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3 WAYS TO STREAMLINE PROJECT MANAGEMENT WITH OPX Organizing infrastructure data and reporting on large municipal and utility projects can sometimes feel impossible. Here are three ways to create a streamlined experience for project management and asset management in your organization. BY DINORAH SANCHEZ, CITYWORKS SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT
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n the world of public infrastructure, asset management is an all-encompassing practice that seeks to understand an organization’s assets, costs, risks, strategy, and policy. Asset managers have always understood the value of extending an asset’s useful life, and maintaining expected services has been a critical point of focus due to the Covid-19 pandemic, disaster
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recovery needs, and infrastructure reinvestment initiatives. Asset management practices can help an organization tackle these opportunities and challenges through effective work management, a.k.a, knowing what work is getting done, where, when, why, and how often. Effective asset management requires a massive amount of data and documentation: from asset
information to work activities, from contract issuance to budget management, and from federal reimbursement requests to project tracking. OpX is a new software application that provides a GIS-centric experience for managing data and documentation for ongoing operational programs, large-scale infrastructure projects, and emergency
