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Corporate Crisis Management: Five keys for dealing with disasters Roger Mason, PhD Introduction As part of our business we help clients prepare for critical incident management. The first step in helping a client is understanding their approach to crisis management. This usually begins by asking, “How do you make emergency decisions and manage critical incidents?”…
Dr. Roger Mason has been asked to present a workshop at the 85th Symposium of the Military Operational Research Society being held June 19-22 at the US Military Academy, West Point. This conference attracts operational research experts from the military, academia, and the federal think tanks. Dr. Mason will be speaking on the use of…
On June 2-3 Roger Mason has been invited by Dr. Ruben Arcos, Director for the Center for Intelligence Analysis and Democratic Systems (CIADC), to provide his students a two day symposium on the use of wargames in intelligence analysis. The center is located at Juan Carlos University in Madrid. CIADC students graduate with a Master’s…
This winter season has been extremely busy for LECMgt. We have been writing plans, designing games and exercises, conducting training, traveling across the county, and responding to a natural disaster (See: Snow Emergency in Mammoth Lakes). Penn State Tabletop The Public Safety and Emergency Management Team at Penn State University asked LECMgt for help evaluating…
The Use of Wargames in Operational Research Dr. Roger Mason Dr. Brian Arthur has observed the current technology eco-system is moving from “technologies that produce fixed physical outputs to technologies… that can be combined and configured endlessly for fresh purposes.” This is a challenge for military operational research where the development time for new weapons…
This has been an amazing year for LECMgt. We have been involved in a variety of interesting projects helping our clients. We traveled from Hawaii to central Europe. Here are some of the high points for the year. Emergency Planning LECMgt is busy with emergency planning for several clients with many different challenges. We are…
A major disaster has struck your community. You have been waiting all day for a press conference from local officials. Finally the news conference begins and the public information officer steps to the podium. “We want to extend our best wishes to everyone impacted by this disaster. We know everyone is concerned about the power outage.…
Recently a friend who is a campus safety director was relating their ongoing struggle to convince administrators his department needs to become a full service public safety department. I asked what the obstacle was. They said, “It’s always the same argument. “What is wrong with calling the local police department? It’s always been good enough…