Business and management

Online Courses

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Design Thinking (Sept 2020)
Agile Project Management (Sept 2020)
Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt (Oct 2020)
Emotional Intelligence for Leaders (Oct 2020)
Artificial Intelligence De-mystified: Opportunities and Value in Your Business (Oct 2020)
Starting a Successful Business (Oct 2020)
Branding and Marketing (Oct 2020)
Managing Innovative Technology (Oct 2020)

Short and intensive practical courses

Short and intensive practical courses for managers, entrepreneurs, scientists, engineers and anyone working in high-tech companies and organisations.

These short courses can be taken separately or as part of a weekly discount package.

Dates To Be Confirmed

NEW: Tech for Managers

A new programme of short, intensive and practical courses which have been developed to help you gain a critical appreciation of these important technologies.

Dates To Be Confirmed.

Design Thinking: A Collection of Methods and Tools for Inventive Problem Solving (1-day course - date TBC)
FinTech for Managers (1-day course - date TBC)
Artificial Intelligence De-mystified: Opportunities and Value in Your Business (1-day course - date TBC)
Cyber Security for Managers (1-day course - date TBC)
Blockchain for Managers (1-day course - date TBC)

Discount registration

These courses can be taken separately or as part of Tech for Managers: Discount Registration

Other courses

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt

During this five-day course you will learn how to practise Lean Six Sigma in your organisation and to affect significant and meaningful change in this practical, hands-on course.

Systems Engineering Fast-Track

Learn how to design and manage complex systems with this five-day course in Oxford. Next dates TBC.

Bespoke courses

Ask us about tailored courses for groups - we can arrange bespoke courses in Oxford or in-house.

Upcoming courses

This intensive one-day course will introduce Project Portfolio Management (PPM) as a framework for improving an organisation's ability to effectively deliver science and technology projects on time, on budget and to specification.

Agile Project Management (Theory and Practice)

Professional development

Develop your knowledge in the leading Agile method (Scrum) so that you can complete projects quickly and efficiently on this two-day course and practical workshop.

Applying Knowledge Management: Principles and Practices

Short courses, Professional development

A thorough insight into the main aspects of knowledge management to help you equip yourself with practical skills to build or begin the introduction of knowledge management interventions within your organisation.

Artificial Intelligence De-mystified: Opportunities and Value in Your Business

Professional development

This one-day course sets out to demystify artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). We will introduce the language and key ideas that will enable your business to unlock value from this powerful emerging technology.

Blockchain for Managers

Professional development

Focus on the use of distributed ledgers in business scenarios, taking into account the various privacy and confidentiality requirements that organisations face, and the various other regulatory frameworks that govern business today.