Open University Business School
Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
http://www.open.ac.uk/

Integrating software systems for IT professionals

‘Systems integration�is the term given to the process of building up a system from pre-written components. This development paradigm is radically different from the way in which we have developed software in the past as it reduces reliance on activities such as detailed design, programming and unit testing �and hence leads to reduced cost and effort. It is important to companies that: need......
 

This course explains why a strategic approach is necessary for organisations and will enable you to play a more effective role in contributing to strategic thinking within your organisation. The course is designed so that you can work at your own pace with a variety of activities that examine strategic thinking, strategic analysis, strategic options and strategic decision making. By the end ......
 

This course provides tools and techniques you can use to understand, monitor, measure and manage performance in the part of the organisation you control. It will help you to understand different approaches to managing organisational performance and to identify how your own practice fits with these. During this course, you will work at your own pace through study material that examines the ma......
 

During this course, you will work through study material that examines different ways of understanding leadership. This includes leadership traits, preferred leadership styles and matching leadership styles to circumstances, together with the ideas of leadership distributed within a group and leading across boundaries. Analysis of the different skills and capabilities required of leaders follow......
 

This course provides the tools and techniques you need to improve performance in your team, department or project. The course promotes a proactive and systematic approach to performance management by highlighting how managers can agree performance objectives with team members, set up mechanisms for reviewing progress and actively support improvements in performance. During this course, you w......
 

Increasingly, the system of law and regulations that governs UK society has to be understood within the wider European context. The Diploma will give you opportunities to explore the law and legal system of England, Wales and the European Union, while studying one of the official languages of the EU, French, to intermediate (L211/LZX211) or advanced (L310/LZX310) levels, and gaining insights in......
 

Society is now governed by a complex system of law and regulations: the Diploma will explore how these laws and regulations are made together with their place and role in society. An opportunity to evaluate their role and function is then provided by the study of the law of obligations, the law of property, and public law. The main aims of this diploma are: To provide learners of all backgro......
 

The Open University’s Foundation Degree in Leadership and Management will provide you with a general understanding of organisations, their structures and cultures; wider considerations such as environments, markets and processes; and how all these inform leadership and management. It will help you to analyse leadership behaviour and management decision-making in the workplace, and enable you to......
 

Our practical six-month course Winning Resources and Support focuses on the skills and knowledge necessary for successful fundraising. It offers valuable professional development to anyone involved in encouraging philanthropic giving from individuals and organisations, or to those hoping to move into such a role. The course will help you identify and communicate a compelling fundraising case. I......
 

If you’re keen to see if your idea for a new enterprise or a brand new innovation at your place of work has a real prospect of success, our practical course Investigating Entrepreneurial Opportunities has been designed to help you build a strong and enterprising platform for the future. Based on practical, interesting and challenging online Activities that provide integrated support to it......
 

This certificate is intended as a contribution to your continuing professional development and provides an international dimension for those concerned with the management of finance and reporting functions in larger companies. It covers investment decision-making in an international context and analyses financial reporting and the international capital markets. It enables accountants to extend ......
 

This course is ideal for anyone needing essential accounting skills, or if you’re looking for a fast route into the accounting profession. It gives you exemptions from ACCA, CIMA and CIPFA exams. The course is designed to give you a good grasp of: basic financial, cost and management accounting computerised accounting systems and spreadsheets role of accounting in business organisations ......
 

A leading edge masters degree designed for senior HR professionals, or those aspiring to a senior HR role, who wish to develop their ability to make an effective contribution at a strategic level in today’s rapidly changing organisational contexts, internally or as an external consultant. Some of the courses in the study programme will be studied in parallel with students aiming at MBA, MPA, Fi......
 

A specialist masters degree, designed for accountants in industry and commerce who want to broaden their perspectives by adding international accounting and finance knowledge and wider management skills. The programme starts with a one-year course on management that reflects a wide range of contemporary practices and challenges. Then there are two modules, one developing the management theme......
 

A leading edge Master of Public Administration qualification for managers throughout federal, national, regional and local government, the uniformed services, public and voluntary agencies, and social enterprises. It will be particularly relevant if you are involved in delivering policy, leading modernisation projects, and supporting innovation. At times, the programme will involve collaboratio......
 

This practical one-year qualification is all about you. It’s designed to help you relate your professional development to the responsibilities and challenges you face every day, and is particularly suited to new managers and to managers at any level who have had little or no formal management training: Strengthen your managerial capability Put your learning into practice as you study Wid......
 

Certificate focuses on the essentials of senior management. It’s designed to help you develop the skills and understanding that drive successful organisations in today’s fast-moving business environment. As well as a thorough grounding in management concepts and principles, the Certificate gives you the tools you need to: improve performance and manage change reflect on and critic......
 

If you’re in middle management and moving into a more senior role, or taking your first step into strategic management, this qualification will help you make sense of the territory. It’s designed to help you: respond quickly and flexibly under pressure to rapidly changing markets and environments adopt an integrated approach to managing teams, departments and projects manage t......
 

A leading edge MBA qualification designed for the Life Sciences and Health universe, from pharmaceuticals and biotechnology industries through to the broad environment of healthcare provision. It is directed towards strategic decision-makers and those who have the potential to move into strategic positions and, crucially, those who want to equip themselves to influence future directions in thes......
 

A leading edge MBA qualification created to help individuals and their organisations face up to the challenges of preparing for the successful management of technological change. It is designed to develop people who can lead technological and organisational change in a rapidly moving business environment, and who understand how to manage new and changing technologies to achieve excellence. The ......
 

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