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13 Oct 2020
Gain Skills with The Open University
The OU are offering Rolls-Royce staff and their families the opportunity to upskill and reskill using OU courses.
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Updated on:
30 Jun 2020
Online training support for businesses
The Open University has partnered with Invest Northern Ireland to offer a range of free business-focused training.
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Updated on:
29 May 2020
Business support for Small and medium-sized enterprises
Many Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are facing their toughest challenges to date due to Covid-19. Study our free business courses to help improve your skills and knowledge.
Updated on:
03 Apr 2020
The Bottom Line 2020
Evan Davis hosts the business conversation show with people at the top giving insight into what matters.
Level: 1 Introductory
Updated on:
03 Feb 2020
Gain Skills with The Open University
Michelin and The OU are working together to offer all Michelin staff and their families the opportunity to upskill and reskill using OU courses.
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Level: 1 Introductory
Updated on:
04 Nov 2019
The effects of ambient cues in retail environments
Research shows that within 17 milliseconds, we've already judged how attractive we find a product. But how much does your environment affect you, could playing the right 'muzak' encourage you to spend?
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30 Oct 2019
Can you manage a supply chain?
Test your skills of running a supply chain. Can you complete the ordering process, without ending up with too much stock? Your profits and reputation are at stake!
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Updated on:
26 Sep 2019
What Britain Buys and Sells in a Day
Our trading relationships face their biggest change in decades. How much do you know about our imports and exports?
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24 Sep 2019
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Understanding your customers
This free course Understanding your customers is a short introduction to understanding customers The course underlines the relevance of understanding customers as individuals members of society and members of organisations It clarifies some key marketing concepts and terminology and highlights some differences between consumer and businesstobusiness marketing The course is suitable for a variety of learners including small business owners and those working in small businesses with limited access to specialists as well as marketing professionals and those thinking about pursuing a course of study to become a marketing professional This free course is an adapted extract from the Open University course B206 Understanding customers355 Transcript36
Level: 2 Intermediate
Updated on:
06 Nov 2020
Make a changing world a better place
Educating the next generation of business talent with free online learning.
Read now: Make a changing world a better place about Managing projects through people
Updated on:
13 Oct 2020
Gain Skills with The Open University
The OU are offering Rolls-Royce staff and their families the opportunity to upskill and reskill using OU courses.
Read now: Gain Skills with The Open University about Managing projects through people
Updated on:
30 Jun 2020
Online training support for businesses
The Open University has partnered with Invest Northern Ireland to offer a range of free business-focused training.
Read now: Online training support for businesses about Managing projects through people
Updated on:
29 May 2020
Business support for Small and medium-sized enterprises
Many Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are facing their toughest challenges to date due to Covid-19. Study our free business courses to help improve your skills and knowledge.
Updated on:
03 Apr 2020
Investment risk
Risk in a financial context is a synonym for uncertainty This free course will allow those with some background knowledge of the area to explore investment risk You will examine how and why investors are riskaverse and look at the risk factors involved in making a decision to invest
Level: 3 Advanced
Updated on:
02 Mar 2020
The Bottom Line 2020
Evan Davis hosts the business conversation show with people at the top giving insight into what matters.
Level: 1 Introductory
Updated on:
03 Feb 2020
Gain Skills with The Open University
Michelin and The OU are working together to offer all Michelin staff and their families the opportunity to upskill and reskill using OU courses.
Read now: Gain Skills with The Open University about Managing projects through people
Updated on:
08 Jan 2020
Introduction to operations management
This free course Introduction to operations management will introduce you to the role of operations management in organisations and gives you the opportunity to understand what an operations manager does It looks at how the role might influence the short and longterm success of the organisation It is important to develop a clear understanding of the impact of good and bad operations management practice on the performance of an organisation as a whole
Level: 2 Intermediate
Updated on:
04 Dec 2019
Marketing communications as a strategic function
Marketing communications help to define an organisations relationship with its customers This free course Marketing communications as a strategic function emphasises the strategic importance of such communication and its longterm effect on consumers Communication models can act as a predictive guide but in the end it is important to recognise the autonomy and unpredictability of consumers
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Level: 3 Advanced
Updated on:
14 Nov 2019
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