Transform raw business data into actionable insights that drive evidence-based strategic and operational decisions.
The Business Decision Making (Unit 7) unit focuses on collecting, analysing, and presenting information to support management choices in dynamic environments.
Learners work with spreadsheets, charts, and statistical tools to interpret trends, forecast outcomes, and evaluate strategic alternatives.
This unit bridges financial literacy and strategic management, preparing students for analytics-heavy degree programmes and business analyst roles.
This unit develops practical, industry-aligned competencies across 4 core learning modules:
Identify decision problems and information needs for stakeholders
Design surveys, interviews, and sampling approaches
Assess data quality, bias, and reliability in business research
Manage ethical collection and storage of organisational data
Calculate measures of central tendency, dispersion, and correlation
Build spreadsheet models with formulas, pivot tables, and charts
Interpret time-series patterns and index movements
Test hypotheses relevant to marketing and operations decisions
Create dashboards and executive summaries for management audiences
Communicate limitations and assumptions behind analytical results
Recommend actions with cost-benefit and risk considerations
Defend conclusions in formal presentations and Q&A sessions
Evaluate strategic options using structured decision frameworks
Complete Pearson external assessment tasks with data packs
Justify selected strategies with integrated quantitative evidence
Review post-decision monitoring and control mechanisms
Internal and external assessment deadlines follow Pearson BTEC session calendars. Confirm key dates with ICT Business School at enrollment.
All coursework and exam submissions must meet Pearson authenticity standards. Plagiarism checks and verification apply to every unit.
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