Aug 19, 2026 · 25 min · 10 segments
On Industry Trends & Insights, **Bob Francis** speaks with **Mark LaPlante** of Octave about ISO 55000, asset management standards, AI-enabled business value analysis, and the importance of linking…
Mark LaPlanteGuest
Bob FrancisHost
And if I may offer one last token of wisdom is with the advent of AI, it's imperative on all of us humans, right? All of us people involved in asset management become earnest students of asset management because the danger has always been that if you focus on the technology and let the technology dictate how you manage assets or how you perform as an asset management organization, you will fail.

Let asset management system dictate the technology that you select and take it from someone who's written the standards and someone who talks to a machine for about 30 to 40 hours a week.

And if I may offer one last token of wisdom is with the advent of AI, it's imperative on all of us humans, right? All of us people involved in asset management become earnest students of asset management because the danger has always been that if you focus on the technology and let the technology dictate how you manage assets or how you perform as an asset management organization, you will fail.

Let asset management system dictate the technology that you select and take it from someone who's written the standards and someone who talks to a machine for about 30 to 40 hours a week.
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