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 … [Read more...]
Video: Sustainability – Summary Series (Introduction to Practical Asset Management)
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...]
Asset Management Information System – How To Develop an Effective One
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 is 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 plan, 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 … [Read more...]
Asset Management Plan Improvement and Monitoring – Summary Series
In this summary video, Ross discusses the following subtopics: assessing the status of your asset management plan identifying your improvement actions prioritizing those actions developing an improvement plan delivering that improvement plan monitoring the outcomes Watch Ross gave a quick overview of each asset management plan subtopic above through the whiteboard session in the … [Read more...]
Asset Management Planning Assumptions and Confidence Levels Explained
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 in your asset management plan; some of the data confidence levels you have to unpack starting with the inventory; the … [Read more...]
Asset Management Plan and the Importance of Business Processes and Practices
Ross says this topic creates a linking section in your Asset Management Plan, describing how you organize yourself to delivering an asset management plan using 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. 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...]
Infrastructure Asset Management Video: Business Processes and Practices
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. He also showed a list of items to consider and learn about Business Processes and … [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 infrastructure 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 … [Read more...]
Infrastructure Asset Management Video: Financial Summary and Funding – Summary Series
In this five-minute video, Ross explained about the financial aspects to be considered in infrastructure asset management. Watch him talk about revenue, capital, internal funding, financial aspects, and expenditure plus other infrastructure asset management related topics. Through the demonstration that Ross has shown, you will learn the dynamics of preparing your Financial Summary and … [Read more...]
