--- title: "Is ISO 55000 an Oxymoron?" description: "With an international standard now in place, asset management is set to gain deserved recognition as a career, qualification, department and strategy." image: https://www.pragmaworld.net/wp-content/uploads/resources.jpg canonical: https://www.pragmaworld.net/resource/iso-55000-oxymoron-merely-inner-circle-asset-management/ url: https://pragma-world.getmd.ai/resource/iso-55000-oxymoron-merely-inner-circle-asset-management/.md last_converted: 2026-10-06T20:49:31.708Z --- # ISO 55000 an oxymoron March 21, 2017Now that asset management has an international standard, it will receive the deserved status as a career, a qualification, a department, a strategy and even a subject on the MBA curriculum. Download white paper ##### More content ##### Spare Parts Management To effectively minimise the downtime of assets, the right spares must be in stock when... Find out more ##### Managing change Traditional attempts of using “carrots” and “sticks” to manage change are no longer sufficient. Find out more ##### ISO 55000 compliant This white paper investigates the claim made by suppliers of Enterprise Asset Management Systems (EAMS)... Find out more ##### White Paper | Extracting the Business Value from Maintenance Work Order Feedback Work order feedback shouldn’t be administration for its own sake. This white paper shows how... Find out more ##### Connectedness for synergy in smart Enterprise Asset Management Business and technology leaders are bombarded with information about the elements of Industry 4.0. Yet... Find out more ##### Condition Based Maintenance Investigating the monitoring of critical assets to minimise functional failure, downtime and the cost of... Find out more ##### White Paper | From Machines to Services: Building a Digital Backbone for OEM Service Excellence OEMs strive to scale their service offerings, but many encounter a fundamental barrier: fragmented data... Find out more ##### Successfully implementing and managing a focused improvement programme The Focused Improvement process is found in many asset-intensive companies. For the purpose of consistency... Find out more ##### Managing Linear Assets Asset owners in industries like oil and gas, roads and utilities have unique asset management... Find out more ##### Asset risk management Industry leaders are 25% more likely than their competitors to have a standardised risk assessment... Find out more