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Asset prioritisation strategy: A quantitative approach

Carlos M. Alvarado and Daniel R. Schriever
Journal of Business Continuity & Emergency Planning, 1 (1), 37-46 (2006)
https://doi.org/10.69554/BXDN8825

Abstract

When an organisation has many demands competing for limited asset management resources, it must allocate such resources in a way that will have the most impact on its core mission while minimising business continuity risk. Logically, resources should go to managing those assets that are most important to the strategy and operations of the organisation. In reality, however, most business continuity/risk/facility managers lack a disciplined, data-driven approach for setting management and investment priorities. The difficulty in attempting to align funding/management attention with higher priority assets is that the often qualitative concept of ‘important’ must be quantified. This paper will explain how to develop a quantitative measure — an asset priority index (API) — to score each asset in the portfolio to reflect criteria important to an organisation. It also describes how the API can be used as part of an overarching asset portfolio management strategy, and how business continuity/risk managers can involve senior management in asset management decisions. The authors will explore three basic questions: • How can API help organisations better manage their assets? • What is the process for involving upper management and stakeholders in creating an API? • How have other organisations successfully implemented the API framework?

Keywords: business alignment; asset prioritisation; business continuity; enterprise risk management; asset management strategy; asset management planning; mission fit

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Author's Biography

Carlos M. Alvarado PE has over 12 years of experience in asset privatisation, infrastructure management and project management. Carlos, an Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton, received his Bachelor of Science (cum laude) and his Master of Science in mechanical engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He also has an MBA with a concentration in finance from Columbia University. Carlos is a registered professional engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the Republic of Panama. He is certified by the Project Management Institute as a project management professional.

Daniel R. Schriever PE has 12 years of professional experience encompassing infrastructure engineering design, cost estimating and financial analysis. In addition to design and preparation of construction documents, his engineering experience includes conducting construction feasibility studies, environmental impact analysis and facility operation studies. His cost estimating and analysis experience includes market analysis, recapitalisation planning, life-cycle cost estimating, cost modelling, cost-benefit analysis and economic and requirements analysis. A licensed professional engineer and certified cost estimator/analyst, Dan holds an MBA from Loyola College of Maryland and a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering from Brigham Young University.

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Alvarado, Carlos M. and Schriever, Daniel R. (2006, September 1). Asset prioritisation strategy: A quantitative approach. In the Journal of Business Continuity & Emergency Planning, Volume 1, Issue 1. https://doi.org/10.69554/BXDN8825.

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