You may have heard the term “treat data like an asset”, but have wondered what this really means. We have now written a free White Paper titled “Data is an asset” to explain: The nature of the data asset The
How complete is your asset inventory?
For infrastructure, transport and utilities organisations, the asset inventory is the central list of all the assets of interest to the organisation. This is a critical enabler for most asset management activities. If an asset does not appear in an
“Manage your data quality” training course now available
Since we have been running our data quality course for some time, we decided that it was time for a full update and refresh of the course. This has now been completed and we have just ‘road-tested’ the new exercises
What are your data beliefs?
This year’s Institute of Asset Management lecture was given by cognitive psychologist and specialist in leadership performance, behavioural change and culture, Javier Bajer. Javier explained in a very engaging manner three fallacies about change and I thought the final one makes a
Can you do effective Business Analysis without Data Analysis?
A colleague and I attended a well respected Business Analysis conference this week. One of things that we both noticed was that, whilst there was much talk of lean/agile approaches and customer engagement, there was precious little talk about data
Asset management is not the same for everyone…
I have been to a few asset related conferences recently. The contrasts between two of them were quite striking, so I thought this might be a good place to discuss them….
The permanence of data
Have you ever thought about the permanence of data? Is data a permanent or a temporary thing? In some ways, data is a very transient thing – the conversation that prompted this post was with a colleague who was concerned that
Do you know where your swans are?
People often use the analogy of a swan gliding gracefully over the water whilst its feet are frantically paddling below the water as a way of encouraging people to make things look effortless and not to distract people with all
BIM is for an asset’s life, not just for Christmas
OK, a slightly tongue in cheek title, but an important point to consider. For many people BIM (Building Information Modelling) is a discipline that you utilise during a capital project – and whilst we are on that topic, any construction
If data is an asset, what type of asset is it?
We are often reminded to treat data as an asset, in fact this is something I do quite regularly with my work frequently covering both data and asset management. Thinking of data as an asset helps people to think about data