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3.10 Develop Your Business Idea

Title: Develop Your Business Idea
QCA code: Y/500/4591
Level: Three
Credit Value: One

Learning Outcomes

The learner will:

Assessment criteria

The learner can:

  1. Demonstrate how to evaluate your business idea

1.1

Evaluate the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of your business idea

1.2

Explain what it is about your business idea (e.g. uniqueness, difference or new approach) which makes it likely to succeed when compared with other similar businesses

1.3

Describe how the product or service might be presented and explain how the presentation will help secure business success

  1. Demonstrate how to assess the market for your business idea

2.1

Review the potential for your business idea in the market, for example, possible market size, market segments etc

2.2

Undertake a provisional assessment of the impact of existing competitors on your business idea

2.3

Analyse how market and business trends might influence the success of your business idea

Additional information about the unit

Unit aim(s)

To support the development of skills needed to evaluate and review the market potential of a business idea when starting a business
Unit expiry date 2008

Details of the relationship between the unit and relevant national occupational standards (if appropriate)

  • BD1 : Check the likely success of a business idea

Details of the relationship between the unit and other standards or curricula (if appropriate)

Not applicable

Assessment requirements specified by a sector or regulatory body (if appropriate)

Assessment to be based on naturally occurring evidence or realistic work environment

Endorsement of the unit by a sector or other appropriate body (if required)

Supported by SFEDI

Location of the unit within the subject/sector classification system


Name of the organisation submitting the unit

OCR

Availability for use

To be used only by the following partners engaged in the SFEDI Framework project when developing Business Enterprise Qualifications

CMI, Edexcel, IAB, ILM, NOCN, OCR, VTCT

Business Support

Business Enterprise

Understanding Enterprise

Pre-Enterprise Standard
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