Recent Professional Presentations
LAC’s Harry Lorick to spoke at the NACE 2004 Annual Meeting and Technical Conference in Orlando, Florida
4/4/2004
Contact:
Harry Lorick, P.E.
Lorick Associates Consulting
(310) 374-5777
hlorick@laconsulting.com
Harry Lorick was asked to speak in two sessions at NACE’s Annual Conference. Harry Lorick will be partnering with clients in both sessions. The topics will include:
More Than Just the ABC’s – The Power of Activity Based Costing - This presentation will discuss how public works agencies can used activity based costing and budgeting to help improve operations and do more with less resources. An overview of the different budgeting methods will be discussed and their pros and cons assessed. The overview will include major concepts that need to be applied to use activity based budgeting. Some of the fundamentals that will be covered include: setting performance objectives and effort levels, management processes of planning organizing directing and controlling, balancing resources to activities performed and creating activity guidelines. In addition you will hear how Charlotte County, FL has used activity based costing to improve their operations.
Making Maintenance Systems Work for You: A guide to Implementing a MMS - This presentation will do an in depth analysis of the process of creating an effective maintenance system. It will start at the very basics of identification of agencies’ needs, selection of the right tools and then implementing it in an actual work environment. It will cover the in depth development of a system by outlining maintenance system components and options, evaluating individual agencies needs, how to choose software that is right for your agency, some of the possibilities to integrate with other systems, and the actual benefits of a MS. This will cover examples of successes and failures of implementing a maintenance system. The presentation will include an overview of system and theory of how they can be applied with potential successes along with three agencies’ experience (Alameda County, Contra Costa County and Hernando County).