Newsletter 25 April 2023

A special 1-hour edition of the ALN Th@3 pm ET discussion program this week will introduce the ALN Cities & Places Asset Leadership Board. Co-Chairs Claude Tankersley, Director of Operations, St. Petersburg, Florida and Jennifer Mims, Jacobs, Director of Asset Management will introduce the goals and objectives of the Board in a conversation facilitated by Jim Dieter, ALN CEO and Jacobs Senior Expert Asset Management Consultant. See more about Mr. Tankersley below in People. Register at this...
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Newsletter 18 April 2023

Our ALN Th@3 pm ET guests this week are the partners in Briggs & Blair Consulting who will address the damage to the intangible assets of brand, reputation, and financial detriment of sexual harassment in the workplace. This is an issue we have not addressed before and it will be special program. See more below in People. Register at this link. Jacobs: Challenging today.Reinventing tomorrow. People Amanda Briggs and Allen Blair are retired officers who ser...
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Newsletter 11 April 2023

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April 12, 2023 offers an embarrassment of riches for ALN web programming. We are facilitating the ALN BIMStorm – Higher Education Final Presentation at 4 pm Eastern. We are then co-facilitating the Value and Benefits from Asset Management with the Australian Asset Management Council at 6 pm Eastern. See more about both far below. Congratulations to ALN Patron Member Definitive Logic, which has been named a 2023 Best Place to Work in Virginia by Virginia Business magazine. Great job Team DL! ...
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Newsletter 4 April 2023

This is now officially the Asset Leadership Network Line of Sight newsletter. Thanks again to Mark Knight, PE, MCE, FIAM, Senior Management Consultant, 1898 & Co. for suggesting the title, which represents the clear communication between the C-Suite and boots-on-the-ground that gets asset management done. It is the evolution of human tools and processes that allows this clear Line-of-Sight understanding of mission activities that enabled Asset Management to birth the concept of Asset Lea...
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Newsletter 28 March 2023

See more in Upcoming Events below about the final NPMA Asset Management Awareness Month event featuring the ALN’s good friend, Dr. Douglas Goetz. As part of Asset Management Awareness Month, see this essay about how the ALN BIMStorm – Higher Education program made history last week by being the first public demonstration we know of to showcase Artificial Intelligence creating a Building Information Model with rooms and personal property assets in the rooms. Congratulations to ALN Platinum Me...
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Newsletter 21 March 2023

Continue celebrating March as Asset Management Awareness Month. See more in Upcoming Events below about NPMA events and the ALN BIMStorm – Higher Education web program March 22 at 4 pm Eastern. On ALN Th@3 pm ET this week we will talk with Richard Culbertson about what may be a systemic failure of asset management recognition by U.S. gas utilities and distributors. See more below in People. Register here. Jacobs: Challenging today.Reinventing tomorrow. People ...
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Newsletter 14 March 2023

We are in the heart of NPMA’s Asset Management Awareness Month. See more in Upcoming Events below. Jacobs: Challenging today.Reinventing tomorrow. People David Totman will be our guest on ALN Th@3 pm ET this week and will talk about the recent ASCE “Fly In” activities on Capitol Hill. Mr. Totman is Thought Leader Strategy with Autodesk’s Innovyze and he is the American Society of Civil Engineers voting member to the US Technical Advisory Group to the ISO Techn...
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Newsletter 7 March 2023

Our Australian Asset Management colleague, Peter Kohler, informed us that the U.S. DoD was instrumental in establishing the asset management systems approach that led Australia to become a leading country in this industry. But the U.S. commercial industry did not necessarily cash this asset management “Defense Dividend” as early as Australia did. This week’s newsletter shows how the thoughts and actions of people highly involved in the U.S. DoD are still leading us forward in different, but uni...
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Newsletter 28 February 2023

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Asset management can be complex, messy, frustrating, and challenging – yet ultimately highly beneficial to an organization’s mission. The process of helping an organization improve with a structured approach to asset management is captured very well in proven ALN BIMStorm web-based workshops. A new session of interactive workshops starting again on March 1 at 4 pm Eastern. See more below in Sources and far below in Upcoming Events. Register at this link. Jacobs: Challenging today...
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Newsletter 21 February 2023

Sometimes, every couple of decades, things just come together. Beginning in the early 2000s ONUMA, Inc., an ALN Platinum Member, has been running BIMStorms as online brainstorms using Building Information Models as a way to plan for the entire lifecycle of assets – facilities, capital equipment, personal property, fleets, infrastructure and all assets. Kimon Onuma will facilitate another free BIMStorm with the ALN starting March 1, 2022. See more below in People and Upcoming events or see Mr...
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