AM Competency Framework (AMCF)

The Canadian Network of Asset Managers (CNAM) has taken its Asset Management Competency Framework for Canadian Communities (AMCF) and expanded it into this comprehensive online resource for improving the AM capacity of public sector organizations in Canada and enhancing the capabilities of AM practitioners in those organizations.

The Asset Management Competencies

The Asset Management Competencies (AM Competencies) are the knowledge, skills, and behaviours that a Canadian community’ workforce should possess to best deliver their AM program. The AM practitioners who demonstrate proficiency in these twelve competencies will be able to successfully support delivery of a community’s AM projects, integrate AM practices into organizational practices, and develop and sustain an AM culture in the organization. Follow the links below to learn about the details of each AM Competency. Then explore the rest of the AMCF Web Portal to learn how the AM Competencies fit into the rest of the AMCF framework, how to assess and develop the AM Competencies on an individual and team basis, how to implement a complete AM Competency Management Program, and discover all the activities that utilize the AM Competencies.        

People & Leadership Category

Leading Others

enables practitioners to guide initiatives and achieve results through others. It’s about trust, communication, accountability, and purpose.

Collaboration

enables practitioners to initiate relationships and maintain them in a way that benefits both parties. It’s about emotional intelligence, facilitation, teamwork, and empowerment

Policy & Governance Category

Contextual Analysis

enables practitioners to see the different factors that affect the community. It’s about identifying and analyzing influences, relationships, needs, and interests and engaging with stakeholders.

Holistic Thinking

allows practitioners to see the connections between things and how they change over time. It’s about aligning viewpoints, concepts, systems, life cycles, and contexts into a cohesive understanding.

Planning & Decision-Making Category

Decision-Making

enables practitioners to make choices that successfully solve or prevent emerging problems in a timely manner. It’s about aligning and applying the right information, tools, and processes at the right time.

Risk Analysis

allows practitioners to identify potential future adverse events, assess the likelihood of those events occurring, and their potential consequences. It’s about understanding and applying appropriate probability concepts, assessment techniques, analytical methods, and common infrastructure risk components.

Data & Information Category

Information Management

enables practitioners to create value and meet objectives through the systematic collection, governance, administration, analysis, and communication of information and knowledge assets.

Financial Analysis

enables practitioners to support budgeting, decision-making, and long-term infrastructure investment planning. It’s about integrating financial and AM functions, evaluating life cycle financial impacts, managing financial constraints, and effectively communicating financial information to stakeholders.

AM Practice Category

AM Expertise

encompasses the knowledge, concepts, terminology, artifacts, processes, methods, and skills specific to the practice of AM. It’s about staying up-to-date with and effectively applying AM practices, and also developing AM capabilities in others.

Service Focus

allows a practitioner to understand and address what stakeholder’s value, while balancing their needs against cost and risk. It’s about fully realizing value by measuring, analyzing, and evaluating performance and quality from the stakeholder’s perspective.

Life Cycle Delivery Category

Infrastructure Management

is a set of practices for effectively selecting, designing, constructing, operating, maintaining, and renewing an asset to sustainably deliver value to stakeholders. It’s about analyzing and selecting the right actions, meeting the right performance standards, and using the right management practices throughout the asset’s life cycle to optimize service, costs, and risks.

Continuous Improvement

is continually work towards understanding and implementing changes that improve processes, practices, and outcomes. It encompasses quality assurance, best practices, standardization, positive cultural change, and data control and improvement.

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