This paper won the NAMie award for best Asset Management Paper at the 2015 IMFE/IPWEA International Conference in June 2015 at Rotorua, New Zealand. In September 2015, this paper has been adapted for the Pacific Water Conference.

1. Pacific Asset Management
Infrastructure Asset Management
Making Everything as Simple as Possible

2. Ross Waugh
Director
Waugh Infrastructure Management
Pacific Water Conference,
PNG, September 2015

3. Question?
Are we making infrastructure asset management too
complicated?
IAM - Making Everything as Simple as Possible

4. Many different resources available now
IAM has moved from an ‘art’ to a ‘science’ in the past decade
IAM - Making Everything as Simple as Possible

5. Engineer’s like complexity – why?
IAM - Making Everything as Simple as Possible

6. By adding layer upon layer of complexity, we run the risk of turning
infrastructure asset management into a ‘black box’ that no one else can
understand.
“Trust me I know what I am doing” is not accepted by society, especially when
accompanied by requests for billions of dollars of public funds
IAM - Making Everything as Simple as Possible

7. Albert Einstein:
“Keep everything as simple as possible, but not simpler”
IAM - Making Everything as Simple as Possible

8. Steve Jobs: “Simple can be harder than complex”
IAM - Making Everything as Simple as Possible

9. To simplify, you must have a full understanding and
mastery of the subject or topic
Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs recognised this and
made their challenges
Simplifying is much more of a professional
challenge that just adding complexity
IAM - Making Everything as Simple as Possible

10. An example of making things simple:
AkvoFlow – smartphone based field
surveys http://akvo.org
Originally developed for WASH
surveys, can be adapted easily to
other uses – Vanuatu cyclone
damage reports
IAM - Making Everything as Simple as Possible

11. Simple IAM Diagram
IAM - Making Everything as Simple as Possible
LEVELS OF SERVICE
FUTURE DEMAND
RISK
LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT
- Operational
- Maintenance
- Renewals
- New Capital
- Disposal
OPTIMISATION
FINANCIALS
Expenditure
- Operations & Maintenance
- Renewals
- Capital
[Depreciation]
Revenue
- Fees, Charges, Tariffs
- Loans
- Grants/Funding
- Bonds

12. Simple IAM Diagram
IAM - Making Everything as Simple as Possible
LEVELS OF SERVICE
FUTURE DEMAND
RISK
LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT
- Operational
- Maintenance
- Renewals
- New Capital
- Disposal
OPTIMISATION
FINANCIALS
Expenditure
- Operations & Maintenance
- Renewals
- Capital
[Depreciation]
Revenue
- Fees, Charges, Tariffs
- Loans
- Grants/Funding
- Bonds
GAP
GAP
GAP

13. Simple IAM Diagram
IAM - Making Everything as Simple as Possible
LEVELS OF SERVICE
FUTURE DEMAND
RISK
LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT
- Operational
- Maintenance
- Renewals
- New Capital
- Disposal
OPTIMISATION
FINANCIALS
Expenditure
- Operations & Maintenance
- Renewals
- Capital
[Depreciation]
Revenue
- Fees, Charges, Tariffs
- Loans
- Grants/Funding
- Bonds

14. Practice & Maturity Diagram
IAM - Making Everything as Simple as Possible
ADVANCED
IAMPRACTICELEVEL
INTERMEDIATECOREMINIMUM
MATURE
ORGANISATIONAL AM MATURITY
INTERMEDIATECORE

15. Practice & Maturity Diagram
IAM - Making Everything as Simple as Possible
ADVANCED
IAMPRACTICELEVEL
INTERMEDIATECOREMINIMUM
MATURE
ORGANISATIONAL AM MATURITY
INTERMEDIATECORE

16. Practice & Maturity Diagram
IAM - Making Everything as Simple as Possible
ADVANCED
IAMPRACTICELEVEL
INTERMEDIATECOREMINIMUM
MATURE
ORGANISATIONAL AM MATURITY
INTERMEDIATECORE

17. Saw Tooth Diagram
IAM - Making Everything as Simple as Possible
ORGANISATIONPRACTICE/MATURITY
ADVANCEDINTERMEDIATE
TIME (YRS)
CORE

18. Kevin Brady, NZ Auditor General:
‘Make sure you have the ‘right debate’, June 2007
Communication of infrastructure asset management issues, choices and costs
still key:
- communication to Communities, Governance, Management
8 years after this challenge by the Auditor General –
NZ are doing better, and communicating issues with
greater clarity. There is still a lot of room for
improvement
IAM - Making Everything as Simple as Possible

19. Challenges from this paper:
• Make it simple
• Get your thinking clean
• Apply this to your work, and
• Communicate clearly
IAM - Making Everything as Simple as Possible

20. Questions?
IAM - Making Everything as Simple as Possible