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Battered, Hurt, ...Shutting? Why has BHS struggled on the high street?
Money & Business

Battered, Hurt, ...Shutting? Why has BHS struggled on the high street?

...manage the business, BHS failed in this and fell behind. The fastest growing retailers in the UK today are identified by their omni-channel approach, innovative use of physical stores, clever deployment of emerging technologies and international strategies. Whether large or small, success comes from understanding and engaging consumers and meeting their needs; things that...
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Meet the OU experts behind 'Hospital'
Health, Sports & Psychology

Meet the OU experts behind 'Hospital'

...manage resource demands that don’t stretch sufficiently to accommodate all needs; you will meet patients – many with complex care needs who are faced with uncertainty about treatment; you will see staff frustrated by the constraints they are working within yet, you will see how committed they are to doing their best for patients and for their organisation. Hospitals...
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Using sources: Considering breadth as well as depth
Education & Development

Using sources: Considering breadth as well as depth

...management (CRM) or Marketing information systems (MIS), so we have the ability increasingly to source valuable information from these systems. If you don’t have direct access to query such systems in your organisation, you may well be able to make a request though your Information manager. If we take this a step further, we can begin to understand how to categorise...
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Porn licensing isn't the answer
Digital & Computing

Porn licensing isn't the answer

...managed by people capable of devising alternate methods to deliver it that they’d have little trouble circumnavigating any future rules. For parents, part of the problem is how you manage your children’s use of the internet. You can’t hover over their shoulder every time they go online but leaving them exposed to all that is out there is an appealing prospect too....
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Music and mental health: the parallels between Victorian asylum treatments and modern social prescribing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Music and mental health: the parallels between Victorian asylum treatments and modern social prescribing

...management”, which placed a focus on using employment, diet, surroundings and recreational activities as forms of therapy. When state-run asylums were first introduced in Britain in the early 19th century, music soon became included as a form of moral management to distract patients outside of working hours and keep them occupied. Both music and dance were efficient...
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Getting to the heart of it: investigating side effects of anti-cancer treatments
Science, Maths & Technology

Getting to the heart of it: investigating side effects of anti-cancer treatments

...managed in the clinic? In the clinic, cardiotoxicity is managed by modifying treatment regimens, promoting regular exercise and a healthy diet, and by closely monitoring individuals that may be at risk of developing treatment-related cardiotoxicity. Patients can be monitored through blood tests to detect biomarkers of abnormal heart function, and through assessing how...
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Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change

...Project Benny Peiser interview Key RH: = Roger Harrabin, interviewer BP: = Dr Benny Peiser, The Global Warming Policy Foundation, participant RH: Dr Peiser, thank you very much for agreeing to be interviewed by us for the BBC documentaries and the Open University. Can I start with the first question that we’re asking all of our interviewees, which is when did you first...
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Business communication: writing a SWOT analysis
Money & Business

Business communication: writing a SWOT analysis

...management. You can find out more about Open University courses and qualifications, tuition fees and funding options by visiting our online prospectus....Business communication: writing a SWOT analysis: Introduction - Welcome to this free course, Business communication: writing a SWOT analysis, which is designed to develop your writing skills for business. You will be...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs