- Author
- Wallace, M.
- Title
- Assessing Your Strategic Environment.
- Journal
- Fire Engineering, Vol. 159, No. 11, 77-85, October 2006
- Keywords
- fire departments | planning | management systems
- Identifiers
- strategic plans; Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) analysis; external environment: politics, economy, social issues, technological factors in the marketplace; internal environment: (1) available resources (inputs), (2) present strategy (process), and (3) performance (outputs); annual internal assessment process; Challenges and Opportunities of the external environment and the Weaknesses and Strengths (COWS) of the internal environments