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Introduction to business agility
Money & Business

Introduction to business agility

...data exceptions/outage, increased mean time between failures and reduced time to recovery. A wide range of metrics is available to demonstrate quality trends, depending on your context. (V)alue is unique; it is an outcome of value to your organisation, and it is your purpose. It could be financial; it could be maintaining public safety; it could be charitable. As the...
Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Learning from sport burnout and overtraining Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning from sport burnout and overtraining

...analysis of the interview data resulted in the construction of five non-fictional short stories highlighting the emotions underlying the coaches’ experiences of burnout. The coaches described a variety of emotions including anxiety, anger, apathy and dejection, which had negative implications upon their well-being and coaching practice. Emotions were linked to the three...
How to be a critical reader
Languages

How to be a critical reader

...analysis of a text...How to be a critical reader: 1.3 Thinking about what a text is saying and doing - When you read critically it is important to ask yourself first what the text is saying and then what it is doing: for example, how it develops an argument. This is called the function of a text. A part of a text can also have a function. Understanding what a text and its...
Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Equity – law and idea
Society, Politics & Law

Equity – law and idea

...analysis that determine, among other things, whether or not those who engage in opportunistic behaviour are able to secure or evade justice...Equity – law and idea: 3.2 Laissez-faire capitalism - Like equity, capitalism cannot be fully explained simply by reference to something called ‘capitalism’. It is far more nuanced than that. The type of capitalism referred to...
Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Marketing communications in the digital age
Money & Business

Marketing communications in the digital age

...data...Marketing communications in the digital age: 2.1 Macro-model of communication - The macro-model of communication encompasses 10 elements. It describes the movement of an idea (such as a marketing message) from the sender (marketer or a company acting on their behalf), through encoding (content creation), into a message transmitted through a communications channel...
Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!
Money & Business

Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!

...Analysis in this way helps us to understand how we might improve the performance of the task in some way. Let us use the simple example of preparing a sandwich to illustrate analysis. Using the process approach we can analyse the job as having the inputs, sub-processes and outputs seen in Figure 3. [Figure 3] Figure 3 An example transformation model In Figure 3, you can...
Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Design

...analysis. [Sketch of the Aston Martin V12 Vanquish used at the conceptual stage and an image of the finished vehicle] Figure 6 (a) Sketch drawing used at the conceptual stage of the Aston Martin V12 Vanquish (b) The finished vehicle Ian Callum and the V12 Vanquish Designer Ian Callum, originally from Dumfries in Scotland, studied at the Glasgow School of Art and at the...
Level 1: Introductory 28 hrs
Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere
Science, Maths & Technology

Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere

...analysis of motion paved the way for Isaac Newton's work. He used one of the first telescopes to discover the four largest of Jupiter's satellites and the phases of Venus. His consequent support for the theory that the Earth moves around the Sun led to his imprisonment for heresy in 1633. All the giant planets have satellites. Jupiter's four largest satellites were...
Level 2: Intermediate 17 hrs