AM 432 – Making Effective Infrastructure Decisions
NZ$425.00 excl GST
Last updated: June 2025
AM 432 – Making Effective Infrastructure Decisions sharpens your ability to make sound, evidence-based choices in complex infrastructure environments.
You’ll explore proven techniques for scoping problems, comparing options, and dealing with uncertainty – then put them into practice through hands-on activities. Along the way, you’ll gain confidence using frameworks like Net Present Value, Multi-Criteria Analysis, and Better Business Cases.
By the end of the course, you’ll be ready to lead more strategic, transparent, and defensible decisions. Enrol now and strengthen your decision-making toolkit!
Course Author: Lisa Roberts
Lisa is an expert facilitator and has substantial experience developing and delivering infrastructure management standards and guidelines, leading and managing complex projects and programmes, and advising and supporting clients on various aspects of infrastructure asset management.
Lisa is an independent consultant focussed on supporting clients to improve ‘whole of business’ asset management and infrastructure resilience.
AM 432 is completed entirely online, allowing you to learn at your own pace, in your own time. You can begin as soon as you enrol.
Description
Overview
AM 432 – Making Effective Infrastructure Decisions elevates your decision-making skills.
Discover strategies for making effective infrastructure decisions within complex and dynamic environments.
Throughout AM 432, you will practice and enhance your decision-making skills, giving you the opportunity to apply theory and refine your thinking.
By the end of the course, learners will be able to:
- Effectively define a complex problem and scope solutions.
- Apply a range of optimised decision techniques, including Net Present Value, Benefit-Cost Analysis and Multi-Criteria Analysis.
- Deal with uncertainty by using sensitivity analysis to test decision outcomes.
- Understand and compare different investment decision frameworks, such as Better Business Case and Investment Logic Mapping.
- Understand the characteristics of a good decision process.
AM 432 provides a no-nonsense, hands-on learning experience.
Who Should Attend
Anyone involved in infrastructure asset decision-making.
Outcomes
Learners completing AM 432 will be able to apply a variety of decision-making processes.
Recommended Prior Learning or Equivalent Experience
- AO 101 – Introduction to Te Ao Māori
- AM 201 – Telling the Story of Asset Management
- AM 203 – Lifecycle Planning
- AM 305 – Planning and Decision-Making
Typical Attendees Include
- Asset Managers
- Consultants
- Engineers
- Project managers
- Executives
- Auditors
Learning Material
- Text, images, video
- Formative assessment
- Activities
- Case studies
- Summative assessment
