Local Government Asset Management Consultants
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When I was sitting in the council chair, I knew asset data mattered. What I didn't have was a clear path from good intention to working reality. That's what this guide is: a twelve-stage roadmap for implementing ADAC in a council, across four phases. It begins where it really counts, with governance and the standard itself, before any software enters the picture, then works through your local rules, the pipeline, and going live. The map I wish I'd had.

Many Australian councils are adopting or requiring ADAC-compliant digital handovers for new infrastructure because it enables consistent asset capture and efficient integration with corporate systems. State infrastructure projects also increasingly align with structured digital asset handover practices.

The hype around AI analytics tends to focus on capability. Can it answer natural language questions? Can it generate insights on demand? Can it replace the need for an analyst to write SQL at eleven o’clock at night? The answer to all of these is increasingly yes, with the right setup. But there is a prior question that matters just as much, and it has nothing to do with AI at all. It is the same question that has always mattered in data management. Is the information in your