Pearson Education Ltd · RQF Level 5
Pearson BTEC Level 5 Diploma in Innovation and Growth
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 5
- Total credits120
- Guided learning520 hours
- Units in this qualification19
Awarded by Pearson Education Ltd · on the Ofqual register
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Pearson Education Ltd registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Background to BusinessReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purposes of different organisations
- Understand the nature of the national, international and global business environments within which organisations operate
- Understand the behaviour of organisations in their market environment
- Understand the sources of finance available to organisations
Change Management for Innovation and GrowthReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the factors which impact on change in organisations
- Understand the importance of change management in enabling innovation in organisations
- Present planned models for change in an organisation to enable innovation and growth
- Prepare to manage the change process
Contribute to Fostering a Culture for Innovation and GrowthReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the cultural influences within organisations that affect innovation and growth
- Contribute to fostering a culture of innovation and growth in organisations.
Developing Innovative Business CasesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand business models and what makes them innovative
- Understand the features of business cases
- Create an entrepreneurial business case for an innovative idea
- Pitch an innovative idea
Developing an Innovative IdeaReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Assess the validity of an innovative idea
- Be able research the feasibility of an innovative idea
- Assess the feasibility of an innovative idea
- Present a business case acting on feedback for the innovative idea
Financial Planning to Support Business CasesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand budgeted financial statements for a business case
- Prepare budgeted financial statements for a business case
- Interpret budgeted financial statements for a business case
How Technology Contributes to Innovation and GrowthReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how technology contributes to innovation and growth in organisations
- Plan an innovation using technology in an organisation
- Evaluate an innovation using technology in organisations
Implementing an Innovative IdeaReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Plan a project for an innovative idea
- Implement a project for an innovative idea
- Evaluate the project results
Innovation and Growth in OrganisationsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the innovation process in organisations
- Understand how organisations’ ownership and structure affect innovation and growth
- Understand how innovation contributes to different types of organisational growth
Innovation in ActionReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the external environment of an organisation
- Develop an innovative solution for an organisation
- Implement an innovative solution
- Review the implementation of an innovative solution
Leading, Managing and Developing People for Innovation and Growth.Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the contribution of leadership and management to innovation and growth in organisations
- Demonstrate leadership and management skills to aid innovation and growth
- Understand the work and development needs of individuals in innovative organisations
Management Decision Making for Innovation and GrowthReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how management decision making in organisations enable innovation and growth
- Understand a management decision making system used for innovation and growth in an organisation
- Plan improvements to a management decision making system
Managing Quality for Innovation and GrowthReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the relationship between quality management and innovation and growth
- Understand how to develop a culture of quality improvement in organisations
- Apply the principles of quality management for innovation and growth
Marketing Innovative ideasReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the crucial role of marketing in achieving innovation and driving growth within organisations.
- Understand the impact of the external business environment (e.g., market trends, competition, regulations) when developing an innovative marketing strategy.
- Develop marketing strategies to expand an existing product or service into a new market segment or geographical area.
Principles of Researching and Testing Innovative IdeasReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to conduct research to give valid and reliable results
- Understand how to test innovative ideas
- Understand how to validate research findings
Strategic Planning and ManagementReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how models of strategic planning relate to innovation and growth in organisations
- Understand how strategic management links with strategic planning to achieve strategic decision making for innovation and growth
The Innovative Mind SetReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the skills required to be entrepreneurial
- Understand how intrapreneurial activity affects an organisation
- Solve a business problem using intrapreneurial skills
- Assess the development of own innovative mind set
Use of Financial Information for Planning Innovation and GrowthReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand organisations’ financial performance and position statements
- Understand costing methods in organisations
- Cost key elements of a project
Using Customer Relationship Management to Support Innovation and GrowthReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how Customer Relationship Management contributes to Innovation and Growth
- Understand the impact of ICT on Customer Relationship Management
- Understand how relationships with customers can be a source of innovation and growth to organisations
- Develop innovative Customer Relationship Management strategies
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Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 5 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
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Where these credits take you
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Where this can lead
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Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Pearson BTEC Level 5 Diploma in Innovation and Growth
19 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.
- Background to Business
- Change Management for Innovation and Growth
- Contribute to Fostering a Culture for Innovation and Growth
- Developing Innovative Business Cases
- Developing an Innovative Idea
- Financial Planning to Support Business Cases
and 13 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
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Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
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Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
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