The danger of success (again)

The war against ignorance in physical asset management is pretty much over and we won.

We were screaming about it in the 1980's and by the early part of the 21st century there is literally no major asset intensive company or institution that does not realize the fundamental importance of physical asset management to their businesses chances at success.Regardless of whether they work for a utility, a mining house, a resource company or any other form of asset intensive organization.

One of the ugly side effect of this however is the appearance of fleets of internal or contractor tactics developers.

You would think I would be happy about that right...?

The problem I see often, though not always, is that they turn the exercise from one focused on asset performance to one focused on data manipulation.

This is often evident when you look at these companies and you see failing or even appalling asset performance, even though there are teams of people squirreling away working like mad wallpapering the entire equipment register with asset tactics....

And for some reason the warning bells don't ring.