Business and Society

5 dot points, in syllabus order. Each dot point has a focused answer, with exam-style questions and worked answers where available.

How does a venture protect its ideas and meet its legal obligations?

Identify intellectual property and legal requirements relevant to protecting and operating a venture.

How a venture protects its ideas through trade marks, patents, copyright and designs, and meets legal obligations such as business structure, registration, consumer law and privacy.

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How do project management and decision-making tools turn an idea into delivered actions?

Apply project management and decision-making tools and strategies to plan and deliver a venture in a business context.

How project management tools such as Gantt charts and milestones, and decision-making tools such as decision matrices and SWOT, help plan, deliver and justify the development of a venture.

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How do digital and emerging technologies create both opportunities and challenges for a venture?

Analyse and evaluate the opportunities and challenges that digital and emerging technologies pose for a business.

How digital and emerging technologies such as e-commerce, automation, AI and data analytics create opportunities and challenges for a venture, and how to evaluate adopting them responsibly.

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How do you evaluate the social, economic, environmental and ethical impacts of a business venture?

Analyse and evaluate the social, economic, environmental and ethical impacts of a local or global business.

How to analyse and evaluate the social, economic, environmental and ethical impacts of a venture, covering the triple bottom line, sustainability, ethical sourcing and corporate social responsibility.

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How does a venture turn data into business intelligence that improves its decisions?

Create and apply business intelligence from data to develop and evaluate business models and plans.

How a venture creates and applies business intelligence by gathering data, identifying metrics, analysing results and acting on insight to develop and evaluate its business model and plan.

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