J.D. Solomon
Why Does Your Asset Management Program Lack Asset Values? (and why it matters!)
Asset management for facilities and infrastructure has fallen into the leadership realm of gearheads and data managers. The result is...
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J.D. Solomon
Jun 13, 2022
Three Things You Need to Know About Capital Project Prioritization
Three of the essential things to know about capital project prioritization are: The selected approach should consistent with the maturity...
News
May 14, 2022
Communicating Complex Changes While Dodging Sacred Cows
JD Solomon serves as a co-author with Dr. Diane Lauritsen for this paper at the 2022 Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting (JASM) in Grand...
J.D. Solomon
Apr 11, 2022
Five Ways to More Effectively Facilitate Business Cases
The foundations of systems thinking and facilitation apply to business cases because the analysis requires a group to establish the...
J.D. Solomon
Apr 4, 2022
Five Ways to More Effectively Facilitate Capital Program Prioritization
The foundations of systems thinking and facilitation apply to capital programs because the analysis requires a group to establish the...
J.D. Solomon
Mar 28, 2022
Five Ways to More Effectively Facilitate Block Diagrams
This article discusses five ways to effectively facilitate block diagrams by conducting pre-session exchanges, asking powerful questions,...
J.D. Solomon
Feb 21, 2022
Using SOAP Will Save Your Criticality Analysis Time and Money
SOAP can result in staff time savings of up to 70% compared to traditional methods.
J.D. Solomon
Jan 27, 2022
Observed in Practice: 5 Reasons for Not Doing Written Business Cases
Organizations are constantly frustrated in the capital projects planning process and developing appropriate Operations and Maintenance...
J.D. Solomon
Jan 20, 2022
Operationalize Risk by Making It More Understandable To Front-Line Staff
Think about the greatest risk you have encountered in the past five years. Maybe it was related to physical injury or serious sickness....
News
Jan 9, 2022
Getting Your Boss's Boss to Understand at 68th International Reliability & Maintainability Symposium
RAMS is still on-go for the end of January. Organizers report strong registration numbers, despite COVID cases and usual high...
J.D. Solomon
Jan 3, 2022
Facilitation, Soft and Hard
There is a lot to unpack in the standard definition of facilitation. "A facilitated session is a highly structured meeting in which the...
News
Dec 28, 2021
Improving Communications by "Getting Your Staff to Understand" at UMC 2022
MPW Board Chair Rick Crosby, former OWASA General Manager Ed Kerwin, NASA's Tim Adams, and JD Solomon will host a half-day workshop on...
J.D. Solomon
Dec 8, 2021
Better Data Quality is a Significant Outcome of Forecasting Lifecycle Costs
A lifecycle replacement forecast provides a financial forecast of the total investment needed by an organization to keep its facilities...
News
Nov 21, 2021
"Communicating to Decision Makers" Workshop Once Again at RAMS 2022
JD Solomon will provide his 8-hour workshop at the 68th International Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS) in Tuscon,...
J.D. Solomon
Nov 5, 2021
Eight Tips for Improving Your Risk Matrices
Risk matrices are one way to perform risk-based prioritization. The approach is qualitative, or describes the quality of the risks, and...
J.D. Solomon
Sep 21, 2020
Organizational Capacity: Assess and Align Capability, Information, and Decision Nexus For Success
The alignment of an organization’s capabilities, information support systems, and decision making defines its organizational capacity.
J.D. Solomon
Sep 6, 2020
The Top Five Sites For Evaluating Your Hurricane Risks
Understanding your risks relative to an uncertain future usually involves some type of model.
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