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Wherever You Go, There You Are

In the many years that I have been involved in work and asset management, I have seen a pattern of behavior that is worth examining. Organizations often find themselves struggling to realize value out of their CMMS and they get frustrated.  The beast that is work and asset management always seems to have the upper hand and they decide they need some sort of magical weapon to slay that beast.  They need the Infinity Gauntlet from the Marvel Cinematic Universe or one of those magical swords like in the movie Excalibur.   Whatever metaphor you like, they are looking for a silver bullet to kill the big, scary monster and they believe that a new software platform will be that silver bullet for them. It doesn't seem to matter if their current platform has been the industry leading platform for decades.  They decide that that just translates to being stuck in the "old" ways of doing business.  It doesn't matter if their current platform is a smaller, more artisana...
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Who Am I and What is The LeanWAM Principle?

 Looks like you've stumbled across my webpage.  I am not sure what you misspelled in your Google search to get here but I am glad you made it. My name is Jason Todd and I created The LeanWAM Principle, a unique approach to work and asset management for smaller, lean organizations that lack the staffing levels necessary to support traditional work and asset management strategies but still need to realize value from their CMMS software. I have many years of experience utilizing CMMS software from just about every user role you can imagine in industries like steel production, power generation, and municipal utilities.  I have been the journeyman maintenance person receiving their preventative and predictive maintenance work orders and having to write reactive or repair work orders to document maintenance against assets.  I have been the user designing new preventative maintenance programs or revising tasks and instructions on existing preventative maintenance programs i...
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