QUALIFI level 7 Unit 704 Information Management and Strategic Decision Taking Assignment Brief 2026

Unit 704 Assignment Brief

Unit 704: Information Management and Strategic Decision Taking

Unit code: H/506/9069

RQF level: 7

Qualification : Qualifi level 7 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership

Aim

The unit will address the volume and complexity of data and information available to organisations and how to analyse, apply and determine its value in making strategic decisions.

Learning Outcomes And Assessment Criteria

Indicative Content

In this unit learners will be introduced to concepts, ideas and models that underpin an organisation undertaking information management and strategic decision taking. The models and concepts will include:

• Context is everything
• The Knowledge Economy
• Knowledge Management Drivers
• Dimensions of Knowledge Management
• Knowledge is Carbon Not Silicon?
• Tacit and explicit knowledge
• Do You Know What You Know?
• The Ackoff Pyramid
• A Common K-M Misconception
• Organisational Knowledge and Individual Knowledge
• Four Modes of Knowledge Creation
• Data Protection and Information Security
• Communities of Practice
• Uses of IT and digital technologies
• Knowledge Sharing – or not! Ethics Information Cultures – Definition.

Learners will further be introduced to, and encouraged to discuss, some of the management models, concepts and ideas that could be used to help you set departmental, project, team and personal objectives.

Core Text

Exploring Strategy, Johnson, G, Whittington, R. and Scholes, K., London Financial Times / Prentice Hall 9th Edition 2011

Suggested Resources

Stewart Brand: How Buildings Learn: What Happens after They’re Built http://shearinglayers.com/layers/

TRIZ http://www.triz.co.uk/ COBIT 5

https://cobitonline.isaca.org/ ITIL

http://www.itil.org.uk/

eTOM (Extended Telecoms Operating Model) https://www.tmforum.org/tm-forum-frameworx/ Systems and Requirements Engineering http://www.incose.org/.

ISO9000 – Quality Management

The ISO 9000 family addresses various aspects of quality management and contains some of ISO’s best-known standards. The standards provide guidance and tools for companies and organizations that want to ensure their products and services consistently meet customer’s requirements and quality is consistently improved. Standards in the ISO 9000 family include:

ISO 9001:2015 – sets out the requirements of a quality management system

ISO 9000:2015 – covers the basic concepts and language

ISO 9004:2009 – focuses on how to make a quality management system more efficient and effective ISO 19011:2011 – sets out guidance on internal and external audits of quality management systems.

A theory of networks (Karen Stephenson)

http://avxhome.se/ebooks/The_exploit       a_theory_of_networks.html The Fractal Organisation

http://journals.isss.org/index.php/proceedings56th/article/viewFile/1796/663

http://www.amazon.com/The-Fractal-Organization-sustainable-organizations/dp/0470060565 OODA

https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTED_78.htm