The benefits of a longer product life
A savvy shift in industrial resourcefulness is reflected in products that last longer, are adaptable, maintainable, and repairable. Such products optimise material value through preventing waste. These design strategies challenge the ways we...
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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. With lives and livelihoods affected, many organisations are trying to reimagine the future. Studying our free business...
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28 Jun 2021
Stefan Szymanski on the business of football
When it comes to the business of football, you get what you pay for. Stefan Szymanski provides an insight into the professional side of the sport.
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11 May 2021
SMEs and Net Zero – challenges and opportunities
How can small and medium-sized enterprises make the radical changes required to tackle the Climate Emergency?
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Updated on:
04 Jan 2021
Make a changing world a better place
Educating the next generation of business talent with free online learning.
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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.
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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
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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Updated on:
08 Jan 2020
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
History of online retail
How has online shopping grown since 1995? What happened when? How many of us were online, and where we could shop?
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30 Aug 2019
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The benefits of a longer product life
A savvy shift in industrial resourcefulness is reflected in products that last longer, are adaptable, maintainable, and repairable. Such products optimise material value through preventing waste. These design strategies challenge the ways we...
Read now: The benefits of a longer product life about Managing projects through people
Updated on:
12 Oct 2021
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. With lives and livelihoods affected, many organisations are trying to reimagine the future. Studying our free business...
Updated on:
28 Jun 2021
Stefan Szymanski on the business of football
When it comes to the business of football, you get what you pay for. Stefan Szymanski provides an insight into the professional side of the sport.
Read now: Stefan Szymanski on the business of football about Managing projects through people
Updated on:
11 May 2021
SMEs and Net Zero – challenges and opportunities
How can small and medium-sized enterprises make the radical changes required to tackle the Climate Emergency?
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Updated on:
04 Jan 2021
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.
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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
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
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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Updated on:
08 Jan 2020
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