Introduction Toward the end of graduate school, I started to think about setting up a small consulting firm with three to five people. Around the same time that I was becoming aware of the form and function of the typical emergency management consultancy, I was also becoming enthralled with theoretically driven boutique IT firms. I started to imagine an emergency management consultancy that leaned more toward helping people think about problems and consider how they will address them than designing exercises, training programs, and plans. The conceptual thinking phase feeds into and enriches the design processes that produce concrete artifacts such as plans and exercises that are vital elements of emergency management.
Adding Value to Emergency Management Consulting
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Adding Value to Emergency Management Consulting
Introduction Toward the end of graduate school, I started to think about setting up a small consulting firm with three to five people. Around the same time that I was becoming aware of the form and function of the typical emergency management consultancy, I was also becoming enthralled with theoretically driven boutique IT firms. I started to imagine an emergency management consultancy that leaned more toward helping people think about problems and consider how they will address them than designing exercises, training programs, and plans. The conceptual thinking phase feeds into and enriches the design processes that produce concrete artifacts such as plans and exercises that are vital elements of emergency management.