Processes

Dispose of assets

How dispose of assets are reshaped as AGI capability advances.

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Dispose of assets — illustrated

The bottom line

About 35% of the work in Dispose of assets is information-shaped and increasingly AI-deliverable, with the rest a hybrid of judgment and hands-on work. The automation frontier runs straight through the middle of this role.

Why: With no child occupations seeded, this composite's scalar relies entirely on the process name and description ('Retiring productive and non-productive assets'). In the listed asset-heavy industries (e.g., aerospace, utilities, petroleum), disposal requires both the physical decommissioning of machinery and the digital administrative work of updating financial ledgers and compliance records. This combination of hands-on removal and back-office documentation places the process in the low-hybrid band.

grounded in the economy graph · digital scalar 0.35 · hybrid

Business-as-Code

Read as an executable program — the work decomposed into Code, Generative, Agentic, and Human.

Dispose of assets sits inside a larger value-flow — 1 parent structure it composes into. The hierarchy is grounding, not the story: it tells you which aggregate exposure Dispose of assets inherits.

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How the work flows

Trigger: An asset is identified as obsolete, damaged beyond economical repair, or at the end of its designated useful life.

  1. Identify assets qualifying for retirement or replacement
  2. Determine the optimal disposal method such as sale, scrap, recycling, or donation
  3. Obtain necessary financial and operational approvals for the disposal
  4. Execute the physical removal, transfer, or destruction of the asset
  5. Update the fixed asset subledger and operational maintenance registries
  6. Calculate and record any financial gains, losses, and tax implications

Outcome: The asset is physically removed, sold, or destroyed, and all corresponding financial and maintenance records are updated to reflect its retirement.

Measured by

Asset Disposal Cycle TimeValue Recovered From DisposalDisposal Cost Per AssetDisposal Environmental Compliance Rate