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 OCN London has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and OCN London awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from OCN London.
The OCNLR Level 5 Diploma in Business Management builds on existing knowledge to develop advanced understanding of strategic business functions. Covering areas such as business planning, human resource planning, marketing planning, management accounting, innovation and market analysis, this qualification takes a practical, ‘learning-by-doing’ approach. It supports progression into more senior roles, increased workplace responsibility, entrepreneurship, or further higher-level study.
These are the units OCN London 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 OCN London. It does the teaching and the mapping. OCN London 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
Business Planning Real unit · OCN London
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the elements of a standard business plan
- Understand and identify Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Understand the process of management decision making in a changing environment
- Write a business plan for a chosen company
Human Resource Planning and Management Real unit · OCN London
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how companies can identify their required skills and knowledge to operate and compete effectively
- Undertake audits of a company’s current and future workforce requirements
- Understand performance management principles and practices
- Understand the importance of career development and employee retention in the HR role to support a sustainable company
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Real unit · OCN London
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the different types of innovation and the processes involved in bringing innovative ideas to fruition.
- Understand the concept of entrepreneurship and the factors that influence entrepreneurial activity.
- Understand the conditions and support mechanisms required to foster innovation and entrepreneurship within an organisation or economy.
- Understand the distinct stages of the innovation process, from idea generation to market launch.
Management Accounting Real unit · OCN London
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of management accounting within an organisation and the application of cost accounting techniques.
- Understand the different types of data used in management accounting, their application in assessing current market position, and the use of forecasting methods.
- Understand the various types of budgets that management accounting can provide to support organisational decision-making.
- Undertake costing activities to determine the cost of products or services and analyse profitability to inform business strategy.
Market and Data Analysis Real unit · OCN London
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the crucial role that market analysis plays in developing a comprehensive understanding of the market environment.
- Understand the steps involved in the market research process, from defining objectives to collecting and analysing data.
- Undertake a market analysis process to gather relevant information and support effective planning functions within an organisation.
- Understand how to interpret market analysis findings and apply them to inform strategic decision-making and improve business performance.
Marketing Planning Real unit · OCN London
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the components and structure of a Marketing Plan framework.
- Understand the concepts of Segmentation, Targeting, and Positioning within marketing.
- Understand how the Marketing Mix contributes to the effective implementation of Marketing Plans.
- Understand the overall Marketing Plan framework and its purpose.
- Understand the impact and application of technology within the marketing planning function.
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
Establish, implement and improve business plans for design services
- Standard
Plan IT Business Analysis Assignments
- Standard
Plan your business exit strategy
- Standard
Provide management information
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.
- 5 records
- 2 records
- 4 records
- 1 record
- 4 records
- 1 record
Showing 6 roles, drawn from 107 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
Management Accountant
This work can lead to a finance business partner role, then on to finance manager or a senior position such as head of FP&A.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 5 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by OCN London 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
Business PlanningHuman Resource Planning and ManagementInnovation and EntrepreneurshipManagement AccountingMarket and Data AnalysisMarketing Planning
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
“Innovation and Entrepreneurship” 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 “Business 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 “Management Accounting” 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
“Market and Data Analysis” 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.
- Establish, implement and improve business plans for design services
- Plan IT Business Analysis Assignments
- Plan your business exit strategy
- Provide management information
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 Business Planning, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit covers the elements of a standard business plan, including the identification and use of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Learners will understand management decision-making processes in dynamic environments and develop skills to write comprehensive business plans.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for OCNLR Level 5 Diploma in Business Management
6 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by OCN London.
- Business Planning
- Human Resource Planning and Management
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Management Accounting
- Market and Data Analysis
- Marketing Planning
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