Strategic Information Management
Tutorial notes Level 7 in
Strategic Management and Leadership
Unit 7004
These notes are designed to help you through your assignment. They will do this by:
• Task Review - providing some helpful pointers for the tasks
• Checklist – last minute checklist before submitting your assignment
• Additional reading information – this section may contain articles, or website references which will extend your knowledge on the subject areas.
Your tutor will be happy to help you by answering any questions you may have about particular topic areas, and you can send questions by email or request a telephone tutorial.
Your tutor will also be happy to review one draft of your assignment prior to submission to check that you are on track and identify any areas for improvement or development before you make your final submission. To take maximum advantage of this facility your draft should contain all of the tasks for the assignment.
Research and evaluation
Remember that at level 7, learners would be expected to undertake some research, the results of which they could demonstrate in their assignment. In this way, assignments will have a good balance of description/evaluation of theory as well as practice.
What does this mean exactly? As a minimum this means “name dropping” relevant theories and theorists, and having a bibliography.
For example “as recommended by ABC Guru (2012) personal development should be linked to achievement of corporate objectives. With this in mind I have……
Some assignments will require more than this and will require critical evaluation of specific models, theories and techniques, and/ or how they are/can be used in your organisation. Always seek to evaluate organisational performance/practice where possible and relevant to the assignment.
As well as concepts mentioned in the learning materials you should review resources available from the CMI through Management Direct.
Assignments without a bibliography or
Strategic Management and Leadership
Unit 7004
These notes are designed to help you through your assignment. They will do this by:
• Task Review - providing some helpful pointers for the tasks
• Checklist – last minute checklist before submitting your assignment
• Additional reading information – this section may contain articles, or website references which will extend your knowledge on the subject areas.
Your tutor will be happy to help you by answering any questions you may have about particular topic areas, and you can send questions by email or request a telephone tutorial.
Your tutor will also be happy to review one draft of your assignment prior to submission to check that you are on track and identify any areas for improvement or development before you make your final submission. To take maximum advantage of this facility your draft should contain all of the tasks for the assignment.
Research and evaluation
Remember that at level 7, learners would be expected to undertake some research, the results of which they could demonstrate in their assignment. In this way, assignments will have a good balance of description/evaluation of theory as well as practice.
What does this mean exactly? As a minimum this means “name dropping” relevant theories and theorists, and having a bibliography.
For example “as recommended by ABC Guru (2012) personal development should be linked to achievement of corporate objectives. With this in mind I have……
Some assignments will require more than this and will require critical evaluation of specific models, theories and techniques, and/ or how they are/can be used in your organisation. Always seek to evaluate organisational performance/practice where possible and relevant to the assignment.
As well as concepts mentioned in the learning materials you should review resources available from the CMI through Management Direct.
Assignments without a bibliography or