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Scenario planning is as much art as science, and prone to a variety of traps (both in process and content) as enumerated by Paul J. H. Schoemaker. [14] More recently scenario planning has been discussed as a tool to improve the strategic agility, by cognitively preparing not only multiple scenarios but also multiple consistent strategies. [10]
Federal agencies with no existing planning processes are required to adopt the IPS. The IPS does not supersede any existing state, local, and tribal planning processes. However, it is the standard planning system that the Federal Government will use for scenario-based planning. The IPS is compatible with many existing planning systems.
Nuclear Testing.. National Response Scenario Number One is the United States federal government's planned response to a small scale nuclear attack. [1] It is one of the National Response Scenarios developed by the United States Department of Homeland Security, considered the most likely of fifteen emergency scenarios to impact the United States.
The model for such an exercise is what the investment management company Pimco did in the 2008 financial crisis, just before what came to be known as Lehman Weekend.
The George W. Bush administration put the Continuity of Operations plan into effect for the first time directly following the September 11 attacks.Their implementation involved a rotating staff of 75 to 150 senior officials and other government workers from every federal executive department and other parts of the executive branch in two secure bunkers on the East Coast.
Crisis-management teams can rehearse a crisis plan by developing a simulated scenario to use as a drill. The plan should clearly stipulate that the only people to speak to publicly about the crisis are the designated persons, such as the company spokesperson or crisis team members.
Instead, emergency management focuses on the management of disasters, which are events that produce more impacts than a community can handle on its own. [2] The management of disasters tends to require some combination of activity from individuals and households, organizations, local, and/or higher levels of government.
A number of examples link participatory community plans with local government planning. One widely applied example is South Africa's national policy of community-based planning methodology, and an adapted version, the Harmonised Participatory Planning Guide for Lower Level Local Governments, [48] which is national policy in Uganda.