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I like to think I was searching for Asset Management many years before I heard the term.

This raises a fundamentalist question: what is the deep essence of AM that I sought? Maintenance optimisation, asset data IT, modelling or planning processes: they are all in the mix.

Here’s a link to a Substack-length exploration. Let us know what you think.

Histories of Asset Management: What can we learn from the different strands?