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Facilities Staffing Requirements for the Veterans Health Administration - Capital Asset Inventory Database Management and Strategic Capital: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
Facilities Staffing Requirements for the Veterans Health Administration - Capital Asset Inventory Database Management and Strategic Capital: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
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O'Neill finds that many organizations have no O&M plan. He described a simple capital planning process that begins with conducting an inventory and assessment of assets and proceeds to an iterative process of developing project requirements and budget, defining deliverables, implementing plans, and then measuring success through frequent audits and continuous adjustment and improvement.
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of the enterprise and are presented using effective VM, Komarek said they can bring about the desired responses and even change organizational behavior over the long term in ways that produce sustainable positive results. Key to this desired culture change is the use of VM-based management as a core component of an LOS, which Komarek defined as "the culture of process stability and continuous improvement under an Enterprise Excellence Model." (The Enterprise Excellence Model, in turn, is "how the entire enterprise integrates and responds to ensure performance" through a continuous, iterative process of planningdoing-checking-acting.)
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Minor construction projects are selected by the Veterans Affairs Central Office (VACO) and major construction projects are selected by Congress.
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They believe as well that managing the BIM model requires a core staff -- and if that is not possible, an outside BIM operator should be engaged. Brian Yolitz, associate vice chancellor, facilities, Minnesota State University, summed up the day's discussion by saying that there are several factors driving workload around capital planning, data management, and project delivery.
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" and how these types of capabilities are adapted and applied in the commercial space. They are developing an installation common operating picture called VTIME to leverage cutting-edge capabilities in the information space using big data, predictive analytics, and artificial intelligence, in order to fit the independent models and individual business processes together to produce optimized outcomes in which the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
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And they want to achieve total asset visibility as to cost of service, financial reporting, and infrastructure portfolio performance. Mitchell's brief included business plan development for the facilities operations enterprise shared service (one of 22 enterprise shared services)
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He contends that if more is spent on smart design in the capital expenditures phase, the overall "whole of life" costs will shrink. Duke defined optimal project delivery, which has three basic elements: it is outcome driven; it has to embody effective risk transfer; and it has to be culturally supported.
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Rather than having a competitive pool that competes on each task order, you have a contractual price basis in the form of the unit price book and a coefficient so that the contractor and the owner can collaboratively scope price and execute the work. At the delivery order level, it is a single award process.
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Accordingly, the committee should consider the overall staffing requirements to support a culture of continuous improvement. This includes consideration of the best tools and technologies for collecting and managing accurate data and measuring facility performance.
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The second point is that "You have to know how the numbers were put in to begin with to know how they are rolled out." He said that a program such as BUILDER allows for flexibility in using the numbers one way for a local work order versus another way for a capital investment. Alvarez noted that there is a difference in the way organizations such as the Defense Health Agency and the VA look at BUILDER.
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2019. Facilities Staffing Requirements for the Veterans Health Administration -- Capital Asset Inventory Database Management and Strategic Capital: Proceedings of a Workshop -- in Brief.
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