by Martin Kerr | | Asset Management, Change Management, Leadership
Context On any given day, around the world, the business functions of Commercial and Finance quietly tick along. Commercial seeking to get the best outcome from a contract, challenging variations, claiming extensions of time, and sometimes playing bad cop on behalf of...
by Martin Kerr | | Asset Management, Change Management, Leadership
Change Management and Risk Management (A Perfect Match?) Change is constant, and managing it well separates successful organisations from the ones that keep putting out fires. I usually default to ISO 31000, the international standard for risk management, as a...
by Martin Kerr | | Asset Management
Explaining Asset Management with 3 Easy Questions In a recent workshop, there was a lot of confusion, mixed feelings (and emotions) on what Asset Management is and why it’s important. There was a wide variety of business functions, ranging from Finance,...
by Martin Kerr | | Asset Management, Change Management, Leadership
Every senior leader needs to know ISO 55000 and ISO 10020 In boardrooms and executive reviews across the world, asset management is high on the agenda. Organisations are under pressure to deliver more value, more sustainably, from the assets they already own, operate...
by Martin Kerr | | Asset Management, Change Management
In 2016 Harvard Business Review (HBR) published an article by Eric Almquist, John Senior, and Nicolas Bloch with the title “The Elements of Value”. It had the subtitle “Measuring-and delivering-what consumers really want”. I am going to draw a parallel to this HBR...
by Martin Kerr | | Asset Management, Change Management, Culture, Leadership
When we think of assets and asset management, it is easy to picture physical things, such as maintenance, spare parts, engineering, etc. Assets are all around us. We interact with assets daily, whether physical/tangible or non-physical/intangible. An asset, by...
