US Government Efficiency Solution - Deployment of an Asset Management Framework

This Asset Management Partnership (AMP) Newsletter continues a miniseries that covers how the US Government is failing to manage its built infrastructure and how this problem can be solved.

See preceding articles at:

• US Government Efficiency Failure – Built Infrastructure Accounting
• US Government Efficiency Failure – Real Property Inventory Management
• US Government Efficiency Failure – Program Management Blind Spot
• US Government Efficiency Failure – Understanding Enterprise Risk
• US Government Efficiency Failure – Transparency and Accountability
• US Government Efficiency Solution – Disciplined Asset Management

Last week's article turned the corner and began detailing solutions for the U.S. Government's failure to efficiently manage its built infrastructure portfolio, which consumes no less than $70 billion annually. As detailed in earlier articles, this is a fiduciary failure. This serious accusation indicates that the U.S. Government has a responsibility to efficiently manage its portfolio of built infrastructure on behalf of American taxpayers, and that it has failed in this responsibility.

This fiduciary failure is the focus of a recent National Academies’ report titled – Strategies to Renew Federal Facilities. This article, and the rest of this miniseries, will build upon the findings and recommendations from this report. The article starts with the assertion of the principle: Systems are Greater than Goals.

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has developed a body of knowledge and methodology on how to implement this principle. "Strategies to Renew Federal Facilities" applies this principle to address the identified fiduciary failure through the implementation of ISO 55000 – Asset Management System standard principles and requirements

The reasoning behind this is that ISO 55000 focuses on managing the value generated from and through assets. Here, the asset is the real property inventory Federal agencies depend on to achieve their mission objectives. Asset management involves coordinating activities that care for these assets and evaluating performance, risk, and change through the lens of economic efficiency, i.e., how to manage assets to best generate value in achieving each agency's mission objectives.

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