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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...
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...
Level 1: Introductory 8 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...
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...
Level 1: Introductory 12 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...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Children’s perspectives on play
Education & Development

Children’s perspectives on play

...economically distressed urban environments. The impetus for the research arose from a wish to listen to the voices of children, given that most published writing about children’s play reflects adults’ perspectives on children’s play, rather than children’s views. Describing what play meant for her, seven-year-old Angelica seems to capture something essential not...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Supply chain sustainability
Money & Business

Supply chain sustainability

...economic and social concerns of stakeholders strategically and accord top management commitment to them. Apply the concept of value-added at both financial and operational levels. This will lead to a different sustainable supply chain philosophy. Consider end-to-end supply chains as value chains, and think about unexplored resource inefficiencies and opportunity costs at...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction
Digital & Computing

Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction

...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...