IAM Professional Development Workshops

We currently offer five expertly developed courses, scheduled at various times throughout the year, each designed to support and enhance your asset management journey.

Courses:

• Achieving Asset Management Excellence in Your Organization
• Creating and Maintaining a Strategic Asset Management Plan (SAMP)
• Climate Risk Assessments for Infrastructure and Facilities
• ISO 55001 – Gap Closure and Developing an Asset Management System
• Driving Measurable Outcomes with Value-Based Decision-Making

This course will provide an overview of asset management maturity assessment tools and uses, will cover real-world examples of evaluating asset management maturity and utilize a gap assessment to develop actionable strategies to advance.

An asset management self-assessment and other exercises will be utilized throughout the workshop to provide attendees with practical, ready-to-use ideas and practices they can take back to their organization to advance their asset management practices and outcomes from any state of maturity.

Workshop Objectives

• Equip participants with practical strategies to optimize their asset management programs.
• Explore case studies to illustrate successful asset management advancement techniques.
• Provide hands-on exercises and interactive sessions for participants to apply their learning

This professional development course is designed to help practitioners evaluate the risks associated with extreme weather events and the uncertainties of future climate conditions for both built and natural assets. Participants can expect to gain the following:

• Principles of Climate Risk Assessments: Learn the foundational principles of assessing climate risks within the context of life-cycle analysis for the built environment.
• Historical and Future Climate Trends: Enhance your knowledge of past climate trends and future climate projections, including their limitations, data availability, and application in risk assessments.
• Risk Management Principles: Develop a better understanding of risk management methodologies as they relate specifically to climate risks.
• Tools and Standards: Acquire knowledge of various tools, guidelines, and standards that are pertinent to conducting climate risk assessments for infrastructure and facilities.

The course provides practical insight into the development of creating a meaningful Asset Management Strategy (also known as a Strategic Asset Management Plan or SAMP), including alignment with organizational objectives and engagement of the workforce, goal-setting, prioritization, risk management, performance monitoring and cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Summary content:

• Strategic thinking in asset management
• Policy, strategy and plans: what goes where?
• Role of a SAMP within a management system
• Typical contents of a SAMP
• The SAMP development process
• Using and maintaining your SAMP
• Communications, consensus and commitment
• Course summary and assessment

Taught by highly experienced asset management experts, this course includes plenty of real-world examples and interactive exercises.

This workshop will provide an overview of why value is essential in decision-making.  Delegates will learn how to identify the value criteria that matter most to their organization and discover how to construct a Value Framework to assess and prioritize projects for maximum value realization.

An interactive session, the ‘Copperleaf Optimisation Game’, will be utilized to provide participants with hands-on experience in applying Value-Based Decision-Making principles to achieve concrete results.

Workshop Objectives

• Develop the skills to drive value-based decision-making.
• Participants will develop and take away their own high-level Value Framework tailored to their organization.
• Provide hands-on exercises and interactive sessions for participants to apply their learning

This professional development workshop is delivered by IFS Copperleaf, in partnership with the IAM.

This course is for those wishing to understand how to interpret and apply a management system conforming to ISO 55001 in their business.

Summary content:

• A brief introduction to ISO 55001 and management systems.
• Introduces the concept of the ‘corporate journey’.
• Using ‘asset management system’ as a framework for applying good practice.
• Practical guidance on how to develop practical solutions for applying asset management in your business.

Candidates will be provided with a copy of The IAM System Application Guide which was developed by a cross-organizational team of experienced practitioners from multiple organizations and provides detailed support and further reading (more than 100 pages).