5 most undervalued (often missed) business requirements of asset management soft

Posted by tedmark on June 16th, 2015

  1. Collaboration between different teams. 2. Innovation in managing your assets 3. Understanding of Competitive advantage offered by asset management software. 4. Ensuring your asset management solution is a good fit for your industry, and 5. Making sure your asset management software fits into your current workflows or defines better workflows…are the 5 most overlooked (in most cases even missed) requirements when it comes choosing the right asset management solution.

Managing your assets efficiently and effectively is a collaborative effort; most companies do not take this into account whilst deciding on their next asset management software. For example; Maintenance schedule of assets/downtime should be proactively communicated to your operations teams by the asset management solution, it should not require an email from maintenance manager. Similarly, maintenance engineers should be able to chat/communicate with electrical/instrumentation engineers from the asset software, communication outside the asset management software hardly provides insightful data for the next maintenance.

Things that worked in the 90’s maybe tested and verified way of managing assets but may not necessarily be the best way of managing assets today. Innovation is the mother of competitive advantage; most businesses look at asset management solutions with a view to enhance efficiency of the current processes. However, a question needs to be asked on the effectiveness and relevance of current workflows and methods. Your asset management software decision should help you to innovate on your asset management practices.

Competitive advantage is often associated with new products, first to market, business scale etc. But if your assets work more often than your competitors and if your assets are better managed then your competitors - then your assets bring in incremental competitive advantage to your business. One of the reasons a particular airline can get away by charging twice or in some cases 3 times the budget airline prices is because their business assets and services are more efficient. Your asset management software should allow you to create a platform for incremental competitive advantage by implementing efficient asset management practices.

Asset management software designed for your industry and well adopted by your industry will pave the way for easy adoption. Most businesses tend to overlook this point, mostly industry relevant asset management solutions do not come from branded and well-known companies but from small niche software companies. There is a trade-off here, just going with an industry standard solution may not offer you competitive advantage but at the same you will not reinvent the wheel.

Most businesses focus on the features of their asset management software which is a valid approach. But there is a scope to dig deep and see how well your shortlisted (or chosen) asset management solutions fit into your existing workflows (or even better, help you to define more efficient workflows). Free trials and demonstrations with your data should help you to get a clear understanding of software-workflow fit.

Sure all of this takes time, an easier way to jumpstart your initial shortlist and comparison of asset management software is at comparesoft.co.uk. You will get your comparison within a minute with video demonstrations and product brochures.

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