Fleet Management Awareness Month

Posted on January 5, 2016 by access account

The National Property Management Association (NPMA) and Mercury Associates are partnering to kick off its first ever Fleet Management Awareness Month in 2016. Activities include a series of educational webinars, helpful tips, opportunities to collaborate, and knowledge to help drive your career forward, and are all complimentary and open to both members and non-members of the NPMA. More information and registration information is available here.

Asset Leadership Impact Awards Presented at National Press Club

Posted on December 8, 2015 by access account

The Asset Leadership Network non-profit association presented its 2015 Asset Leadership Impact Awards at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on October 21, 2015. The Awards highlight asset management projects, project teams, the introduction of a piece legislation and the author a ground breaking book on the surprisingly high level of government assets worldwide. All the award winners show paths to improve asset management for governments as well as private companies. Jim Dieter, E...

Federal property managers plagued by new type of data woes

Posted on October 23, 2015 by access account

Emily Kopp of Federal News Radio published a story today highlight some of the most provocative points made during the Federal Leadership in Asset Management Policy Forum at the National Academy of Sciences, co-hosted by the Asset Leadership Network. http://federalnewsradio.com/facilitiesfleet/2015/10/data-woes-new-sort-plague-federal-property-managers/

Culbertson’s Corner: ISO55000 and Volkswagen

Posted on September 24, 2015September 25, 2015 by access account

by Rich Culbertson Most of us have heard the latest news on Volkswagen and the scandal surrounding their intention deception of the EPA on their clean diesel engines. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/23/business/international/volkswagen-diesel-car-scandal.html?_r=0 I believe it is important to understand what happened with Volkswagen, and their apparent success since 2009 of being able fool so many for so long on the pollution of their diesel products. So far this practice a...

Dag Detter to Keynote Asset Management Policy Forum

Posted on September 13, 2015 by access account

DAG DETTER, co-author of The Public Wealth of Nations – How Management of Public Assets Can Boost or Bust Economic Growth has been named as the Keynote speaker at the Federal Leadership in Asset Management Policy Forum, to be held Tuesday and Wednesday, October 20th and 21st, 2015 at the National Academy of Sciences Auditorium in Washington, D.C. The Federal Facilities Council (FFC) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and the Asset Leadership Network (ALN) are h...

ALN Announces Federal Leadership in Asset Management Policy Forum — October 20-21, 2015

Posted on September 1, 2015October 8, 2015 by access account

The Federal Facilities Council (FFC) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and the Asset Leadership Network (ALN) will host a leadership forum to improve Federal asset management policies and strategies. The Federal government is one of the largest asset owners in the world, yet the Federal government remains slow to adopt policies and strategies that could redirect potentially billions of dollars in the American economy to more productive use. This forum will bring to...

How Governments Lose Trillions Mismanaging Property

Posted on July 17, 2015 by access account

Peter R. Orszag, previously director of the Office of Management and Budget, writes an article for Bloomberg View in which he states that governments across the world have an estimated $75 trillion worth of commercial assets -- roughly 50 percent more than the $54 trillion in global public debt -- and these assets are typically quite poorly managed. Further, he states "the returns from better management would be enormous. A 2 percentage-point increase in the return on public commercial assets w...

ALN Releases Draft Executive Order on Asset Management

Posted on July 14, 2015 by access account

The Asset Leadership Network has developed a Draft Executive Order for submission and consideration by the President to adopt the principles inherent to ISO 55000 and establish the policy that Federal agencies use a common system for asset management. The outcome is that federal government organizations will manage and utilize assets in an efficient, effective and economical manner while achieving their organizational missions and the collective objectives of the Executive Branch in an accounta...

Jack Dempsey Op-Ed on ISO 55000 and the Draft Executive Order

Posted on July 13, 2015July 14, 2015 by access account

Jack Dempsey, who currently serves the ALN as Chief Technical Officer, wrote an Op-Ed for the ENR Future Tech Newsletter on October 28, 2014. ENR (Engineering News Record) is the most prominent periodical for the construction industry. ENR Future Tech Newsletter has a readership of approximately 75,000 professionals. In the Op-Ed, Jack ties together the the need for asset management practices as embodied in ISO 55000 Asset Management Standards, the Asset Leadership Network, and the Draft Exe...

Serious Assets – and Asset Mismanagement

Posted on July 9, 2015July 9, 2015 by access account

The New York Times reports the Office of Personnel Management did not possess an inventory of all the computer servers and devices with access to its networks, and did not require anyone gaining access to information from the outside to use the kind of basic authentication techniques that most Americans use for online banking. How can this happen? Now I'm sure the Equipment Control Matrix (ECM) needs to be updated to be the Asset Control Matrix (ACM) - ASTM E2608. And even more sure that ISO ...