The MAP Toolkit and Infrastructure Asset Management Learning

In 2013, when I started Online Writing Niche, my former online marketing company here in New Zealand, I got the opportunity to create and manage the websites of two companies that engage in infrastructure asset management consulting.

For those unfamiliar with the term, Wikipedia’s definition of infrastructure asset management is “the integrated, multidisciplinary set of strategies in sustaining public infrastructure assets such as water treatment facilities, sewer lines, roads, utility grids, bridges, and railways.”

My initial learning happened in a very informal way.

Because I’m uploading content, supervising and editing video transcriptions, and composing eBooks, I have to read the text, listen to the audio recording, and edit the videos on infrastructure asset management.

So, I can’t avoid learning about the topic.

How does infrastructure asset management relate to church ministry management?

If one wants to see the connection of the church ministry management with infrastructure asset management, one needs to view the corporate and social aspects of the church.

Yes, it is a religious institution whose primary concern is the spiritual development of its members, but the church is also a corporate entity that leaders need to manage well.

Whether or not your church is formally registered as a corporation in the Companies Office (New Zealand) or Securities Commission (other countries), your church is a corporate body.

What infrastructure asset management learning relates to church ministry management?

Below are some of the learning I garnered, which principles and processes apply to the MAP toolkit that I’ve created:

• The planning process in infrastructure asset management enables government authorities to have a short-term or long-term outlook.
• The importance of asset inventory and mapping
• Asking the right questions to get to the correct answers
• Risk management
• Sustainability

I will not elaborate on each item above as I would like you to see more of its basic principles integrated into the MAP Toolkit.