This is the detailed video on "Sustainability" where Ross deliberates further on the topic. While Ross placed "Sustainability" as the last topic of the "Introduction to Practical Asset Management" video seminar, he mentions that this topic could be placed within Future Demand or adjacent to the Risk sections of your Asset Management Plan. How do we embed sustainability into our asset … [Read more...]
Video: Sustainability – Summary Series
Ross presents the final video in the 16-video seminar "Introduction to Practical Asset Management", titled "Sustainability." Find out Ross' reasons for keeping "Sustainability" as the last topic in this 16-video series. How does an infrastructure management practitioner view sustainability? Ross provides a holistic outlook of sustainability through the whiteboard session in this … [Read more...]
How To Develop an Effective Asset Management Information System
Have you heard or watched the movie of a fictional hero named, Lone Ranger? Ross begins this FULL VERSION video with the story of the Lone Ranger. Isn't it interesting to know how "Lone Ranger" relates to Infrastructure Asset Management as Ross presents? Ross has written the "Asset Management Information Systems" section of the International Infrastructure Management Manual and his years … [Read more...]
Video: Asset Management Information Systems – Summary Series
Watch Ross present an overview of the topic "Asset Management Information Systems," which is the section of the IIMM 2011 edition he authored. He's in the process of updating the said section. Know why Ross is saying in this summary series "There are no silver bullet in infrastructure asset management." What does he mean by that? Does buying the latest software assure good asset … [Read more...]
How to Improve and Monitor Your Asset Management Plan
As you go through the process of preparing your asset management, you will realize there are lots of gaps in your data and assumptions. How do you move forward to bridging these gaps in your asset management plan? How do you identify and undertake improvements? How do you improve your asset management planning? How do you monitor that improvement to make sure it is effective? Ross … [Read more...]
Video: Plan Improvement and Monitoring – Summary Series
In this summary video, Ross discusses the following subtopics: assessing the status of your asset management identifying your improvement actions prioritizing those actions developing an improvement plan delivering that improvement plan monitoring the outcomes Watch Ross give quick overview of each item above through the whiteboard session. Please feel free to post your questions … [Read more...]
Important things to Consider in Planning Assumptions and Confidence Levels
The people making the decisions around funding want to know how confident are you on the data you have used to develop the expenditure forecasts projected in your asset management plan. In this video, Ross provides details on: significant assumptions you need to consider; some of the data confidence levels you have to unpack starting with the inventory; the processes you need to … [Read more...]
Know the Importance of Business Processes and Practices in the Asset Management Plan
Ross says this topic creates a linking section in your Asset Management Plan, describing how you organize yourself to delivering an asset management plan through to best practices in the industry. The Business Processes and Practices topic matches in some degree what IPWEA published in the International Infrastructure Management Manual but Ross provides further practical knowledge in this video … [Read more...]
Video: Planning Assumptions and Confidence Levels – Summary Series
In the course of making your infrastructure asset management plan, knowing the planning assumptions and confidence levels enhances your planning projections, which this summary video explains. In this video, Ross presents the issues that will arise when you start about thinking your planning assumptions and confidence levels. At the whiteboard session, Ross started with documenting … [Read more...]
Video: Business Processes and Practices – Summary Series
How knowledgeable are you about the business processes and practices in infrastructure asset management? Watch the "Business Processes and Practices – Summary Series" video and enhance your knowledge through Ross' whiteboard session. In this video, Ross presents an overview of the topic through a diagram and a list of items to consider and learn in Business Processes and Practices. WATCH … [Read more...]
How to Develop Financial Summary and Funding for Asset Management Planning
What are the items included in preparing your financial summary and funding? How will you classify and detail expenditures? What are the other asset management planning items to be considered in developing financial funding? In the "Financial Summary and Funding - FULL VIDEO", Ross detailed the answers to the questions above. His detailed illustration through the whiteboard session … [Read more...]
Video: Financial Summary and Funding – Summary Series
In this five-minute video, Ross explained about the financial aspects to be considered in asset management. Watch him talk about revenue, capital, internal funding and expenditure plus other related topics. Through the demonstration that Ross has shown, you will learn the dynamics of preparing your Financial Summary and Funding in this summary series video Watch it now! Please register a … [Read more...]
