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Acknowledgments

The field of advising good practices is deeply indebted to the innovations that have sprung from reflections around the problems to which existing solutions were so far unsuited. Obviously, Asset Management is no exception. In all logic, I would like to thank the life cycle of assets in the first place, and the attached necessity to think in a systematic manner in order to improve our performances. Without it, Asset Management would probably not exist.

Similarly, I must thank the contradictions that we are immerged in daily. Without them, there would be no need to seek out new equilibriums to base our steps and our decisions on. We would like to be able to tread these new itineraries with certitude. Yet these do not really exist. I therefore thank my work in Asset Management for making me aware of these uncertainties, and for the humility it has taught me: it is a necessary quality for any human and scientific progress.

Taken alone, these factors were not sufficient to incite me to write this book. The industrial field and its infrastructures, with its pressing demands and inevitable urgency, challenge our ideas, our outlook,and our behavior in order to comply with the expectations of results, or at least their necessity.

At the core of all these elements are the people closest to me. I am fully aware of the extraordinary effort it was to consent to help me with this task, and I am grateful for it.

To Edmea Adell, my partner throughout this journey of learning, implementing, and passing on the teachings of Asset Management. I owe her infinite thanks for the quality of her advice, her persistent support of my work, and her unfailing dedication to the promotion of Asset Management in France and around the world.

To the teams of Assetsman, longstanding colleagues, and excellent professionals in France and in Brazil, with whom I share a task that requires high levels of knowledge, rigor, and dedication. Handling the tools of Asset Management for our clients is the focal point of our daily lives and of our work in common.

To Benjamin Carde and Emile Poivet, whose work on language has made this book fluid enough to satisfy the expectations of any type of reader.

Finally, a special inscription for my sons, Gabriel and Julien, who have grown to become dedicated professionals in their own fields, and who have already assimilated the difference between “looking after assets daily” and “the Asset Management in the long run.”