2,191 search results

Personal branding for career success Badge icon
Money & Business

Personal branding for career success

...manage your digital badges online from My OpenLearn. In addition, you can download and print your OpenLearn statement of participation - which also displays your Open University badge. ...Introduction and guidance: Introduction and guidance - Welcome to this free course, Personal branding for career success. The course lasts eight weeks, with approximately three hours of...
Understanding service improvement in healthcare
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding service improvement in healthcare

...Introduction - This free course, Understanding service improvement in healthcare, explores the idea of service improvement in healthcare. You will find it useful if you work in healthcare, or if you are involved in healthcare in some other way, for example as a volunteer, campaigner, relative or service user. The concept of service improvement is important because it is...
Investigating a murder with forensic psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Investigating a murder with forensic psychology

...Introduction to the case: Introduction - Welcome to Investigating a murder with forensic psychology. In this free course, you will take the role of a detective investigating a murder. Alongside two fictional detectives, you will work with the Senior Investigating Officer to solve a complex criminal case. You will explore the way that suspects are dealt with during a...
Smart Cities in the Making: Learning from Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

Smart Cities in the Making: Learning from Milton Keynes

...management and create new ways of living...A smart city uses digital data to improve the way that it's managed, and to support new opportunities or ways of life. In the following video, Professor Gillian Rose introduces research into how data and smart technologies are being combined with governance, policy and culture, and how this is producing the groundbreaking future...
Stefan Szymanski on the business of football
Money & Business

Stefan Szymanski on the business of football

...managers know that they can risk financial failure without risking the life of the club itself. This is a version of the ‘too big to fail’ problem that affects the banking industry. (Storm and Nielsen described this in 2012). UEFA has introduced the system of ‘Financial Fair Play’ to try to limit the spending of clubs. However, it is not clear that these...
Sustainable innovations in enterprises
Money & Business

Sustainable innovations in enterprises

...manage key aspects of their operations. Watch this introduction to KPIs and make your own notes about what steps this organisation takes to incorporate KPIs into its business. [MUSIC PLAYING] NARRATOR: Welcome to a typical organisation. Let's call it Furniturecorp and imagine that it's a long-established company that manufactures and market's chairs, tables, and other...
Do partnerships like John Lewis represent a better way of doing modern business?
Money & Business

Do partnerships like John Lewis represent a better way of doing modern business?

...management in the success of John Lewis and Waitrose? Are mutuality, co-ownership and business performance at odds? What is the significance of democracy within the JLP? And probably most significantly: what are the implications, for policy-makers and for economic agents of the JLP? This book is based on detailed knowledge of the JLP and its constituent business gathered...
Learn with Start Up Loans
Money & Business

Learn with Start Up Loans

...Management courses and qualifications [British Business Bank logo] Start Up Loans is committed to helping UK business owners realise their business dreams. Whether that’s making a business idea a reality, or helping new businesses to grow, through funding, mentoring and support, we’re here to help UK businesses get off the ground. With the experts at The Open...