This document discusses three topics: asset management, skills and competence, and artificial intelligence/big data. For asset management, it emphasizes the importance of thoroughly understanding an organization's assets, how they perform, are maintained, and when they will be exhausted. It recommends adopting a risk-based approach to infrastructure maintenance. Regarding skills and competence, it questions current HR approaches to training and development, noting that training budgets are often cut and trained employees may leave. Finally, it addresses the large amount of data organizations now have and questions how it will be used, whether artificial intelligence will replace human decisions, and if maintenance will be computer-led.

1. How fit are your organisations?

2. I'm going to cover
• Asset management
• Skills and competence
• Artificial intelligence and Big data

3. Asset management
• The big question for all organisations
• How well do you know your asset
• How does your asset perform
• How do you look after it
• When will it be exhausted?

4. Well managed highway infrastructure
says
• WMHI CoP –
• Recommendation 7 –Risk Based Approach
• “A risk based approach should be adopted for all aspects of
highway infrastructure maintenance, including setting levels of
service, inspections, responses, resilience, priorities and
programmes.”
• WMHI CoP –
• Recommendation 6 –An Integrated Network
• “The highway network should be considered as an integrated set
of assets when developing highway infrastructure maintenance
policies.”

5. questions
• Are asset management plans fit for purpose?
• Is self assessment worthy of its prominence?
• Should we consider joint authority AM plans?

6. Skills and competence- how we
approach it at present?
• HR tell us
• We send them off to academic study
• We get a levy payment for the training
• We only employ trained people
• They learn on the job
• We have a structured training and development programme
for every employee

7. Do you agree with the following
statements
• Our staff are our greatest asset
• Training budgets are easy to cut
• If we train people they often leave
• If we don’t train people they often stay
• HR tell me what training is necessary
• I usually have some training budget available at the end of
the financial year

8. Staff are our biggest asset
• Do you have a staff assessment plan or policy?
Investing in staff can realise significant benefits such as
• Increased reputation
• Increased morale
• Increased productivity

9. Data- lots of it , how do we use it?
• We face a data overload
• What are we going to do with it?
• Will AI take over our decisions?
• Computer led maintenance

10. Richard Hayes
www.theihe.org