[Themaintainers] Fwd: 2024 - 40 years of Asset Management

Tue Dec 5 21:17:40 EST 2023

Hi everyone - 

Please see below for an update & request from Penny Burns and her remarkable group, Talking Infrastructure.

Andy

> Begin forwarded message:
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> From: Talking Infrastructure <ti-newsletter at talkinginfrastructure.com>
> Subject: 2024 - 40 years of Asset Management
> Date: December 4, 2023 at 10:59:26 PM EST
> To: <andy at themaintainers.org>
> Reply-To: Talking Infrastructure <ti-newsletter at talkinginfrastructure.com>
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> View this email in your browser <https://mailchi.mp/0966e2391ce7/2024-40-years-of-asset-management?e=2d1c52f2cc>
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> In this issue 40 Years of Asset Management and New Book, The Story of Asset Management
> Next year, 2024, Asset Management will be celebrating 40 years of existence. This is a golden opportunity for us to reinforce the key messages of Asset Management in the world.
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> For its first 30 years, as most of you probably know, I was actively engaged in developing and promoting the field through research. Starting from 1984, with the South Australia public service and Parliament, I then, from 1994, moved onto the first policy and practice professional newsletter, the Asset Management Quarterly (which quickly became the fortnightly Strategic Asset Management). The International Asset Management Competitions followed in 1996 and then, in 1998, our first open website in Asset Management covering all assets: amqi.com <http://amqi.com/>.
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> But by 2014, with the launch of ISO 55000, it was time to close the newsletter (with its 400th issue) and to tackle the next step in advanced Asset Management, which was to use our Asset Management knowledge to actively assist in the decision making for new assets.
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> That was how TALKING INFRASTRUCTURE came into creation. The need for more considered decision making for our future infrastructure has only grown, and become more urgent. Asset Managers everywhere know this. Future fitness is our goal. Our 40 year celebrations will be an opportunity to take this message not only to managers of infrastructure but also to those who decide, design, construct, fund and vote for our infrastructure.
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> We started small, just 5 people. We now have over 500 members. The year 2024 presents an opportunity not only to grow in numbers, but in activity.
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> Our board members have specialised roles. Jeff Roorda, despite his onerous role with the Blue Mountains City Council, a heritage area of great beauty and great challenges, is looking to mesh infrastructure development with Asset Management and planetary consideration. Ruth Wallsgrove, through her extensive training work, particularly in the USA and Canada, is looking to change the focus from asset acquisition to a focus on the whole life provision of asset service. Gregory Punshon, one of the earliest to successfully use community communication to showcase asset management, is searching new ways of getting our messages across in social media, and Lou Cripps is continuously testing and developing lines of leadership on the ground. My own focus is infrastructure economics and decision making.
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> So we already have a wide scope - but we need more. To avoid the administrative burden of board membership, we are looking to develop a circle of advisors, who, through their own interests and work, can share the fun of guiding Talking infrastructure and setting future directions. A number of associations exist to help develop an Asset Management career.
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> We are different but complementary. Like infrastructure itself, our purpose is to support the wider community. There is a lot of satisfaction to be had in this and we invite you to join us, become an advisor, and enjoy it too. Tell us what area of Asset Management and decision making you would like to see a change in.
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> Your ideas for celebrating our 40th Anniversary are also much needed and much welcomed.
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> AND NOW The Story of Asset Management
> After more than ten years of deliberation and four years of writing, our story, or at least the first ten years of it, explaining how and why it started, is now available.
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> As well as making sense of how such a major change took place in Australia at the time and how quickly it was taken up, it is also full of fun anecdotes sure to resonate with anyone who has been in the field for any length of time, as well as useful information for those starting out.
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> You can get it in kindle, epub or print on demand.  All the links can be found on www.TalkingInfrastructure.com/TAMS <https://talkinginfrastructure.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=90bc6966d93e230a006d5691f&id=dc2636fbc0&e=2d1c52f2cc>.
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> Please read, and don’t hesitate to tell me what you think.
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> Also, and let others know as well.
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> All the very best,
> Penny
> Dr Penny Burns,
> Chair, Talking Infrastructure
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Andrew L. Russell, Ph.D.
+ Officer-in-Charge, SUNY Polytechnic Institute
+ Co-Director, The Maintainers <https://themaintainers.org/>
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