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Level 4 Diploma in Business Management

Review and coursework completion

BM402 · Business Operations — Week 15 of 16

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This week’s topics

Review and coursework completion

  1. Understand different types of businesses.
  2. Understand the relationships between business functions.
  3. Be able to measure a business’s internal environment.
  4. Be able to measure a business’s external environment.

What you will be able to do

  • Bring together all the learning outcomes and complete the coursework against every assessment criterion.

Study materials

Further resources

  • Writing Guide with Handbook, ch. 8.7: Reviewing the final draft · PDF · OpenStax (2021), a checklist for revising a report before submission; pp. 269–271 · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Business sectors: primary, secondary, tertiary and quaterna…
  • Week 2: Types of business: profit, not for profit, NGOs, micro, SME…
  • Week 3: Legal structures: sole trader, partnership, limited company…
  • Week 4: Business functions and how they work together
  • Week 5: Organisational structures: hierarchic, bureaucratic, matrix…
  • Week 6: How functional relationships shape structure: charts, autho…
  • Week 7: The internal environment of a business and why it is import…
  • Week 8: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Quantifying the internal environment with SWOT/TOWS
  • Week 10: Assessing the internal environment: capacity assessment gri…
  • Week 11: The external environment of a business and why it matters
  • Week 12: Measuring the external environment with PESTLE
  • Week 13: Competition: Porter's Five Forces and the Ansoff matrix
  • Week 14: Assessing a business’s external environment alongside its i…
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Week 16: Final evaluation and project assessment
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