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Well managed assets and facilities mean better business performance
Whatever your business, long-term success depends on efficient, high-performance assets. Our Advisory Services team helps clients in industries as varied as transport, energy and water to optimise the acquisition, operation, maintenance and divestment of the assets that their businesses depend on. Our service has two dimensions: asset strategy and asset operations, meaning we can help clients at both the broadest and most tactical levels.
Assets and operations must work hand-in-hand. That’s why taking a new approach to your business’ assets can improve your wider operations: from the level of service offered to financial performance achieved, from regulatory compliance to your overall position in the marketplace.
From sharper strategy to improved performance
First, we ask questions:
Does the existing asset strategy align with the organisation’s other, overall goals?
Are the right people and skills and supporting logistics in place?
What risks are posed by the existing assets and operational model?
From this point we work closely with clients to define a more effective asset management plan, making the most of each individual asset portfolio. That can mean anything from setting up new organisational structures, offering training and skills, to optimising lifecycle maintenance and management, and identifying potential future risks to assets’ resilience.
Make your acquisitions count
The transaction is done. You’ve taken receipt of a complicated asset. You now need to adapt your business plan to gain maximum value from the investment. Our advisory team are experts in helping clients get the most out of asset acquisitions, particularly after mergers or other corporate purchases.
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Brisbane International Cruise Terminal
Arup is developing an Operational Readiness strategy to set the direction for the opening of the terminal in 2020. The new $158m facility will allow the world’s largest cruise ships to visit Brisbane and grow the number of international and domestic visitors to the region.
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United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS)
Arup is advising the Bangladeshi government and UNOPS on asset management practices to develop stronger, more resilient infrastructure and transport systems that will improve the country’s economy.
Are you ready for major transitions?
There’s no more pivotal business moment than opening a new airport, hotel, hospital, sports stadium, or other major public asset. Open before you’re truly ready and the launch will be riddled by incomplete facilities, system failures, poor customer service and ongoing teething problems. The social media response to day-one errors is savage and reputations long built can be swept away.
To successfully plan and manage these unique moments of change we’ve developed a specialist service: Operational Readiness, Activation and Transition (ORAT). Operational readiness projects typically involve high profile public launches, complex combinations of new services or technologies, significant public interfaces, demanding security dimensions, among many other considerations. Depending on the sector this could mean moving staff to a new headquarters, opening a new airport terminal, or shifting services to a new data centre – all without a break in the level of service the end users expect and demand.
Arup is an expert in operational readiness, providing confidence on the most critical large-scale transitions.
Discover how our team can help
You can access our Advisory Services through regional consultants around the world. Wherever you’re based, we can help you look beyond your sector to explore new sources of inspiration and identify opportunities for growth.
