Business Assets · Asset register · Component
The register
The list itself — every asset with an owner, a location and a category that leaves room for the things that were never bought.
The deliverable
What it is
The register is administrative and unglamorous, and everything else in the object depends on it existing and being roughly right.
Its categories are the decision that matters. Built around physical assets, the register cannot later be widened without being rebuilt.
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What it is made of
Each element is a constituent part of the component. Follow one to see the attributes it carries.
The entry
Each asset, identified in a way that survives being moved or renamed.
3 attributes: Asset identifier · Description · Category
LearnThe ownership
Who is responsible for the asset, as a person rather than a department.
3 attributes: Owner · Primary user · Owning entity
LearnThe location
Where the asset is, in terms specific enough to find it.
3 attributes: Location · Location verified · Status
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Choose categories that accommodate intangibles from the outset. A physical-asset register cannot be widened later without a rebuild.
The other components in asset register
The intangible schedule
The assets with no purchase price — data, documentation, domains, accumulated models — which are frequently the most valuable and the least tracked.
LearnThe review record
When the register was last checked against reality, what was found, and what was corrected.
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