Melbourne In Person Workshop on Shared Accountability Model Development – 31 August

Asset Management is a core business capability, which requires active and participative engagement across the organisation.

Leadership and culture are pivotal to set and sustain behaviours for success, asset management culture and leadership is a shared accountability function. An understanding of accountability drives business success, asset management accountability will be explored in this presentation/workshop.

About the Speaker:

Nicholas Phillips is the Executive Director and Principal Consultant of MACE Consulting (Aust) Pty Ltd specialising in Asset Management, Lifecycle Cost and Performance Analysis, and Reliability and Maintainability Analysis.

His career has centred on the application of asset management principles and processes that deliver service focussed outcomes for asset intensive operations in private and public sectors.

Nicholas has held increasingly senior positions over his professional career, carrying out pioneering work in the introduction of asset management systems and processes.

Nicholas has assisted organisations to align stakeholder demands to service delivery outcomes by understanding the inter-dependencies between business functions across the asset portfolio entire lifecycle.

In recent years, Nicholas has:

• developed, implemented, and monitored improvement in the management system for asset management in public sector agencies.
• delivered reliability, availability and maintainability analysis and reports for infrastructure projects.
• delivered asset management fundamentals training for the Asset Management Council.
• maintained the operation of MACE Consulting.

Nicholas’s career is highlighted by a continuous connection to service delivery assets, where he has managed rollingstock maintenance, rail infrastructure asset strategy and engineering, implemented the Victorian public sector Asset Management Accountability Framework and evaluated/monitored compliance (and maturity).

Other professional activities include extensive and long-term contribution to the professional development of the technical discipline of asset management and maintenance engineering.

Nicholas adds value by creating the ecology to build a well-developed capability in asset management (people, processes, information, and technology) to adapt and respond to rapidly changing community, economic, social, stakeholder and business environments.