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ILX’s The Apprentice Review: Episode 5

This week, The Apprentice brought us one of the most popular reoccurring tasks of the series: the “Buying Task”. Each team had to obtain nine obscure items, all at the lowest price possible, before returning to the House of Lords by 7pm. The teams incur fines for missing items or being late, but the...

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ILX’s The Apprentice Review: Episode 4

It’s week 4. Once again the candidates were tasked to produce a luxury experience from a not-so luxury budget. The teams needed to deliver a VIP hospitality box experience at Wembley Stadium for the women’s FA Cup final, and run a food stall outside during the game. Although the clients could demand...

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ILX's The Apprentice Review: Episode 3

This week, the teams were tasked to program a robot to sell to larger retailers, then select a toy to sell to smaller retailers. Despite Team Vitality out-selling Team Graphene in smaller toy sales by a massive £4,308.05, they received no larger orders. Graphene’s impressive total order value of £57...

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The Future of e-Learning

The value of the e-learning market is expected to reach about $331 billion by 2025. A lot of research and development goes into e-learning solutions. So what will the market look like by then, and what new features will we promote? These are three areas that we predict will receive a lot of attentio...

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ILX's The Apprentice Review: Episode 2

Interior Decorating? It's a Numbers Game It’s Week 2. There’s still a weird gender war, the tasks are simpler, and the prizes for the winners aren’t quite helicopter rides and champagne yet. This week, the teams were given a room each in the gorgeous, luxury Stoke Park Hotel to design, decorate and...

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Three ways to enhance the value of project management training

Training in the fundamentals and practice of project management, whether it is based on PRINCE2®, Agile, or the professional ‘Bodies of Knowledge’, is a proven step towards building effective project delivery capabilities. However, as training is also a serious investment, it makes sense to consider...

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ILX's The Apprentice Review: Episode 1

Managing Difficult Project Team Members The Apprentice is back for its 13th season, and we can’t wait to pick apart all the disasters and successes (mostly disasters) that are bound to be in store for us. In this series, we’ll be taking a look at each episode from a project management perspective...

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