Where is the Asset Management Discipline Going?

AM Foundational Thinking

This installment concludes the Foundational Thinking miniseries. This miniseries provided a perspective that is only one thread in a large asset management canvas. This canvas is made from many overlapping threads that represent shared and similar experiences from Asset Managers all over the world. The thread in this Foundational Thinking miniseries detailed a chronology of asset management development for one industry sector, that is for US Federal facility asset management. Other threads chronicle similar asset management stories. When woven together they create a canvas, a foundation that many different types of organizations can use to paint a bright and successful future.

This miniseries’ storyline began in the late 1980s with Fragile Foundations that alerted policy makers that US public infrastructure was beginning a period of accelerated decline. The seeds for this decline were planted decades before. Coming home from World War II the US directed energy into major building progr…