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10 billion dollar companies that didn't exist 10 years ago
Money & Business

10 billion dollar companies that didn't exist 10 years ago

...business achievement. Want to know some in-depth answers to life's burning questions? Discover a range of questions at the heart of modern life with our throwback series _The Big Question._ 7: Tumblr [Tumblr homepage] With the likes of Lady Gaga and Barack Obama using it, Tumblr is the star-studded go-to microblog. Founded by David Karp in 2007, and acquired by Yahoo! in...
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Culture can be brutal, just ask Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

Culture can be brutal, just ask Milton Keynes

...business after all – but it’s not the whole truth. [Concrete Cows, 2012 Intu shopping centre ] Concrete Cows, 2012 Intu shopping centre The originals, a small herd of three cows and two calves, were created in the late 1970s by the Milton Keynes Development Corporation’s first community artist-in-residence Liz Leyh, with help from some of the town’s first,...
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A journey through two Englands
History & The Arts

A journey through two Englands

...business of his, any more than the most outlying nebula or the coal-sacks of the southern hemisphere: his solar system was the parish; the master's temper and the casualties of lambing-time were his region of storms. He cut his bread and bacon with his pocket-knife, and felt no bitterness except in the matter of pauper laborers and the bad-luck that sent contrarious...
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Are women leaders the key to growing women’s sport?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are women leaders the key to growing women’s sport?

...business that diverse leadership leads to better governance. Diverse boards have a greater wealth of experience, thought and perspective. This results in more effective risk management, better decision making and, ultimately, better performance and success (Farrer & Co, 2019). A recent report by McKinsey & Co (2020) (one of the ‘big 5’ management consultants in the...
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Approaches to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

Approaches to software development

...busy constructing a software system, it is probable that the users’ needs will change. In addition new requirements are likely to be identified once a software system becomes operational. It is also possible that the developer may miss a requirement during the specification process. We expect a software system to be flexible, because it is important to be able to change...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Project management: the start of the project journey
Money & Business

Project management: the start of the project journey

...business opportunity, as a problem or as a newly identified requirement. Projects often appear to be mysterious: it can be difficult to define exactly what a project is, and to the man or woman in the average organisation they seem to appear rather in the same way that mushrooms sprout – overnight. They are very diverse, and may range from one or two people making an...
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Level 3: Advanced 35 hrs
Are women under-represented at tech accelerators?
Money & Business

Are women under-represented at tech accelerators?

...businesses that can stand on their own two feet. As well as giving needy new companies financial support and office space, they play an important role in helping them develop through mentoring. So it’s good news that the number of accelerator programmes is set to increase in the UK, to support what is one of the world’s most dynamic start-up clusters and the most...
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Is Brexit going to unseat English as the lingua franca?
Languages

Is Brexit going to unseat English as the lingua franca?

...language of multinational corporations and international business. So, we have not seen the beginning of the end of English as a transnational language and it may well thrive for a long time to come. What we have seen is another nail in the coffin of native speaker supremacy. Native speakers have just chosen to make themselves even more irrelevant to the story of English....
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