Lessons learned the hard way, what worked, what didn’t, and practical insight you can put to work today.
Nearly one in five districts canceled classes in 2024-25 because of building problems. What to put in front of voters besides the construction number.
Every reliability report and capital request depends on what a technician typed at closeout. What to capture and how to fix it this quarter.
When a program runs on a few people working extraordinary hours, it looks healthy until one of them leaves.
What to settle before you migrate so you don’t carry every current problem onto a new platform.
PM programs grow one task at a time and almost never shrink. A simple review that puts labor back on the failures that matter.
A working steering team is one of the most valuable governance assets a program has. How to charter one, stand it up, and mentor it past the awkward first year.
If your supervisors and planners are working out of spreadsheets again, look at the workflow before the software. A field-tested checklist before you call the vendor.
Two workshops, run in the right order with the right people in the room, set the scope, budget, and leadership alignment that the rest of the program lives or dies by. A practitioner’s guide.
Internal champions outlast consultants. A simple framework for building asset-management capability that survives turnover and budget cycles.
A composite case study from stalled implementations we’ve recovered. Why EAM rollouts stall, what changes when adoption climbs past 90%, and what to copy.
You don’t need a complete asset registry to make defensible capital calls. How to triage condition data and start prioritizing this fiscal year.
The asset register you build today shapes every report, every workflow, and every capital decision for the next ten years. Get this one right.
Boards don’t want condition scores. They want risk, consequence, and a clear story. A short guide to translating asset data into capital narrative.
Why the way we fund school buildings keeps sending districts back to voters for more.
What drives the backlog in school facilities, and why it keeps growing.
Promethean action in asset management, and what it takes to change how things have always been done.
Hard-won lessons from EAM and Maximo implementations.
How to decide which maintenance work gets done first.
What the standard means for your organization, in plain terms.
How IoT lets assets tell us what they need.
Why you need them, what they’re used for, and how to set them up.
Which metrics matter in asset management and how to use them.
