Why Your Emergency Plan Will Fail: Ignoring your target audience
An effective emergency plan is written with the end user in mind, not to meet arbitrary requirements.
Why Your Emergency Plan Will Fail: Ignoring Basic Concepts Part 2
Ignoring basic concepts can make your plan unusable in a crisis. Simple changes in perspective can make the difference between success and failure.
Why Your Emergency Plan Will Fail: Ignoring Basic Concepts Part 1
Applying a simple emergency management concept can make your plan more effective.
Why Your Emergency Plan Will Fail: One-size-fits-all Planning
There are many reasons an emergency plan will fail when needed. Too often, it’s because planning mistakes make the plan unusable. This first in a series looks at common reasons plans fail.
Are You Wasting Your Time With ESFs?
The Emergency Support Function (ESF) system is a good planning tool, but a poor operational one.
I hear what you want, but is it what you need?
Confusing want with need can be costly when it comes to emergency management.
Equity In Emergency Management
The concept of equity” is driving fundamental change in how government delivers services. How will this new paradigm affect emergency management?
Thoughts on Emergency Management
Two questions that I am frequently asked these days are what significant changes I have seen in emergency management in my some 40-odd years and what I think the future holds. That’s a little bit of a moving target as one of the things I have enjoyed about emergency management is that it is constantly […]
Where Do We Go From Here? Learning From COVID
Disaster have both short and long term consequences. The challenge is separating the two and leveraging them to prepare for future events.