This section collates a variety of Business Support, Funding and Learning Resources to help accelerate your business transformation journey. The content can be filtered to help you find the right information for your organisation quickly and efficiently.
Digital Skills Strategy
Hear from Mark Temple, Digital Skills Lead from Worcestershire County Council talk about the importance of digital transformation to enhance your business. Worcestershire County Council are developing a Digital Skills Strategy – a programme of support, which will be available early 2023 to help business leaders support their employees and grow their digital skills.
Don’t be the next victim: Learn how to stop the hackers!
Learn 3 critical lessons on this course
#1 Learn how not to be an easy target!
#2 Learn how to stop a data breach!
#3 Learn how to assess if cyber-security is required for a business!
Introduction to web analytics
Find out what web analytics are and why they’re important With this course, you’ll explore some of the fundamentals of this increasingly popular skill and learn how to apply it to your own business. You’ll begin by looking at the basics of web analysis, including the different types of analytics and what they’re used for, before exploring some key areas in more detail.
Become a Data Analyst: Online Courses
Discover essential data analyst skills from LinkedIn Learning and Microsoft Learn, then get a Microsoft Certification to validate your skills. Top in-demand skills covered: Data analysis, analytics, visualisation; Microsoft Excel, SQL, BI, Tableau
HR Software Courses
2 useful courses covered: Understanding HR Systems Features & Benefits and Selecting an HR System
Become a digital marketing specialist
Features 8 courses covering key skills: Social media, content strategy, SEO, marketing channels; Google Analytics, Google Ads
Digital Skills: Social Media
Learn how your team can use social media for business, from creating a social media presence to measuring success.
The complete guide to digital skills
Professional services firm Accenture has teamed up with FutureLearn to provide a suite of free digital skills courses. Covering topics such as web analytics, social media, and artificial intelligence, these courses are designed to equip learners with essential digital skills for the modern century workplace.
Digital Skills: Artificial Intelligence Online Course
Discover the ability of artificial intelligence to transform your everyday life and reshape the way you work
Introduction to Machine Learning
This this set of lessons will explore machine learning and how it is used in the world around us. Learn how it make inferences and recommendations using data, trains a computer, and consider the ethical implications of machine learning.
An Introduction to Digital Health and Care
The NHS, the world’s largest integrated health system, generates and manages vast amounts of data, providing significant opportunities for innovation. This UK.gov page provides a comprehensive list of UK organisations that give support, advice or useful information for each stage of the development life cycle for digital health and care products.
Digital Boost
Digital Boost provides access to volunteer digital technology experts from organisations such as Google, BT and Bloomberg as well as a range of masterclasses on subjects such as digital strategy, digital marketing, operations and so much more.