The June Exchange Weekend was held on Saturday 31st May and Sunday 1st June at Crown Convention Centre, Perth for all AM Council office bearers. Below is a brief report from the Chapter Chairs, Advisors and Commissioners, the AMBoK Team and the Board on the outcomes of the weekend.
Chapter Chairs
While there was deep concern that only five Chapter Chairs were able to attend the weekend, moving forward, the group made agreements concerning better communication and idea sharing among Chapters as well as across AM Council officers as a whole.
- Agreement to build closer relationships with Chapter Chairs outside of exchange meetings and try to inform all Chapters of calendar events two years in advance with topics and dates. This allows for the AM Council Executive to have an event schedule to be able to attend meetings in their area and increase member-officer contact.
- Suggestion to hold a quarterly WebEx with AM Council Executive to provide updates as well as a mechanism to allow Chapter members input into AMBoK process on project work, publications and activities etc.
- Agreement that a regular newsletter from the AM Council would allow an effective transfer of information to members at meetings about events, advisors and commissioner activities. Other methods for this form of communication include Chapter ‘Meeting Point’ and a practitioner’s forum for feedback opportunities, both on the web.
- Other discussions included alerting relevant Chapters to Asset Management Award entrants in their area, and different options and possibilities regarding Chapter events.
Commissioners and Advisors (Executive)
The six Commissioners and Advisors met, they are:
- Andrew Morgan, Accreditation Commissioner;
- Jim Kennedy, Sensei;
- Peter Kohler, the AMBoK Commissioner;
- Greg Williams, AMPEAK Advisor;
- Kieran Skelton Chapter Commissioner; and
- Ernst Krauss, Editor and Journal Advisor.
This group forms the AM Council Executive who will support the Chief Executive Officer in the development, and delivery, of the strategic plan and provide independent assurance to the Board as required. The group agreed to develop a charter and position descriptions to help clarify the roles and purpose. A key objective of this group will be to drive and promote transparency and sharing across the Asset Management Council.
AMBoK
A project proposal for “Cost, Risk and Performance” was discussed, based on presentation from Michael Killeen. This proposal will be tested through the new Project Submission and Approval Process. Outcomes from the project are likely to include:
- Information for the Asset Management Journal;
- New material for the Asset Management Fundamentals Course; and
- Possible a master class / ‘Day 2’ AMF material on cost, risk and performance balance.
Mapping competencies to our models and to the ISO55001 shall statements was discussed, and a project proposal is under development.
The group also discussed the draft Code of Conduct, Conflict of Interest and Procedure for Handling Complaints.
Board
- New Chair of the Board was elected: Glenn Ingram
- Approval of the IT proposal to improve the user interface experience.
- Important meetings with the AM Council Executive to clarify the organisational design and the intent of the design to operationalise the roles and responsibilities.
- Note – Commissioners and advisors undertook to formalise the collective views for review by the board.
- Approval to sign a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding between:
- ABRAMAM;
- PEMAC;
- SMRP; and
- AM Council
- to develop the ISO 5001 Assessor Certification Program. This initiative is in line with membership feedback received 12 months ago.
- An update to the board was delivered by the Nominations Committee.
- Strategic objectives were released via the strategic plan 2014 – 2018.
- Capturing the history of the AM Council was initiated this weekend for further input and development. The intention is this delivers a history of the journey of the AM Council and will be continually updated.
- Vision, Mission stakeholder and strategic areas communicated to office bearers. It was reinforced that this is underpinned by our values.