How you’d get this certificate
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- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer iCan Qualifications Limited has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and iCan Qualifications Limited awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from iCan Qualifications Limited.
This Level 7 qualification is aimed at individuals in, or aspiring to, senior management roles. It covers strategic management and leadership skills, including resource management, governance, and risk management within a business context. Successful candidates will develop the knowledge to optimise technology and manage product development.
These are the units iCan Qualifications Limited 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 iCan Qualifications Limited. It does the teaching and the mapping. iCan Qualifications Limited 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
Design business processes Real unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the various techniques and tools available to support the design and optimisation of business processes.
- Develop new or improved business processes that align with organisational objectives.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of existing and newly developed business processes, identifying areas for further improvement.
Develop a business strategy Real unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles underpinning the development of a business strategy
- Evaluate an organisation’s operating environment
- Develop a strategic vision for an organisation
- Develop a business strategy for an organisation
Develop a strategic business plan Real unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles underpinning the development of a strategic business plan
- Prepare for business strategy implementation within an organisation
- Develop plans to deliver the business strategy for an organisation
Develop and manage collaborative relationships with other organisations Real unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of effective collaboration with other organisations, including communication, trust, and shared goals
- Understand the benefits and challenges of collaborative relationships
- Identify external collaborative relationships that could benefit an organisation
- Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with other organisations, ensuring mutual benefit and effective communication
- Review and improve collaborative relationships to maximise their effectiveness
Establish business risk management processes Real unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand different business risk management models and techniques
- Develop business risk management processes within an organisation
- Evaluate the effectiveness of implemented business risk management processes
Establish organisational governance controls Real unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature of compliance and non-compliance with governance requirements, and the potential consequences
- Understand the legal and regulatory framework affecting businesses, including relevant legislation and industry standards
- Establish governance controls within an organisation, ensuring compliance with relevant requirements
Execute a strategic business plan Real unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles underpinning the execution of a strategic business plan
- Implement a strategic business plan within an organisation
- Evaluate a strategic business plan and its implementation
Lead the development of a continuous improvement strategy Real unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles underpinning the development of a continuous improvement strategy within an organisation
- Develop a comprehensive continuous improvement strategy for an organisation
- Manage the implementation of continuous improvement initiatives and monitor their impact
Lead the development of a knowledge management strategy Real unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles underpinning knowledge management within an organisation
- Develop a knowledge management strategy aligned with organisational objectives
- Manage knowledge resources and facilitate knowledge sharing within an organisation
- Promote knowledge management practices and encourage employee participation
Lead the development of a quality strategy Real unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles underpinning the development of a quality strategy within an organisation
- Develop a comprehensive quality strategy for an organisation
- Manage quality assurance processes and monitor their effectiveness
Manage product and/or service development Real unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key stages involved in the development of new or improved products and/or services
- Understand the factors that contribute to the successful development of new or improved products and/or services
- Establish the need for new or improved products and/or services through market research and analysis
- Define the specific requirements and objectives for new or improved products and/or services
- Manage the development process, ensuring it aligns with the defined requirements and objectives
- Monitor and evaluate the progress of the development process, making adjustments as necessary
Manage strategic human resources Real unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand strategic workforce planning within an organisation
- Optimise retention of staff within an organisation
- Manage human resources strategically within an organisation
Manage strategic marketing activities Real unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the strategic management of marketing activities, including the role of marketing in achieving organisational objectives
- Understand the importance of market analysis and planning in strategic marketing
- Evaluate a market, considering factors such as size, growth, and competition
- Develop a marketing communications strategy and plan that aligns with organisational objectives
- Manage strategic marketing activities, including budgeting, resource allocation, and performance monitoring
Obtain financial resources Real unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand methods of raising finance for an organisation, including different types of funding and their implications
- Identify the need for financial resources within an organisation, based on strategic objectives and operational requirements
- Obtain financial resources for an organisation, following appropriate procedures and securing necessary approvals
Optimise the use of technology Real unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles underpinning the optimisation of technology, including its potential benefits and limitations
- Scope the use of technology to identify opportunities for improvement and innovation
- Optimise the use of technological solutions to enhance efficiency, productivity, and customer experience
- Manage the use of technology, ensuring its effective implementation and ongoing maintenance
Promote equality of opportunity, diversity and inclusion Real unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles underpinning equality, diversity and inclusion in the workforce
- Evaluate organisational strategies, policies and practices which address equality, diversity and inclusion requirements
- Promote equality, diversity and inclusion policies and practices within an organisation
Provide strategic leadership and direction Real unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the characteristics underpinning strategic leadership and direction
- Provide leadership and direction to achieve organisational objectives
- Evaluate the effectiveness of the leadership and direction of an organisation
Shape organisational culture and values Real unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key components of organisational culture and values, including their impact on organisational performance.
- Understand how organisational culture and values are developed and maintained.
- Influence organisational culture and values through effective leadership and communication.
- Implement strategies to promote positive organisational culture and values.
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.
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Build and sustain collaborative relationships with other organisations
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Business Process Design and Improvement
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Comply with statutory and Governance best practice requirements
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Design and implement business analysis strategy
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Develop an organisational strategy in a food and drink business
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Develop and manage a strategy for your photo imaging business or practice
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Develop and sustain collaborative relationships with departments and other organisations
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Direct Information Security Governance: Establish and Maintain
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Establish and maintain transparent and formal structures and policies in relation to risk and internal controls
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Implement technology foresight processes
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Manage Relationships During Design and Improvement Programmes for IT Enabled Business Processes
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Oversee the effectiveness of management’s internal controls and mitigation processes and monitor organisational compliance
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Provide governance for your food and drink business
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.
- 7 records
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- 3 records
- 1 record
- 6 records
Showing 6 roles, drawn from 2,179 job records mapped to this qualification. Near-identical records are folded together, and each row says how many it stands for.
Where this can lead
Lead Knowledge Strategist
This work can lead to director-level roles in organisational learning, to a Chief Knowledge Officer position, or into leading a Learning and Development function.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 7 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by iCan Qualifications Limited 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
Design business processesDevelop a business strategyDevelop a strategic business planDevelop and manage collaborative relationships with other organisationsEstablish business risk management processesEstablish organisational governance controlsExecute a strategic business planLead the development of a continuous improvement 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
“Manage strategic marketing activities” 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 “Develop a strategic business plan” 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 “Obtain financial resources” 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
“Lead the development of a quality strategy” 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.
- Build and sustain collaborative relationships with other organisations
- Business Process Design and Improvement
- Comply with statutory and Governance best practice requirements
- Design and implement business analysis strategy
- Develop an organisational strategy in a food and drink business
- Develop and manage a strategy for your photo imaging business or practice
- Develop and sustain collaborative relationships with departments and other organisations
- Direct Information Security Governance: Establish and Maintain
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 Design business processes, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Learners will study techniques and tools for designing business processes. They will be able to develop new or improved processes aligned with organisational objectives and evaluate their effectiveness for continuous improvement.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for iCQ Level 7 Certificate in Strategic Management and Leadership
18 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by iCan Qualifications Limited.
- Design business processes
- Develop a business strategy
- Develop a strategic business plan
- Develop and manage collaborative relationships with other organisations
- Establish business risk management processes
- Establish organisational governance controls
and 12 more in the full unit list below.
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