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Technology, innovation and management
Money & Business

Technology, innovation and management

...project management, the contractors, the workers, everybody involved, and trying to iron out some of the mistakes which have dogged us in the past. INTERVIEWER: And in terms of what you’ve learned while making the two programmes, what do you consider the most serious barriers to development of infrastructure in this country? EVAN DAVIS: I think I would label the...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The business of film
History & The Arts

The business of film

...manage complexity. A film is one of those projects where anything can and usually does go wrong. Video 1 Bharat talks about the cost and complexity of film production This week will provide more information about jobs within numerous production departments. Making a film takes a lot of work, and there are a lot of moving parts. It can only be completed through the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Systems thinking and practice
Digital & Computing

Systems thinking and practice

...management. So many projects fail because consideration of the human element is omitted, or badly covered by the project manager. ‘Systems’ has helped me to grapple with the complexities. Your next question may well be: ‘But will systems thinking work for me?’. I can't answer this but urge you to read on and discover this for yourself. What I can say is that among...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
10 years of The Bottom Line
Money & Business

10 years of The Bottom Line

...project managers involved. When the Russians get divorced living in a flat they’ll use British lawyers to service their needs in that, and so there’s a sort of economy built around that. That’s the British service economy. So that’s another example of this kind of move upmarket. And the third of course are those intellectual property type industries, like...
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Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...project cycle? - The project ‘cycle’ is the dominant way of framing, managing, and understanding development interventions. [Described image] Figure 1 The project cycle Many development project management handbooks make reference to the project cycle, but the number of stages and their labels can vary quite widely. Figure 2 below is ......
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Returning to STEM

...project management. And that was something I was perfectly capable with despite the career break. So I had great encouragement. I organised a two-week work experience, if you like, with a friend's company, an oil and gas engineering company. Had the oil and gas industry not been in the state it is at the moment with the oil prices, I was offered a role there to come back...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness

...project management, or I could do something different, which is to start managing people more and perhaps get to the point where I have my own team, which I think sounds like something I might be interested in actually. MAN It's tough though, isn't it, being at a crossroads? I mean, I remember myself when I was at a career crossroads- it's probably 20 years ago now- it...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Hybrid working: digital communication and collaboration
Digital & Computing

Hybrid working: digital communication and collaboration

...project management planning and tracking tools – Trello, Monday, Todoist Project communication channels – Slack, Basecamp Online whiteboards – Miro, Mural Using social media – LinkedIn, specific subject matter sites Using comments and review functions in online documents – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Google Docs and Google Sheets Documents set up to track progress...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs