ABOUT OUR COMPANY

Amistra can provide professional consulting services under the category of Asset Management Services, and in 23 Additional Services specialty areas on a standalone basis or in support of other Category areas.
Our services approach is based on the Winning Strategy Methodology™ (“WSM”) we have created. WSM is an effective and practical approach to developing strategy execution plans that achieve measurable results and unlock value and organizational potential. Our approach is summarized in our logo: Strategy | Projects | Results, as shown in the graphic below:
Strategy, and more specifically strategy execution, is the critical first step where corporate strategic plans are first analyzed and then re synthesized as project plans, which we term transformation charters. These charters are more than the traditional “scope, schedule, cost” documents traditionally used to initiate projects. Transformation charters are carefully constructed to ensure that projects become investment vehicles that deliver the organization, assets and capabilities envisioned by the corporate strategy. To verify that projects have fully completed the transformation charter, the projects are also required to deliver the results management mechanisms to measure both project and ongoing operational outcomes.
The following sections describe our approach to Asset Management Services and Additional Services.

• Asset Management, Energy and Environment, and Strategic Modeling
• I like that this points to ‘Go to Insights’ – let’s keep that.

Additional services related to Asset Management:

• Technical Editing
• Analysis
• Business Case Development/Economic Analysis
• Contract management
• Contract negotiation
• Data collection, evaluation, analysis and interpretation
• Feasibility studies
• Grant and assistance applications
• Implementation including commissioning and start
• Inspection
• Implementation including commissioning and start
• Inspection
• Investigation and research
• Modelling
• Planning
• Preparation of studies
• Profiling
• Project management
• Report preparation
• Review
• Stakeholder consultation and engagement
• Strategy development
• Training

Asset Enterprise Indicators are quantifiable measures derived from the strategic factors identified during master planning that are necessary for a strong, vibrant community. The graphic on the left is a simple example; in practice the factors and resulting indicators are derived for each municipality. Here, for illustrative purposes, we show four strategic factors (Proper Case) and linking variables (lower case); each is defined so they are quantifiable.

For example, Growing and Safe Communities is quantified based on population, crime rate and other similar statistics. Quantifying the variable allows us to create a powerful decision support model based and not merely a picture.
The importance of the AEI model is twofold. First, it establishes a holistic approach by showing how assets and asset management are coupled to a other strategic factors necessary to sustain vibrant and healthy communities. Second, is that we can in fact build a model to provide objective decision support regarding the effectiveness of various asset investment scenarios to senior decision makers.