Advanced Diploma in Entrepreneurship
Course Overview
The Advanced Diploma in Entrepreneurship (Management Track) at the London School of International Business and Management (LSIBM) is a Level 5 senior-track qualification for corporate innovation leads, senior intrapreneurs and growth-stage SME managers scaling structured revenue lines inside established UK businesses. Sitting inside the Business & Management faculty, the Advanced Diploma sequences IOEE senior intrapreneur content, FSB scaling guidance and Institute of Consulting practitioner material into a working scale-stage course focused on internal ventures and growth-programme design. The UK Corporate Governance Code’s emphasis on long-term value has moved corporate innovation from side project to standing agenda item, and the syllabus follows that shift.
Delivered over twelve to fifteen months, the Advanced Diploma is taught by working UK scale-up leaders and corporate innovation directors, with fortnightly cohort clinics. The Advanced Diploma in Entrepreneurship is available on-campus in central London, fully online, or by distance learning, and articulates directly into LSIBM’s Higher Diploma in Entrepreneurship. Every cohort finishes with a growth-plan defence in front of a working UK SME board member.
Key Features
- Curriculum designed around IOEE senior intrapreneur content and Institute of Consulting practitioner material, with a corporate-innovation emphasis.
- Three delivery modes — on-campus in central London, fully online, or by distance learning.
- Fortnightly senior clinics with a working UK corporate innovation director or SME growth leader.
- A live growth-plan project — a three-year growth plan for a UK SME defended in front of a working practitioner panel.
- Assessment blend of a growth plan, an internal-venture business case, a peer-review log and a management-team design brief.
- Direct articulation onto LSIBM’s Higher Diploma in Entrepreneurship.
- Structured route toward IOEE Member-level progression, with tutor support on the evidence portfolio.
What You Will Learn
The Advanced Diploma treats entrepreneurship at scale-stage inside established businesses — the practical craft of the intrapreneur or growth-manager balancing internal venture-building with parent-business commitments. You will graduate with a defensible growth plan.
- Corporate innovation — portfolio thinking, staged funding, kill criteria.
- Growth-stage SME strategy — category economics, defensibility.
- Internal venture governance and board reporting.
- UK growth-finance architecture — British Business Bank, growth debt.
- Management team scaling — layering leadership without breaking culture.
- Corporate M&A basics for SME leaders.
- Financial planning at scale — three-year P&L, working capital, cash cycle.
- Sales-process design and the founder-to-team hand-off.
- Intellectual property strategy inside a scaling UK business.
- Change management for growth transitions.
Who This Course Is For
- Corporate innovation directors and heads of new ventures.
- SME growth managers scaling structured revenue lines.
- Family-business successors adding governance to a growing operation.
- Enterprise advisers formalising their scale-stage toolkit.
- Small-business owners preparing to raise external capital or exit.
Career Pathways
Graduates of the Advanced Diploma in Entrepreneurship (Management Track) typically progress into senior intrapreneur, growth-manager and corporate-innovation roles across UK SMEs, mid-market operators and support agencies. Typical destinations include:
- Head of Corporate Innovation
- SME Growth Manager
- Head of New Ventures
- Programme Director, Enterprise Support Agency
- Enterprise Adviser (senior)
- Innovation Consultant
- Business Development Director (SME)
The Advanced Diploma is the natural step onto LSIBM’s Higher Diploma in Entrepreneurship and supports IOEE Member-level progression. Graduates typically continue toward CMI Level 7 study within eighteen months of first senior role.
Entry Requirements
- A relevant Diploma (Level 4), Foundation Year, or two years of substantive founder or scale-up experience — a founder story or trading portfolio is expected in the portfolio route.
- GCSE English Language at grade 4/C and Mathematics at grade 4/C (or equivalent).
- IELTS 6.0 overall (no band below 5.5) for non-native English speakers.
- A short statement of intent and one academic or professional reference — applicants with IOEE, FSB or Chamber of Commerce engagement should mention it on application.
Why Study at LSIBM
The London School of International Business and Management (LSIBM) is a specialist business-education provider based in central London and part of Harold International College. Advanced Diploma cohorts sit in small groups so tutors track progress course by course, and every route is mapped to UK professional-body competencies — ACCA, CIMA, CIM, CIPD, CMI, CIPS, IOE&IT, CFA UK — so employers recognise the credential.
London puts the City, Canary Wharf, Whitehall, Companies House, the FCA, the Bank of England and the West End within a short tube ride of every classroom. Advanced Diploma students access a fortnightly practitioner clinic, an industry-careers day each cohort and structured application coaching in the final term.
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