Lead Implementer Track: Building an AIMS from Mandate to Certificate

The practitioner playbook for taking an organisation from “we should govern AI” to an accredited ISO/IEC 42001 certificate: winning the mandate, scoping and gap analysis, planning artifacts that survive audit, operating the system without drowning in paper, internal audit and management review as steering instruments, and running the certification project itself.

Content current as of 2026-09.

Lessons

  1. The implementer’s mandate
  2. Planning the AIMS
  3. Making it operate
  4. Internal audit and management review
  5. The certification project