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Groups and teamwork
Science, Maths & Technology

Groups and teamwork

...economic, the important point being that the goals are defined and the project is finite. (Association of Project Managers, 1993). Key features of these definitions are that a project has the following characteristics: A project is a unique undertaking: each one will differ from every other in some respect. Projects have specific objectives (or goals) to achieve. Projects...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Managing complexity: a systems approach
Society, Politics & Law

Managing complexity: a systems approach

...economic growth, as currently measured, and it is in their interests to see the road-building programme continue as this also increases the demand for cars. In the early 2000s English road building policies have, once more, been adopted as one solution to traffic congestion. Demand for new cars has also increased fuelled by a drop in their relative cost. One possible...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Design

...economically feasible, but a prototype of a jet engine is less so. The predictions will not always be entirely accurate because as we have seen, models are always incomplete in some respects. The models do not include all the factors which influence the design when in use. However, they are a help and guide in progressing through this stage of design. The models help...
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Level 1: Introductory 28 hrs
Fundamentals of accounting
Money & Business

Fundamentals of accounting

...economic events. Those involving the immediate exchange of cash, and those where payment is only made further down the road. It is vital for every organisation to track the money that comes in, and the money that goes out. This is just one purpose of accounting that you will learn about in fundamentals of accounting. Many people don't realise that accounting only needs...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Business models in strategic management
Money & Business

Business models in strategic management

...economic reasons. And so charities perform a very key role in delivering government services to contracts. So that's a very simple product star business model, a customer the government is paying for the charity to deliver services to a group of people who are getting it for free. I suppose you could call it multi-sided, but it's a kind of product model. But charities in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Systems diagramming
Digital & Computing

Systems diagramming

...economic ones as well as the technological ones. How successful: This diagram does successfully convey the message that there are many aspects to mobile telephony that need to be considered, but without knowing its purpose precisely it is hard to know how successful it has been in achieving that purpose. My response to Figure 9 Purpose: To show that signals can take more...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Building relationships with donors
Money & Business

Building relationships with donors

...Economic Forum in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence. Box 3: ‘Fundraising News: Children's Society pack aims for donor loyalty’, Third Sector, 5 February 2003. Reproduced with the permission of the copyright owner, Haymarket Business Publications Limited. Don't miss out: If reading this text has inspired you...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
People-centred designing
Science, Maths & Technology

People-centred designing

...economic and practical sense. The tool is made in two identical parts, therefore minimising production costs, joined with a pivot. The overall form has evolved over generations from crude forebears such as blacksmiths’ tools and acquired a certain elegance and wholeness in its appearance. The design looks as if it has reached an end point in the process of evolution...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs