IMPLEMENTING ASSET MANAGEMENT IN THE CITY OF LONDON

摘要

Comprehensive asset management practises provide a broad range of benefits to organizations with regard to efficiency, improved service and robust, defendable decision making. The development of asset management standardized practises are intended to evolve the management of assets into a future state where decision-makers can optimize their choices based on comparable information and do so with relative ease. This presentation offers an effective framework for implementing asset management and shows how this framework is being applied in the City of London, Ontario. The City's implementation approach is summarized as follows: 1) identify best practice; 2) establish governance; 3) complete current state of asset management analysis; 4) develop asset management policy and strategies; 5) develop State of Infrastructure Report and Corporate Asset Management Plan; 6) undertake pilot trials implementing the asset management strategies in two service areas; 7) Acquire and implement asset management software and 8) roll out standardized practices to all service areas. The City of London has completed the first steps in the implementation approach and are currently executing pilot trials in the Transportation and Parks & Recreation service areas. Early results of the program are being felt across the City, particularly the identification of the City's infrastructure gap which has garnered significant attention in budget discussions. The results of the pilot trials will help guide implementation of the asset management program across the remainder of the City's service areas and ultimately support effective and sustainable infrastructure investment decisions well into the future.