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AEES Executive Certificate in Alliances, partnerships and joint ventures

Decide to enter, govern or exit an alliance. This AEES certification attests alliances, partnerships and joint ventures.

  • AssessmentProfessional assessment
  • Attempts2
  • PreparationIncluded
  • France
  • Canada
Description

Alliances, partnerships and joint ventures

A vague familiarity with “Alliances, partnerships and joint ventures” is no longer enough. This belongs with Leadership and strategy. You hold a course, you change an organisation and you make an impact readable. People are hired to decide, not just to name the topic. This AEES certification is for professionals, managers and leaders who want to decide to enter an alliance, govern a partnership and exit without breaking value. No diploma is required. What is required is a working command of written French, and the will to show the subject on a real file, in a company, a public body or a partner organisation.

You are not joining a long degree. You take “Alliances, partnerships and joint ventures” seriously enough to use it, and seriously enough for someone else to read it on a file. Everything happens online, around a job you already have. You prepare if you need to, then you sit a professional assessment. The AEES Executive Certificate, if it is issued, is proof in your name, and it can be checked. It holds in a CV, a move or a cooperation. It is a short specialisation, issued by a higher-education institution. You see at once what you are buying: a targeted title, not a course catalogue.

Afterwards you can carry “Alliances, partnerships and joint ventures” into a team, a file or a new responsibility, and explain your choices to a manager, a funder or a partner institution. Others will see that you can decide to enter an alliance, govern a partnership and exit without breaking value, including outside your own organisation. If you succeed, AEES issues an AEES Executive Certificate in your name, with a unique serial number that can be checked in the public register. The award stays in your workspace. It shows a professional judgement you have demonstrated, useful for a CV, a new post or work in common.

Skills

What this certificate attests

The capabilities the assessment attests if you pass.

  • Decide to enter an alliance
  • Govern a partnership
  • Exit without breaking value
  • Anticipate a conflict of interest or a leak of know-how
  • Measure value created together
  • Prepare the end before signing the beginning
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Knowledge & research

Related scientific readings

Scientific readings related to this certificate.

Preparation included

To prepare for the assessment

After purchase, a preparatory course is available: 6 written modules, without an instructor, at your own pace. You are not required to follow it before opening the assessment. Each module sets out the notions, a commented case, the points to keep and a FAQ. It covers Rationale, Contributions, Governance and Risk.

When you are ready, you enter the assessment: a file already open, incomplete facts, conflicting views. You move through successive decisions. This is not a full taught programme with pedagogical supervision.

Structured written course

Notions, objectives and concrete examples, organised progressively.

Applied case

A commented professional situation to anchor the theory.

FAQ and preparation

Frequent doubts, then questions to go further on your own.

  1. Module 1, Rationale: Why an Alliance Beats a Simple Contract You face situations where a bilateral contract is not enough. You need a partner to co-invest, co-create, and share risks. In those moments, the choice is not between buying and building. It is between a simple contract and an alliance with shared governance or a joint venture with shared ownership. This module gives you the decision logic to choose the alliance when it unlocks value a contract cannot reach. Alliances work when interdependence is real. If your outcome depends on your partner’s behavior, speed of iteration, access to assets, or flexibility under uncertainty, a simple contract tends to misprice risk, slow decisions, and erode trust. An alliance lets both sides set direction, adjust incentives as facts change, and protect sensitive assets while pursuing a shared goal.
  2. AEES Executive Certificate (Alliances, Partnerships and Joint Ventures) Module 2: Contributions Alliances and joint ventures often fail not because the strategy is wrong, but because the parties did not make contributions explicit. People assume the other side will bring senior talent, on-time code, regulatory access or a customer book. Then, at the first milestone, the gap appears. This module gives you a disciplined way to define who brings what, how those inputs are valued, which rights attach to them and what stays non-negotiable. You will translate strategic intent into a verifiable contribution plan. That means creating a shared inventory of assets, capabilities, access and approvals; translating them into deliverables with service levels and timing; pricing or valuing them in a way that allows fair give and take; and building the legal hooks that keep sensitive assets safe. You will also set remedies when contributions slip and measures that avoid silent erosion of your IP or data.
  3. Module 3, Governance in Alliances, Partnerships and Joint Ventures Governance is the practical answer to a simple question: who decides what, when parties do not agree? In an alliance or joint venture, goodwill and a shared vision are not enough. You need a structure that gives the right people the right authority, that separates strategic decisions from day-to-day choices, that protects minority interests, and that keeps the venture compliant. It is the difference between friction that fuels progress and friction that burns cash. Good governance starts with clarity. You map the decisions that matter, match them with the forum that will take them, and define the voting thresholds and escalation paths. You do it upfront, not when the first dispute has already damaged trust. Then you run the forums with discipline: agenda, papers, quorum, minutes, follow-up. You measure the result, not the process, and you adjust when facts change.
  4. Module 4 of 6: Risk in Alliances, Partnerships and Joint Ventures Alliances create value by combining assets, data and skills that neither party could mobilize alone. The same integration also creates risk. Two risks dominate cross-company collaboration: unmanaged conflicts of interest and leakage of know-how. If you cannot see these risks early and shape the deal around them, the partnership will either stall or harm your competitive position. This module gives you a practical approach you can apply directly in a live file. You will map the areas where conflicts and leakage can occur, understand the legal and regulatory frame that constrains information sharing, design governance and technical barriers that work in practice, and embed the right provisions in your contract. You will also build routines for monitoring and escalation so controls stay effective after signing.
  5. Module 5/6, Performance: Measuring Joint Value in Alliances, Partnerships and Joint Ventures Performance is the connective tissue between strategy and governance in any alliance, partnership or joint venture. It translates narrative promises into numbers, observable behaviors and decision triggers. In this module you will build a practical, defensible approach to measuring joint value, aligned to your alliance purpose and usable in real reviews with counterparts and internal stakeholders. A credible performance system must clarify what is being measured, how it is measured, who owns each metric and how results translate into decisions. The method must handle both financial and nonfinancial outcomes, capture incremental benefits against a baseline and counterfactual, and do so at a cadence that prompts timely action rather than retrospective explanation.
  6. Exit: Designing and Executing a Value-Preserving Endgame The best exits are designed at entry. In alliances, partnerships, and joint ventures, the way you leave can destroy or protect years of investment. Exit is not only a clause near the back of a contract. It is a set of scenarios, triggers, rights, obligations, and playbooks that determine how assets, people, intellectual property, customers, data, and commitments are transitioned. In practice, exit also tests the quality of governance and the accuracy of the business case: if the path out is unclear, your exposure is higher than you think. Exits happen for good and bad reasons. A partnership can reach its natural end of term. A joint venture can achieve its objective and be unwound. One party might default, a technology may not scale, regulation could shift, or a parent company may divest. Sometimes market success is the trigger, not failure, for example when one party exercises a call option to acquire the venture. Whatever the cause, the exit must avoid business discontinuity, information mishandling, stranded liabilities, and valuation disputes.