txt Advanced Asset Management: Practical Implementation Guide and Workbook

The textbook is the syllabus. This is the lab manual.

Most asset management initiatives stall the same way. The book gets read, the slide deck gets built, the frameworks go up on the wall, and nobody knows where to start.

The Practical Implementation Guide and Workbook is the companion to Advanced Asset Management: From Assets to Decisions. The book explains what advanced asset management is and why it matters. This workbook is where the practice gets built: eight facilitated modules, each one ending in a written artifact your program will keep using.

Inside the workbook:

• Eight modules that follow the book's progression, from an honest baseline to sustaining the practice over the long run
• 32 worksheets and ready-to-adapt templates, printed at 8.5 x 11 with room to write
• "How to run this module" guides for every module: how long it takes, who needs to be in the room, the sequence, what good looks like, and the traps to avoid
• Scoring guidance for the maturity, phase, and criticality assessments, so a team can score consistently and defend the result
• Risk tools: criticality scoring sheet, risk matrix calibration, treatment selection, and a risk acceptance form
• Capital and backlog tools: deficiency-to-need translation, backlog segmentation, deferred maintenance and FCI tracking, and a capital project justification template
• A 25-element self-assessment radar for setting goals that fit your organization rather than chasing a perfect score
• Workshop schedules and a facilitator's playbook for running the modules as half-day and full-day sessions
• Free Excel companion tools with fillable, calculating versions of the worksheets (download details inside book)

Three ways to use it: work through the modules on your own as a self-paced implementation guide, run them as a workshop series with your team, or reach for a single form when you need a criticality sheet, a risk acceptance, or a capital case.

Who it is for: asset managers, facilities and public works directors, utility and plant managers, maintenance and reliability leaders, capital planners, and the consultants and trainers who support them.

Designed to be used alongside Advanced Asset Management: From Assets to Decisions, which develops each concept in full. Chapter references throughout the workbook point back to the book.

About the author: Scott Stukel is an asset management consultant, speaker, and author, and the founder of Whites Elm Consulting. For more than three decades he has helped organizations across education, utilities, manufacturing, government, and infrastructure improve asset performance, reduce risk, and make informed investment decisions.