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Stakeholders in marketing and finance
Money & Business

Stakeholders in marketing and finance

...system there is usually no choice of products or suppliers if an employee wants to be paid. There are exceptions, however. For example, all IT systems within an organisation may be provided by the IT department but the internal customer or consumer may be able to influence the design. In addition, while we can see clearly who is paying for a family’s ice creams, holiday...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Digital thinking tools for better decision making Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Digital thinking tools for better decision making

...system can represent all numbers, and it is much easier for electronics to deal with. Moving from mechanical parts to electronics was a major breakthrough. Since their invention, digital devices have become much faster, more reliable, smaller and cheaper than their mechanical predecessors. However, digital technology is more than just arithmetic. This is because 0s and 1s...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Manufacturing
Science, Maths & Technology

Manufacturing

...system and will describe some of the many different ways of making products. We will illustrate how the required properties of the materials in a product influence the choice of manufacturing process used...How are designs turned into products? What resources, materials and methods are used and what set of activities goes under the heading of 'manufacturing'? This free...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
The Enlightenment
History & The Arts

The Enlightenment

...system of government. The kingdom is more than three hundred leagues across; it is divided into thirty provinces. The reverend fathers own everything, and the natives nothing. It is a masterpiece of reason and justice. (Voltaire, 1981, p. 88; trans. Lentin) This French Enlightenment tone and temper – detached, ironic and at times wickedly or darkly humorous – should...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Sustainable innovations in enterprises
Money & Business

Sustainable innovations in enterprises

...system that provides for quality of life while renewing the environment and its resources. It is important to take the long-term view of how our actions effect future generations and make sure we don’t deplete resources or cause pollution at rates faster than the earth is able to renew them. The original definition of sustainable development is usually considered to be:...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Making creativity and innovation happen
Money & Business

Making creativity and innovation happen

...System 1 and System 2 thinking: System 1 operates automatically and quickly, with little or no effort and no sense of voluntary control System 2 allocates attention to the effortful mental activities that demand it, including complex computations (Kahneman, 2011, pp.20–21) Figure 4 Daniel Kahneman System 1, in other words, is your intuition at work. Connson Chou Locke...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Working with our environment: an introduction
Nature & Environment

Working with our environment: an introduction

...systems, absorbs ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun and prevents it from reaching the surface of the planet, where it can be harmful to life. Sherwood Rowland was one of the two scientists awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery, in the early 1970s, of the potential dangers of CFCs. One night, while he was working on the problem, his wife asked him how his work was...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
Society, Politics & Law

Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency

...system (biological approach). People who scored highly on the E scale (extraverts) had low arousal levels, therefore they would seek arousal from their environment, such as socialising and thrill-seeking activities. Whereas those who had low scores on the E scale (introverts) already had an over-aroused nervous system and therefore would seek out situations that minimised...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs