'All hazards approach' to disaster management: the role of information and knowledge management, Boyd's OODA Loop, and network-centricity |
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Authors: | von Lubitz Dag K J E Beakley James E Patricelli Frédéric |
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Institution: | HG&GA Dow College of Health Sciences, Central Michigan University, United States. dvlubitz@med-smart.org |
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Abstract: | The ever-increasing complexity of disasters demands utilisation of knowledge that exists outside domains traditionally drawn upon in disaster management. To be operationally useful, such knowledge must he extracted, combined with information generated by the disaster itself, and transformed into actionable knowledge. The process, though, is hampered by existing, business-oriented approaches to knowledge management, by technical issues related to access to relevant, multi-domain information/knowledge, and by executive decision-making processes based predominantly on historical knowledge. Consequently, as shown by many recent incidents, the management of large-scale (mega) disasters is often inefficient and exceedingly costly. This paper demonstrates that the integration of modified information and knowledge management into the concepts of network-centric operations and network-enabled capabilities, and the employment of Boyd's OODA (Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act) Loop-based decision-making in unpredictable and dynamically changing environments, may address some of these problems. |
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Keywords: | actionable knowledge disaster management information management knowledge management leadership network‐centric warfare network‐centricity next‐generation networks OODA Loop prodrome Teams of Leaders |
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