ISO 44001 Collaborative Business Relationship Management System Awareness Training

ISO 44001 specifies requirements for a collaborative business relationship management system. It provides a structured, auditable way for organisations to select partners, agree how value will be created and shared, run the relationship, and exit it cleanly.

It matters for climate and net-zero work because decarbonisation targets almost never sit inside one organisation's boundary. Scope 3 emissions, circular material flows and low-carbon infrastructure delivery all depend on suppliers, clients and competitors working to shared objectives — which is precisely what this standard governs.

Objectives

• Understand the purpose, structure and requirements of ISO 44001
• Work through the eight-stage collaborative life cycle
• Assess organisational readiness and select partners on evidence
• Build a joint relationship management plan with shared objectives and measures
• Govern value creation, behaviours and issue resolution through the relationship
• Apply the standard to collaborative delivery of climate and net-zero objectives

Course outline

• Why collaboration fails without a management system
• Structure of ISO 44001 and its Annex SL alignment
• Stage 1-3: operational awareness, knowledge and internal assessment
• Stage 4-5: partner selection and working together
• Stage 6-8: value creation, staying together and exit strategy
• The Relationship Management Plan and the Joint Relationship Management Plan
• Senior executive responsible, governance and competence
• Behaviours, trust and dispute resolution
• Applying collaborative delivery to Scope 3 and net-zero programmes
• Certification and internal audit of a collaborative management system

Who should attend

• Partnership, alliance and framework managers
• Procurement and supply chain professionals
• Sustainability leads working on Scope 3 and net-zero delivery
• Project and programme managers in collaborative contracts
• Quality and management system professionals

Learning outcomes

Participants will be able to explain the requirements of ISO 44001, run an organisation through the eight-stage life cycle, and structure a collaborative relationship that can be audited and that survives changes of personnel.