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Overview

Understand how business works and performance can be improved so that you can take your business forward and manage growth.

Duration

2 weeks

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Total fee

4,450

Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Intermediate

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Highlights

  • Earn a certificate from University of Leeds
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Course details

Skills you will learn
Who should do this course?

This course is part of the Going to University collection which has been specifically designed for students at schools and colleges

They provide a taster of undergraduate study at the University of Leeds and help students to decide which subject to study at university

What are the course deliverables?
  • Discuss the importance of both business processes and information systems by contributing to the course comments.
  • Identify the challenges a business faces when managing growth.
  • Evaluate the entrepreneur??s business challenge: How can Sophie increase productivity to meet the demands of sales?
  • Identify the business processes in a business plan.
  • Investigate where your business is going to operate.
  • Assess who is involved in the processes.
  • Using your own business idea or a company of your choice, investigate the information and systems required to track business processes.
  • Record the skills required to design and run the business processes.
More about this course

A successful business relies on processes and information systems; it is important that an entrepreneur pays close attention to how their business works and how performance can be improved so that they are in a position to take it forward and manage growth

Whether you have an idea for a future venture or you already have a side-line business whilst studying, this course cover efficient business processes to improve productivity

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Curriculum

The importance of business processes: controlling operations and technologies

Efficient business processes: adapting processes to facilitate business growth

How to improve productivity to meet increased demand

Information system types within business

The business plan: business processes and information systems

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Faculty details

Richard Tunstall
Associate Professor in Enterprise at the University of Leeds. Passionate about entrepreneurship. Part of the Centre for Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Studies team delivering 'Starting a Business'

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    Jan 6, 2025
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