How you’d get this certificate
- Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer NOCN has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and NOCN awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from NOCN.
The NOCN Level 4 qualifications in The Management of Productivity are designed to provide a practical introduction to organisational management, productivity and competitiveness.
These are the units NOCN 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. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with NOCN. It does the teaching and the mapping. NOCN sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
5S to Improve Productivity Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand 5S components' relation to efficiency and safety.
Budget Management Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how costs inform budget planning.
Business Start-Up Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate business idea feasibility.
Continuous Improvement Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the concept of lean production.
- Understand how to plan and execute an improvement project in an organisation.
- Understand the role of monitoring and review in continuous improvement.
Corporate Social Responsibility Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the inter-relationship of CSR with business success.
Costing and Financial Control Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of costing in financial and productivity management.
- Categorise costs to aid budgeting and product costing.
- Use different approaches to costing to inform organisational decisions.
Designing and Implementing a Balanced Scorecard Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand performance measurement's role in business strategy.
Implementing a Digital Strategy Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand components of a digital strategy.
Innovation and Creativity Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand innovation and creativity in business idea generation.
- Implement change arising from innovation.
Leadership and Management of Productivity Improvement Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand roles of leadership and management in strategic planning.
- Understand leading teams to improve productivity.
Managing Customer Service to Improve Productivity Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand customer service's role as a competitive tool.
Managing Marketing Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand core business functions and their inter-relationships with marketing.
Mobile Technologies for Improved Productivity Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand social implications of mobile technologies.
New Product Development Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the NPD process stages.
Organisational Development for Improved Productivity Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand inter-relationships of leadership, culture, and productivity.
- Understand effectiveness and efficiency factors in working teams.
Performance Measurement and Management Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand performance measurement in the management of an organisation.
- Understand key principles of an effective performance management regime.
Planning for Operational Change Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand resistance to change and its management.
- Plan implementation of changed processes.
Problem Solving for Business Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how problems can be identified.
Production Engineering Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand design impacts on production efficiency.
Project Management Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Create a project plan.
- Understand importance of regular project monitoring and review.
Quality Management Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of establishing a quality culture.
- Know the standards applicable to quality management.
- Understand identifying control points for quality checks.
Reducing Waste to Improve Productivity Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand waste in lean methodology.
Risk and Issue Management Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand risks and issues in productivity improvement.
Strategic Planning Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the concept of organisational strategy and strategic planning.
- Identify critical success factors for companies and their environments.
- Measure performance of an organisation.
Supply Chain Management Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the chain of events in business-to-business supply.
Using Benchmarking to Improve Performance Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of benchmarking within performance measurement.
Workforce Planning to Improve Productivity Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand workforce planning basics.
The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
- Standard
Contributing to the management of performance and the enhancement of value
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Plan the implementation of organisational change
- Standard
Working with Other Business Functions
The jobs these credits are mapped to
A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.
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Where this can lead
New Product Introduction Manager
This work can lead to managing a portfolio of product launches, leading a team of NPI managers, or moving into operations leadership.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 4 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by NOCN rather than by Zavmo. 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 have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
5S to Improve ProductivityBudget ManagementBusiness Start-UpContinuous ImprovementCorporate Social ResponsibilityCosting and Financial ControlDesigning and Implementing a Balanced ScorecardImplementing a Digital Strategy
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
The Coach · your practice partner Illustration - Pitch it Evaluate
“Managing Marketing” gets practised as a pitch. You make the case out loud, Zavmo asks the question the room would ask, and you make it again.
- Bring your own plan Create
For “Continuous Improvement” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.
- Draft the real one Create
You do “Budget Management” on a real document of your own. Zavmo works on the draft you have to send anyway, so the coursework and the job are the same piece of work.
- Map a live decision Analyse
“Problem Solving for Business” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.
What you leave holding
The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them
Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.
- Contributing to the management of performance and the enhancement of value
- Plan the implementation of organisational change
- Working with Other Business Functions
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from 5S to Improve Productivity, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit explains the 5S methodology's relation to workplace efficiency and safety.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for NOCN Level 4 Certificate in The Management of Productivity
27 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by NOCN.
- 5S to Improve Productivity
- Budget Management
- Business Start-Up
- Continuous Improvement
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Costing and Financial Control
and 21 more in the full unit list below.
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