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  3. The centre assesses, and NCC Education Limited awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from NCC Education Limited.

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01What it is

Find out more about the courses and qualifications we offer at NCC Education; including - degrees, diplomas, postgraduate courses, professional development, courses for young learners, and courses regulated by Ofqual.

These are the units NCC Education 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.

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02The units

What each unit actually teaches you to do

Corporate Finance and Decision Making Real unit · NCC Education Limited
This unit introduces learners to corporate finance principles, including sources of finance, capital structure decisions, and the role of financial and management accounting. You'll apply financial accounting methods to report performance and assess financial information for decision-making.

What you'll be able to do

  • Explain how different types of business organisations are financed, including sources of funding and capital structure
  • Explain the role of financial and management accounting in providing information for decision-making within different business organisations
  • Apply financial accounting methods to prepare financial statements and reports that reflect the financial performance of a range of business organisations
  • Analyse the financial performance of a range of business organisations using appropriate ratios and techniques
  • Apply management accounting techniques to determine the cost of products, services, and activities for business costing decisions
  • Apply management accounting techniques to support organisational decision making, including budgeting, forecasting, and performance evaluation
Digital Marketing and Communications Real unit · NCC Education Limited
You'll critically assess digital marketing and communication opportunities and challenges arising from disruptive technology and digital transformation. The unit covers the changing nature of digital customers and the development of digital marketing strategies using various tools and techniques.

What you'll be able to do

  • Critically assess the opportunities and challenges for digital marketing and communication presented by disruptive technology and digital transformation
  • Explain the changing nature of digital customers
  • Analyse different tools and techniques to develop a digital marketing strategy
  • Develop digital activities to support and enhance multichannel marketing
  • Justify the application of digital marketing innovation to monitor, measure and manage the digital marketing strategy for a chosen organisation
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Real unit · NCC Education Limited
You'll critically evaluate enterprise and entrepreneurship concepts, characteristics of entrepreneurs, and early enterprise development requirements. The unit covers idea generation, success factors, and the impact of different enterprise types on the economy.

What you'll be able to do

  • Critically evaluate Enterprise, Entrepreneurship and the characteristics of the entrepreneur
  • Critically evaluate the requirements for the early development of an enterprise
  • Analyse the role of idea generation within an enterprise
  • Critically assess success factors for entrepreneurship
  • Examine the key theories of innovation, disruptive entrepreneurship and patterns of adoption, innovation and disruption
  • Justify the need for and content of a business plan and pitch
Information Systems and Knowledge Management Real unit · NCC Education Limited
This unit examines the strategic role of information and knowledge management in organisations, assessing how these strategies support business objectives. You'll evaluate tools and techniques used to develop, share, and protect organisational knowledge and information.

What you'll be able to do

  • Examine the strategic role of information and knowledge management in achieving organisational goals and objectives
  • Critically assess how information and knowledge management strategies can be aligned with business strategy to create competitive advantage
  • Critically assess the tools and techniques available to organisations to support the development of information management systems (IMS) and knowledge management systems (KMS) strategies and plans
  • Develop an appropriate resource investment and management strategy for information and knowledge management in a given organisational situation, considering budget constraints and resource allocation
  • Critically evaluate governance and strategic planning frameworks for information management (IM) and knowledge management (KM) in an organisation, considering ethical and legal considerations
International Marketing Strategy Real unit · NCC Education Limited
You'll critically assess the strategic importance of international marketing, including social and cultural considerations, market research methods, and market entry strategies. The unit also covers the evaluation of international marketing implementation and performance.

What you'll be able to do

  • Critically assess the strategic importance of international marketing
  • Critically appraise the social and cultural considerations in international marketing
  • Examine how market research is conducted internationally
  • Critically assess the methods used to enter an international market
  • Critically appraise the implementation of an international marketing strategy
Leadership, People and Change Real unit · NCC Education Limited
You'll critically apply leadership concepts and theories to organisational settings, evaluating leadership styles, strategies, and their impact on culture and performance. The unit also examines policies and practices for managing people and leading organisational change.

