Maximizing Sustained Outcomes
We help asset-intensive enterprises achieve lasting results, optimizing performance and growth.
In today’s hyper-competitive business landscape, asset-intensive organizations face the challenge of doing more with less. They are under constant pressure to maximize productivity and bottom line while managing limited resources, aging infrastructure, ESG goals, and increasingly complex digital demands.
A structured approach:
- A Roadmap to outline the strategy’s implementation across defined horizons, milestones, benefits realization, and delivery.
- A Costed Implementation Plan detailing resource allocation, dependencies, and timelines for clarity and actionable progress.
- Supporting Materials such as use cases, business requirements, systems architecture, and cost analyses to guide decision-making and supplement deliverables.
Our seasoned advisory team has over 750 years of combined asset operations experience
Our teams work hands-on across industries, including energy, transportation, mining, manufacturing, building, and construction. Our advisors have helped asset owners and infrastructure leaders overcome industry-specific challenges and maximize asset performance. With expertise in digital transformation, asset management, and data services, we combine technical capabilities, a human-centric approach, and integrated change management to deliver sustained, impactful results. We do this by enabling leading organizations across sectors to:
- Unlock asset and team productivity
- Reduce disruption and downtime
- Ensure asset longevity and upkeep
- Adhere to regulatory requirement
The Cohesive Edge
Advisory Expertise
Our experts, including contributors to ISO 55000 standards, bring unparalleled knowledge of infrastructure-intensive challenges to optimize your high-value assets and navigate complex transformations seamlessly.
Critical Infrastructure Focus
We provide tailored solutions that address the unique challenges of asset-heavy organizations, driving long-term success and value that exceeds client expectations.
Agile Strategies
Recognizing that no two organizations are alike, we provide customized strategies informed by industry-specific insights and your organizational needs, avoiding one-size-fits-all approaches.
Integrated Solutions
Our holistic, outcome-driven services align with enterprise goals, connecting digital transformation, data management, and operational change, making us a one-stop shop for diverse client needs.
Target State Definition and Realization
We define a clear vision, gap analysis, and roadmap to bridge the gap. Our structured process documents aspirations, objectives, and outcomes aligned with strategic requirements.
Successes
Some of our success stories
Meet our Experts
Olly Thomas
Director Advisory Services (EMEA), Bentley Asset Performance ServicesOlly leads our advisory services in the EMEA region. He matches our team’s strengths and capabilities precisely to our client requirements, nurtures our core relationships and ensures that new market developments are factored into our approach.
An architect by background, Olly’s career has seen him work across sectors including education, retail, residential and commercial. He has helped major clients to adopt modern, digital approaches to unlock value and drive improved performance across the asset lifecycle.
Olly spent xx years as the director of our Buildings and Communities team, overseeing project delivery and business development activities and ensuring that our solutions and services, including digital twin and BIM implementation, delivered – and surpassed – the expected outcomes.
Dave Philp
Chief Value OfficerA figurehead in the digital engineering field, Dave brings over 30 years of experience and a track record of creating value for infrastructure clients across the globe.
In a career which has spanned major contractors and consultancies including Balfour Beatty, Mace and AECOM, Dave has supported clients across all sectors to map digital developments to their critical business objectives – whether cost reduction, asset optimisation, or carbon reduction.
Equally well-versed in horizon modelling, digital strategy development, digital change strategies, innovation workshops and implementation planning, his approach is always outcomes-focused.
A chartered construction manager by background, Dave has held several influential industry roles. These have included being Head of BIM Implementation, based within the UK Cabinet Office, to implement the UK Government’s BIM and Soft Landings mandate and ensure the wide adoption of digital ways of working, Chair of the Scottish BIM Delivery Group and Impact Director for the Construction Innovation Hub via the University of Cambridge.
Dave is currently Chair of the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) Digital and Innovation Advisory panel; he is also a past trustee and previously chaired the CIOB Policy Commitee. In this role, he led the development of the CIOB’s Artificial Intelligence Playbook 2024.
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE), Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) and Institute of Civil Engineering Surveyors (InstCES). Dave is also past vice chair of BE-ST formerly the Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC).
David Armstrong
Senior Director Advisory Services, AmericasDavid merges field proven capabilities with the practical experience of building digital asset management systems and leading transformative change.
He has helped asset owner operators for 25+ years, from the ground floor up, to achieve significant results in the areas of operational and reliability excellence, investments & engineer-procure-construct, enterprise configuration management and asset performance management.
Typically, he challenges his projects to drive out costly variation by understanding the contributing root cause datapoints that not only determine the right strategies at the right time, but also enable actionable results within the evolving science of data analytics. David is passionate about deriving maximum results from the circular economy, fostering discussions on socially responsible projects and inclusive societal systems and programs, supported by digital enabling solutions
He holds a master’s Certification in Enterprise Configuration Management from the University of Phoenix, is an Aladon RCM2 Practitioner and a Six Sigma Blackbelt, Project Management Professional that pairs certifications with practical battle scars from running cultural change management initiatives within asset intensive industries: heavy industry steel, O&G, water and power utilities, and mining sectors.
David is the deputy lead for the Canadian contingent for the Global Forum of Maintenance and Asset Management (GFMAM), Group 2 – Asset Planning and Decision making.
Henri Snijders
Head of Advisory, Bentley Asset Performance ServicesHenri leads our advisory line of business, guiding our teams across EMEA, the Americas and APAC to ensure our offerings and solutions are precisely matched to the requirements and challenges of our clients.
He combines his project leadership experience and experience of technology implementations within major organisations, with his knowledge and understanding of the role that people play in making large-scale and complex digital projects a success.
Prior to joining us Henri spent 12 years as CEO of OxPlus, a Netherlands-based asset management consultancy. He was formerly Chief Transformation Officer where he helped major organisations including Renfe, the Spanish transport group, to effectively manage the people and cultural aspects of digital transformation.
