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- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer Qualifi Ltd has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and Qualifi Ltd awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Qualifi Ltd.
This Level 7 diploma is aimed at individuals in, or aspiring to, senior management roles. It covers strategic management and innovation, including operations, finance, human resources, and marketing. Successful candidates will develop skills in areas such as supply chain analysis and strategic decision-making.
These are the units Qualifi 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. 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 Qualifi Ltd. It does the teaching and the mapping. Qualifi Ltd 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
Finance for Managers Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse financial information and data to inform managerial decision-making
- Assess budgets and their ability to support organisational objectives and strategic goals
- Evaluate financial proposals for expenditure provided by others, considering their alignment with organisational strategy and financial viability
Global Marketing Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Apply appropriate tools and techniques to identify and select new products or service ideas, considering market needs and competitive landscape.
- Evaluate the importance of innovation protection for new products and services, including patents, trademarks, and copyrights.
- Develop appropriate marketing strategies for particular markets, considering segmentation, targeting, and positioning.
- Develop internationalisation strategies for selected large organisations in global markets, marketing in a public sector organisation, considering cultural differences and market entry strategies.
Human Resource Planning Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how the HR plan supports strategic objectives and contributes to organisational success
- Understand the legal and organisational frameworks for the employment of staff, ensuring compliance and ethical practice
- Understand the effect of the organisational environment on employees, including factors such as culture, communication, and leadership
Innovation, Change and Enterprise Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate approaches to innovation, including disruptive innovation, incremental innovation, and open innovation.
- Evaluate models of change and risk management, including Lewin's change management model and risk assessment frameworks.
- Understand entrepreneurship in business, including the characteristics of entrepreneurs and the process of starting a business.
Marketing Strategy for Social Enterprise Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse the critical success factors for a small to medium-sized social enterprise (SMSE).
- Design a marketing strategy for a small to medium-sized social enterprise (SMSE).
- Critically appraise the role of marketing in the not-for-profit sector.
- Design relevant marketing strategies for the not-for-profit sector.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of marketing in a public sector organisation.
Operations and Global Supply Change Management Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature of supply chains, including their structure, function, and dynamics.
- Appraise product and process design and their connections with operations and global supply chains, competitive performance indicators and business economics.
- Deliver organisational supply chain management goals through planning and control of supply and demand, utilising appropriate techniques and strategies.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of techniques for operations and supply chain improvement, including lean manufacturing and six sigma.
Strategic Direction Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Review the organisation's current strategic aims and objectives to ensure they are up-to-date and relevant.
- Determine the organisation's strategic aims and objectives based on internal and external factors.
- Evaluate the organisation's progress towards achieving its strategic aims and objectives, identifying successes and areas for improvement.
- Evaluate a range of strategic options to support a new strategic position, considering their potential benefits and risks.
- Select the most appropriate strategic option to support the organisation's new strategic position, justifying the decision based on its alignment with organisational goals and resources.
Strategic Management Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate an understanding of the nature, scope and context of strategic management, including its importance in organisational success.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the internal and external factors affecting an organisation, including SWOT and PESTLE analysis.
- Review existing business plans and strategies of an organisation, identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
- Design internationalisation strategies for selected organisations in global markets, marketing in a public sector organisation, considering cultural and economic factors.
Strategic Marketing Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the relationship between the marketing plan and strategic objectives, ensuring alignment and contribution to overall organisational goals
- Produce a strategic marketing plan that outlines key marketing activities and initiatives to achieve strategic objectives
- Promote the market plan effectively to gain support and resources in support of strategic objectives
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
Develop communication and other marketing strategies to support social marketing programmes
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Engage and support policy and decision makers in government and organisations
- Standard
Establish strategies and action plans to meet the social marketing goals
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Evaluate and report performance and outcomes of social marketing strategies
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Influence, Develop and Review Strategy
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Influence, develop and review strategy
- Standard
Manage and maintain social marketing programmes
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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Showing 6 roles, drawn from 1,015 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
Global Supply Chain Manager
This role can lead to senior positions with wider influence over a business, such as a VP of global operations or a chief supply chain officer.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 7 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Qualifi Ltd 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
Finance for ManagersGlobal MarketingHuman Resource PlanningInnovation, Change and EnterpriseMarketing Strategy for Social EnterpriseOperations and Global Supply Change ManagementStrategic DirectionStrategic Management
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
“Global 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 “Human Resource Planning” 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 “Finance for Managers” 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.
- Lead it Apply
“Operations and Global Supply Change Management” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.
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.
- Develop communication and other marketing strategies to support social marketing programmes
- Engage and support policy and decision makers in government and organisations
- Establish strategies and action plans to meet the social marketing goals
- Evaluate and report performance and outcomes of social marketing strategies
- Influence, Develop and Review Strategy
- Manage and maintain social marketing programmes
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 Finance for Managers, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Learners will develop the ability to analyse financial information and data, assess budgets in relation to organisational objectives, and evaluate financial proposals. This unit supports informed managerial decision-making through the interpretation of financial statements and ratios.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for Qualifi Level 7 Diploma in Strategic Management and Innovation
9 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Qualifi Ltd.
- Finance for Managers
- Global Marketing
- Human Resource Planning
- Innovation, Change and Enterprise
- Marketing Strategy for Social Enterprise
- Operations and Global Supply Change Management
and 3 more in the full unit list below.
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