An  Asset Portfolio is a Management System aimed at developing and maintaining in operational conditions a set of Mezzo Resource Operating Assets, delivering Resource Capabilitys required by Business Operations.

The purpose of  Asset Portfolios is efficiency: Managed Resource Assets must provide expected Resource Capabilitys in the best cost / performance ratio.

An  Asset Portfolio Stage is a past, current or future state of an Asset Portfolio.

Each Asset Portfolio represents an initiative comprising a purposeful set of activities whose primary purpose is focused on achieving a set of clearly defined objectives assigned to assets managed in the Asset Portfolio.

It may transcend organisational boundaries and consequently require integrated team working under the direction of a Management Team.

  Resource Capability belongs to the Resource Conceptualization Levels as opposed to Business Capability that belongs to the Conceptual .

Resource Operating Asset is the supertype of all Capabilitys that are fufilled by Resource Operating Assets.

is a Capability that is fullfiled by benefits to Customers (internal or external) of the enterprise. It expresses an ability to produce Resource Outcome Events.

This includes; among others, Functionality, Skill and Technology Capability.

 Resource Operating Assets comprise all resources which contributes to the production and consumption of Business Outcome Events of the enterprise.

 Resource Operating Assets are subject to Operational Risks.