Line-of-Sight Newsletter 13 February 2024

Kahua’s construction program and project management software enables innovation with collaborative purpose-built solutions for owners, program managers, general contractors and subcontractors. People Jon Shelness, President, My Property ID Registry, is a tireless advocate of organizations better understanding the value and uses of 21st century tracing technology to assist law enforcement in returning the billions in U.S. dollars of lost and stolen pr...
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Line-of-Sight Newsletter 6 February 2024

The National Academies’ Federal Facility Council and the ALN held a program on January 10, 2024 that contained a wealth of information and dynamic interactive discussions. We previously highlighted the keynote by the United Nations’ Daniel Platz, Senior Economic Affairs Officer Department of Social and Economic Affairs. In this edition, we are featuring three more video presentations from the day. See the videos at this link. Mentor APM - Intelligent Asset Management for Industry...
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Line-of-Sight Newsletter 30 January 2024

Our members and supporters have such good content so far this year, we are referring to them below. Just back from the ISO TC 251 meeting in Brazil, Lindsay Ziegler, President, Andrew James Advisory Group, and Chair of the US TAG to ISO TC 251, will talk with ALN’s Jim Dieter and Nick Knoke about the event and its impact on asset management at this week’s ALN Th@3 pm ET. Register at this link. Wednesday 31 January at 4 pm Eastern the Value and Benefits from Asset Management program co-fac...
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Line-of-Sight Newsletter 23 January 2024

2024 continues with more insightful programs, including the NIBS AI Program “Watch Party and Discussion” for this weeks’ innovative ALN Th@3 PM ET (see more in People). Also, next week’s Value and Benefits from Asset Management” featuring MentorAPM’s client, the aboriginal community of Pormpuraaw, Cape York, Australia will be our first look at asset management in First Nations communities (see more below in Ideas). Mentor APM - Intelligent Asset Management for Industry & Infr...
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ALN Line-of-Sight Newsletter Special Edition

Below is another Special Edition of ALN Line-of-site that reports on the powerful ways events from last week will positively impact 2024 and the next 10 years of the ALN. But first, we are happy to point to another episode in the Value and Benefits from Asset Management web series co-hosted with Australia’s Asset Management Council. See details about the Water-focused asset management web program on Wednesday 31 January at 4 pm Eastern below in Upcoming Events and at this link. ...
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ALN Line-of-Sight Newsletter Special Events Edition

A week of Asset Leadership Network activities in Washington DC started last night at the National Academies’ Transportation Research Board Asset Management Committee reception.  The ALN was honored to be the guest of Earl Jackson, CFO, Denver City and County, Transportation & Infrastructure Department. Mr. Jackson leveraged ALN Executive Briefings to have his team create an Asset Management Policy and a Strategic Asset Management Plan. More about these documents will be shared later...
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Newsletter 2 January 2023

Happy New Year everyone! The new calendar year always gives us a chance to look forward and make plans for creating better outcomes in the next 12 months. These often come in the form of hokey resolutions that often don’t amount to anything. However, asset management is very much a measurement activity, so we are using this special issue of the ALN Line-of-Site newsletter to list some of what we want to be measured by for the year. After reviewing our list, feel free to send in what you w...
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Newsletter 19 December 2023

This is the time of the year when uplifting sentiments, food, and gifts are offered to tide us over to the start of another trip around the Sun. But in many significant ways, things aren’t that uplifting. But we do find something a little renewing in the thought that a leadership approach to asset management can address key problems all governments face. As a bi-partisan, non-denominational approach to operating organizations, asset management governance might not be an uplifting message, bu...
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Newsletter 12 December 2023

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Today’s ALN Line of Sight newsletter is being written from the CGI Momentum Day event at the Arlington, Virginia Renaissance Capitol View hotel conference center. The event is focused on success stories in federal budgeting, financial, and acquisitions requirements that advance financial stewardship. There are excellent presentations on AI in financial management, financial data as a strategic asset, cloud computing, road mapping, and more. How financial data and asset data integration can i...
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Newsletter 5 December 2023

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Humans in the northern hemisphere have festivals of lights in December because that is when it is darkest. On the upcoming first Thursday of December, ALN Th@3 pm ET we celebrate 10 years of ALN lighting the way for leaders of asset management in their organizations, in their countries, and around the world. We will spend some time talking about milestones in our journey together, but the celebration of past achievements will quickly turn into planning for the future. We will open the floor ...
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