The Āpōpō Guide is an online resource for those practicing infrastructure asset management in Aotearoa New Zealand, available exclusively to Āpōpō Members.
The Āpōpō Guide weaves together the principles of te ao Māori with our interpretation of international best practice in infrastructure asset management.
From the beginning the Āpōpō Guide aligned with the ISO 5500x standards, but now we’ve ensured the Āpōpō Guide aligns with the GFMAM Asset Management Landscape as well – including detailed mapping available at the start of the Guide. Each section also references the relevant ISO standard and subjects from the Landscape, ensuring the information you are reading is consistent with other guidance internationally.
What is GFMAM?
The Global Forum on Maintenance & Asset Management (GFMAM) has been established with the aim of collaboratively sharing advancements, knowledge and standards in maintenance and asset management.
Āpōpō became the fifteenth member of GFMAM in May 2024.
What is the GFMAM Asset Management Landscape?
Source: GFMAM
GFMAM publish the Asset Management Landscape (the third edition is available here) which includes 40 competencies in seven subject areas in an Asset Management Landscape. It is an internationally recognised document that provides a detailed and structured view of the key concepts, principles, and practices essential for effective asset management.
The AM Landscape is designed to complement the ISO 5500x suite of standards and related materials, which primarily focus on the implementation and use of a Management System. The AM Landscape is a framework designed to enable Asset Management knowledge and practices so that they can be compared, contrasted, and aligned around a common understanding of the discipline of Asset Management.
In addition, the learning objectives in our digital badge programme have been tweaked to match to the language in the Asset Management Landscape. This exercise has also helped us identify gaps which our programme can fill over time. (Note we can typically work with our training facilitators to cover these subjects via in-person courses now.)
These mapping exercises help us work with learning and development professionals where a competency framework is often used to do a gap analysis on current knowledge and where training can help address those gaps.
