I opted for George Washington University’s (GWU) Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Master’s degree with a concentration in Crisis, Emergency and Risk Management, as the systems ...

Thinking Beyond Response: The emergency management professional has long been focused on response for all the obvious reasons. We are good at responding. It’s what we have planned, trained and ...

When managers fail to use systems thinking, they tend to make myopic decisions with costly, even painful, outcomes. The COVID Ecosystem Let’s apply systems thinking to the coronavirus pandemic. We ...

A web-enabled emergency management system that was designed for Department of Defense installations is deployed and operational at Redstone. New emergency management system goes online By Marian ...

1. Define the system's purpose. 2. Engage stakeholders. For example: In a software development project, the team faced challenges in defining the scope of the system to be developed.

Systems thinking is an approach to problem-solving that views "problems" as parts of a unified whole. It involves understanding how different parts of a system interact and influence each other ...

There are systems all around us, if we know where to look. A family unit is one system, while the community in which we live is another. That community is part of a bigger system of a county or city.

In the days since deadly flash floods killed more than 100 people in central Texas, there have been many questions about emergency systems in the U.S.

The term "systems thinking" refers to a management and operations approach where single business decisions are analyzed based on the systematic consequences they have. If a company invests in a ...