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So, this is where you guys start to have to do some work and a bit of response back, we have at about a quarter of an hour, haven't we Theuns. So, this graph here is a graph for New Zealand that was produced by the office of the auditor general by NZIER. And so, the blue line was capital …
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So in terms of New Zealand and local government, I do a lot of work in the local government sector, we have a thing we called the Local Government Act. One of the questions Theuns put to me. He said, we have some amendments coming up, what do they mean? And I’ve taken the liberty to reinterpret …
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Harvey and Irma were the two tropical cyclones that battered the US coasts in late August 2017. Both storm systems were classified as major hurricanes. Hurricane Harvey with its 130 mph wind was classified as Category 4, while Hurricane Irma was Category 5 with her winds reaching 185 mph. As …
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Watch this recording and presentation slides of the Ask-the-Experts October 2017 webinar that Ross Waugh and Heather Himmelberger held. Ross and Heather had been conducting the Ask-the-Experts webinars since 2014. The webinar on 11 October 2017 is the 6th in the series. In this webinar, Ross …
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When I came across an article on how some organizations are pursuing ISO 55000 for the sake of getting the prestige and using it for marketing purposes, my thought was these organizations are missing a lot. I can see two significant values you are investing on with ISO 55000: You are adding …
News21’s investigative report that around 63 million Americans are exposed to unsafe drinking water is making headlines in the USA’s major online news agencies. The report examined the Environmental Protection Agency violations on water quality and monitoring affecting places from California to …
Talking about "Using Uncertainty Theory in Asset Management Planning" Ross explains the advantage of making lots of small decisions. In this post, Ross gives an illustration and discusses further. The other thing is thinking about a car or a boat or something like that. When you’re going in …
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So, uncertainty theory. And I know hopefully you’ve been exposed to a little bit of that. If you haven’t, Dr. Henning will be no doubt pleased to point you in the right direction but you can use uncertainty theory and statistics as a planning tool with infrastructure. And it assists in going, so …
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In this post, Ross continues to talk about strategy vision in developing the asset management plan. Specifically, he discusses the pace of change, which is currently high. Further on, he shares his idea of analyzing the changes and building flexibility to the changes. The pace of change …
Asset Management Strategy - Integration Steps So the integration, as we’re saying before with the ISO 55000 diagram. So you developed your 10-30 year asset management strategy, your tactical planning is your asset management plans, your renewal plans, and detailed individual analysis if need …
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So the other thing is, at a strategic level and particularly if you’re doing a whole of the region, a whole of the city, a whole of country stuff is that you’ll get scrutinized and challenged. It’s as simple as this, most countries in the world the is the developed countries spend between 2-4 …
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So the key issues, and this is problem domain definition. This is Dr. Henning-speak here. So there’s a problem and a domain for that problem. What are we trying to sort out? And so the key issue is what are we solving? Are we solving a growth issue? Are we solving an economic decline and …
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