Advanced Certificate In Business Innovation Management 

NQF 6 | SAQA ID 124610 | 120 CREDITS

Programme Details

Duration: 12 Months (Minimum)

The Advanced Certificate in Business Innovation Management equips students with applied knowledge and practical skills to manage innovation in today’s fast-evolving business landscape. This qualification develops the ability to identify opportunities, apply innovation management principles, and leverage technology and systems thinking to address complex organisational challenges.

Learners are introduced to the foundations of business and innovation management, gaining insights into global best practices and their local applications. The qualification is suited for managers and aspiring leaders who wish to navigate workplace disruption with agility, applying innovation processes, practices, and networks to improve business performance.

The curriculum builds competence across ideation, technology-enabled innovation, systems thinking, management practice, and workplace application. Learners also explore ethics and social accountability within the broader context of innovation management. Through a work-based challenge, students apply evidence-based approaches to identify and address real-world business and innovation issues.

This qualification combines theory and practice to develop innovators and innovation enablers who can respond to the demands of the Fifth Industrial Revolution (5IR) and beyond. It provides a foundation for future specialised studies, such as an Advanced Diploma in a cognate field, and prepares learners to drive transformation and growth in diverse organisational contexts.

Compulsory modules

• Ideation and Innovation Enablement (15 Credits) 
• Technology-enabled Innovation (15 Credits) 
• Innovation Economics (15 Credits) 
• Systems and Design Thinking for Innovation (15 Credits) 
• Management Practice (15 Credits) 
• Culture-building for Innovation (15 Credits) 
• Innovation in Practice: Work-based Challenge (15 Credits) 

Electives

Choose ONE – 15 Credits 

• Leadership Practice 
• Operations and Production Management 
• Talent Management and People Operations 
• Marketing Management 
• Project Management 
• Quality Management 
• Sales Management 

Students are required to select one elective stream and complete all the associated elective modules.

Qualification rules

• This qualification consists of 120 credits at NQF Level 6, including 105 credits of compulsory modules and 15 credits of elective modules. 

Minimum Admission Requirements

• Higher Certificate in Business Management, NQF Level 5.
  Or

• Higher Certificate in Business Management Practice, NQF Level 5.
  Or

• Higher Certificate in Business Administration, NQF Level 5.
  Or

• Higher Certificate in Management of Technology and Innovation, NQF Level 5.
  Or

• Appropriate Higher Certificate in a cognate field, NQF Level 5. 

Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)

 Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) for access into this qualification may be considered for candidates who do not meet the minimum entrance requirements. For more information about this process, please contact the Registrar’s Office.

Online Information Sessions:

Meet our Subject Matter Experts to find out more about this programme.

Choose from five intakes per year:

March
August
October

Study Mode:

Online Distance Education with online learning engagements

Duration: 

12 Months (Minimum)

Support:

Fully supported

Accreditation:

The DaVinci Institute for Technology Management (Pty) Ltd, Registered with the Department of Higher Education and Training as a private higher education institution under the Higher Education Act, 1997. Registration No. 2004/HE07/003. This qualification is accredited by the Council on Higher Education and Registered on the National Qualification Framework (NQF) by the South African Qualification Authority (SAQA).

FEES:

Application Fee:

R 350.00

Admission Fee:

The admission fee is a non-refundable fee payable prior to the commencement of the programme.  

Registration Fee:

R4 200.00

When you exit the qualification you should be equipped to:

• Utilise relevant business and innovation management frameworks within a contemporary workplace.
• Apply structures, processes, and practices that support effective innovation systems.
• Integrate innovation, technology, people, and systems principles to develop agile leadership approaches.
• Anticipate trends and disruptions and design innovative responses using ideation and enablement principles.
• Apply appropriate technologies to enhance productivity and efficiency.