Planning is important component of Emergency & Disaster Management, as we’ve discussed a few times before:
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So it would be good at this juncture to review some of the published wisdom out there that would educate and inform your planning processes and decisions. Consider these, for example:
[link url=”http://www.amazon.com/Morrisey-Planning-Guide-Tactical-Short-Term/dp/0787901709/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1459691236&sr=1-6&keywords=tactical+strategic+planning” title=”A Guide to Tactical Planning: Producing your Short-term Results“]:
A Guide to Tactical Planning offers all managers and professionals hands-on tools they can use to develop meaningful short-term results through tactical planning techniques. … Succinct and easy to read, the books in this series can be used in any sequence, and stand on their own as individual guides to more effective planning. (Review courtesy of Amazon.com)
[link url=”http://www.amazon.com/Strategic-Planning-Practical-Formulation-Execution/dp/0313384800/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1459691236&sr=1-4&keywords=tactical+strategic+planning” title=”Strategic Planning: A Practical Guide to Strategy Formulation and Execution“]
A Practical Guide to Strategy Formulation and Execution weaves … a roadmap for anyone charged with creating a strategic plan, evaluating a strategic planning process, or executing resulting strategies in an effective and efficient way. Not a one-size-fits-all solution, the book offers a menu of information and options based on a broad view of strategic planning and offers correspondingly broad applicability.
The guide focuses on two major aspects of the planning process: the multitude of factors contributing to an effective strategic planning framework and the multitude of drivers and enablers of successful execution. Armed with concrete information, readers will learn to create and execute a business strategy, a personal strategic action plan, or strategies for any kind of for-profit or nonprofit organization. Specific methodologies, tools, and techniques will guide readers to successful strategy formation—and execution. (Review courtesy of Amazon.com)
[link url=”http://www.amazon.com/Strategic-Tactical-Planning-3D-Workbook/dp/1477655166/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1459691236&sr=1-2&keywords=tactical+strategic+planning” title=”Strategic and Tactical Planning in 3D: A Manual and Workbook to Manage the Process“]
Strategic and Tactical Planning usually is conceptualized in two-dimensions. This text allows the reader to initially conceptualize the project in three-dimensions. This creates a theoretically perfect design of the Strategic and Tactical Planning Process. For the more sophisticated projects the number of dimensions included may be expanded to a fourth and fifth dimension as needed or required. Unlike most texts on the subject, which focuses purely on the technical components, this process also includes the Human Component as part of its fundamental structure. (Review courtesy of Amazon.com)
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The point here is twofold: First, when you are tasked to sit down and develop your plan, understand that there are those who have gone before you–there is no need to either attack this problem alone; and Second, there are no problems that are truly ‘new’ in nature–someone, somewhere has tackled your same problem before, and because of that, there are resources available to help you. If it doesn’t happen to be these, then there WILL be others. Happy Planning!
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