Corporate Asset Management for Industrial Companies: An Integrated Business Driven Approach

The corporate asset strategy is a function of four factors, namely (1) corporate values, vision, objectives and strategy, (2) technology in use, (3) strategic position and other characteristics of the company, and (4) characteristics of relevant markets. The asset strategy determines whether assets should be enhanced by capital investment, maintained to upkeep their position in the corporate production system or disposed. We regard marked dynamics as a key driver for corporate asset management decisions and present a set of tools for analysing of business environment from the standpoint of production assets. As corporate level decisions own the widest degree of freedom and they are by nature design phase activities one of the main and the same time the most interesting and challenging research area is on the corporate level planning and decision making.