- Author
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Wallace, M.
- Title
- Assessing Your Strategic Environment.
- Journal
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Fire Engineering,
Vol. 159,
No. 11,
77-85,
October 2006
- Keywords
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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