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Dominic Ball testimonial
Education & Development

Dominic Ball testimonial

...Business Management Degree with The Open University. He explains why it’s important other current players start planning for the future, plus how the support of the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) helped...Dominic recalls his upbringing and how his parents influenced him: "Mum and dad trained as teachers, so I was always pushed in school. Even when football...
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Peter Tuddenham On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Society, Politics & Law

Peter Tuddenham On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...Business from Regis University in Denver, Colorado in 1982. He went on to study Systems Design at Saybrook University in California with Bela Banathy. As an executive in residence at Arizona State University Center for Ethics he studied the deregulation of the telephone industry. He was a guest faculty at the US Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania from 1988-1990...
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Understanding organisational value
Money & Business

Understanding organisational value

...business functions, including operations management, financial accounting, and business intelligence identify new types of value that are ‘human-centred’ and challenge traditional economic value assumptions...Understanding organisational value: 1 Understanding organisational value - Creating value is an important part of any and all organisations. You will learn the...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
The Harrison Centre for Social Mobility
Education & Development

The Harrison Centre for Social Mobility

...Business School to create a dedicated centre of excellence in financial education. The Harrison Centre opened its first dedicated learning facility in 2018, based at the Beacon of Light sports and education centre in Sunderland. The Harrison Centre works with hundreds of young people annually across Wearside and the surrounding areas, providing the tuition and training...
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Can you harness intrapreneurship?
Money & Business

Can you harness intrapreneurship?

...business instead?...These questions are discussed in the Intrapreneurship Series – a series of four webinars from The Open University (OU), hosted by innovation advisor and engineer, Josh Valman. The four sessions look at the what intrapreneurs are and how the right culture can be created to allow them to solve problems in the same fashion as an entrepreneur and...
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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?

...business being out-competed by smarter, nimbler rivals over a number of years. BHS, formerly British Home Stores, became a town centre stalwart after opening its first shop in Brixton back in 1928. More recently, the brand has been struggling. Sir Philip Green bought it in 2000 for £200m but sold it last year for £1 and wrote off some of its debt. That alone hints at...
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Why do some cities thrive?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why do some cities thrive?

...business sectors, its jobs. From the moment of its ‘birth’ in 1967 as one of the country’s ‘new towns’, Milton Keynes was planned as a whole. Over the past three decades, it has out-smarted every other city in the UK in terms of its annual average growth rate of output and employment. Meanwhile, most of Britain’s old industrial cities – Newcastle, Sheffield,...
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Climate change: transitions to sustainability
Nature & Environment

Climate change: transitions to sustainability

...business and NGO interests, are tangible expressions of this political globalisation. Globalisation sees longer (and usually more complex) chains of cause and effect established. It is often pointed out that we don't have well-established institutions of global governance. They certainly can't yet claim to match the pace and extent of economic globalisation....
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs