Congratulations to Kahua, which is having its Federal Construction Forum 2025 today at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C. We thank Kahua for including the ALN in the program and we look forward to sharing outcomes from the event.
This week on ALN Th@3 pm ET, we will share insights on the National Facility Management Technology 2025 conference. See more below in People.
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| Cyril Verley, Founder and CEO, CDV Systems, and Kimon Onuma, President, Onuma, Inc. will be on ALN Th@3 pm ET this week to report on the National Facility Management Technology 2025 conference in Baltimore 2 weeks ago. Mr. Verley and Mr. Onuma are architects and software developers. Their “architectural art of problem solving” approach to FM technology leads them to establishing a Business Process Model first so they can identify the actual issues an organization needs to address before providing technical solutions. They have been partnering for three years and will share solutions to common owner problems – such as not requiring use of secure, open standards to share information, and not using the same organizing principles to address data management for all categories of assets. Their involvement with new ALN Pilot Project Network member facil.ai will also be addressed. Register here. |
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The Federal Acquisition Regulations is a 2,034 page document that is getting a much needed overhaul according to a number of reports in WashingtonTechnology and on LinkedIn. However, information from the U.S. Federal Government on the subject is not easily acquired. The ALN is establishing an exploratory committee to determine what Asset Management-Centric contributions will benefit the FAR. Email info@AssetLeadership.com if you would like to contribute to creating ALN recommendations to the FAR Overhaul. Thank you to Jon Shelness for alerting us to this significant Asset Management issue.
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| The ALN Book Club Discussion of “Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI” has resulted in clear connections between Asset Management, AI, and the governance needed to ensure our tools and processes provide us the results we collectively desire. On Wednesday 9 April at 3 pm Eastern, we will be discussion the first chapters of the book, which includes this text, “The genius of the U.S. Constitution is that by acknowledging that it is a legal fiction created for human beings, it was able to provide mechanisms to reach agreement on amending itself and remedying its own injustices.” With the self-correcting capabilities of Article V of the Constitution, a continual improvement mechanism was included in building and maintaining the asset that is the United States of America. There is much to discuss – please join the discussion. Register at this link. |