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| + | ISO 5000 defines Asset management as the "coordinated activity of an organization to realize value from assets". In turn, Assets are defined as follows: "An asset is an item, thing or entity that has potential or actual value to an organization". This is deliberately wider than physical assets but these form an important focus for more organizations. | ||
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Revision as of 08:55, 24 April 2014
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Definition
Asset management is Management of organization's assets
Summary
Description
Asset management is an approach for the management of a nuclear organization to consider, in a balanced fashion, the entirety of its assets. This includes management of tangible assets such as personnel and other animate creatures, facilities, equipment, fiscal investment, inventory, and intangible assets such as knowledge, see Fig 1. Broadly defined, asset management refers to any system that cost-effectively monitors and maintains organization's assets.
As knowledge management concerns itself with knowledge, at least part of which is organization's intangible asset, KM and asset management partly overlap, see Fig 1.
Approaches such as the balanced scorecard can be employed to assure appropriately distributed attention to the whole of an organization’s resources. Also a well-planned KM system can contribute to meeting such challenges.
ISO 5000 definition
ISO 5000 defines Asset management as the "coordinated activity of an organization to realize value from assets". In turn, Assets are defined as follows: "An asset is an item, thing or entity that has potential or actual value to an organization". This is deliberately wider than physical assets but these form an important focus for more organizations.
