community.
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Science, Maths & Technology
How network science can unravel Al Capone's criminal associates
In new research which studies the social relationships of organized crime in Chicago in the 1920s, Chris M. Smith and Andrew V. Papachristos were able to take advantage ofthe availability of thousands of notes and documents on Al Capone’s criminal network. By applying network analysis to the criminal relationships in Capone’s gangs they find ...
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Science, Maths & Technology
What happens to the poorest in a cashless society?
The race to contactless transactions and virtual currency puts those with least at the most risk, warns Dana Kornberg
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Languages
What can emoji teach us about human civilization?
Is emoji another example of the dumbing-down of our language and culture or is there a more educational purpose to the little pictures used to communicate?