What you'll be able to do

  • Critically apply leadership concepts and theories to analyse and improve leadership practices in various organisational settings
  • Critically evaluate different approaches to leading strategy and shaping organisational culture, considering their impact on performance and employee engagement
  • Evaluate a range of policies and practices that support effective leadership and management of people, including recruitment, training, and performance management
  • Critically evaluate different approaches to leading organisational change, considering the challenges and opportunities associated with implementing change initiatives
Project Management Real unit · NCC Education Limited
It teaches you to evaluate the role of projects within organisations, including different project types and execution models. You'll apply project management concepts, tools, and techniques to plan, resource, budget, monitor, and control projects effectively.

What you'll be able to do

  • Discuss and evaluate the role of projects in the organisational context
  • Critically evaluate several project types and execution models
  • Apply concepts, tools and techniques for proposing, planning, resourcing, budgeting, monitoring, controlling and quality-assuring projects
  • Discuss and evaluate the project manager’s role in ethical leadership, relationship management, communications, networking and the management of cultural issues
  • Critically assess strategies for managing risk, uncertainty and ambiguity
  • Evaluate the outcomes of projects
Strategic Management Real unit · NCC Education Limited
It teaches you to analyse an organisation's strategic position by evaluating internal and external environments and competitive forces. You'll assess strategic choices, manage implementation challenges, and formulate approaches to change management.

What you'll be able to do

  • Analyse the strategic position of an organisation
  • Analyse and evaluate the strategic choices available to an organisation
  • Critically assess the issues facing an organisation when managing and implementing strategy, and formulate approaches to managing change
03The standards

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.

  • Evaluate international marketing opportunities for your design business

    Standard
  • Manage information, knowledge and communication systems

    Standard
04Where it leads

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.

Showing 6 roles, drawn from 105 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

International Information Management Coordinator

This role can lead to work designing information architecture, managing a knowledge management function, or setting information strategy across an organisation.

See the whole journey
05The credits

The credits, and who awards them

Level 7 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by NCC Education 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

Corporate Finance and Decision MakingDigital Marketing and CommunicationsEntrepreneurship and InnovationInformation Systems and Knowledge ManagementInternational Marketing StrategyLeadership, People and ChangeProject ManagementStrategic 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 The Coach · your practice partner Illustration
The Coach Make the case from “Digital Marketing and Communications” to me in thirty seconds. I am the person who signs it off and I am already late.
You It would improve engagement and bring us in line with best practice.
The Coach Neither of those costs me anything to say no to. Open with the number that changes if I do nothing.
The same lesson on the real thing: the conversation in the middle, the thinking ladder on the left, and the criteria each answer is evidencing on the right.
  • Pitch it Evaluate

    “Digital Marketing and Communications” 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 “Project Management” 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 “Corporate Finance and Decision Making” 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

    “Information Systems and Knowledge Management” 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.

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 Corporate Finance and Decision Making, one of this qualification's own units.

Corporate Finance and Decision Making Level 7

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

This unit introduces learners to corporate finance principles, including sources of finance, capital structure decisions, and the role of financial and management accounting. Learners will apply financial accounting methods to report performance and assess financial information for decision-making.

How the thinking builds
  1. 1 Remember
  2. 2 Understand
  3. 3 Apply
  4. 4 Analyse
  5. 5 Evaluate
  6. 6 Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.

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Your Plan Illustration

Built for NCC Education Level 7 Diploma in Business Management

8 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by NCC Education Limited.

  1. Corporate Finance and Decision Making
  2. Digital Marketing and Communications
  3. Entrepreneurship and Innovation
  4. Information Systems and Knowledge Management
  5. International Marketing Strategy
  6. Leadership, People and Change

and 2 more in the full unit list below.

These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

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