Fire Department Strategic Planning: Creating Future Excellence, 2nd Edition

Successful fire service leaders know that a fire department that isn't moving forward is dying or, at least, in danger of dying. In this second edition, author Mark Wallace succinctly points out that if you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.

Fire departments that know where they are going, know the environment in which they must operate, and have identified how to get there have the best chance of achieving their goals and desires. These concepts form the foundation of strategic planning. They challenge fire chiefs to escape from the typical operational thinking, to begin strategic thinking, and ultimately to manage their organizations strategically.

In Fire Department Strategic Planning, 2nd Edition, readers will learn about the strategic planning process and why each of the steps in the process is critical if the plan is to succeed. More importantly, while the strategic planning process may be thought of as extremely complicated, this book removes the mystery by providing timely advice and easy-to-use tools to assist in the strategic planning process that can be applied to any fire department.

Features and benefits

• Includes a workbook to clarify lessons in each chapter
• Meets FESHE requirements
• Perfect for a 14-15 week fire science course
• Provides solution for quickly updating your plan
• Contains tips for identifying the departments mandates
• Presents a model system for fire department strategic planning

Contents

• Overview of strategic planning
• Revisiting your existing strategic plan
• Speed planning for the time challenged proactive futurist
• Strategic planning and the commission on fire accreditation international
• Planning to plan strategically
• Understanding and applying the values of the department
• The value of vision to organizational change
• Identifying the department's mandates
• Developing the mission of the department
• Understanding and defining the philosophy of operations
• Assessing the challenges and opportunities of the external environment
• Identifying the strategic issues of the department
• Creating strategies for strategic issues
• Creating the department's ideal future through proactive futuring
• Operational planning from a strategic perspective
• Strategic management and master planning
• Cyclic planning
• Appendices

276 pages / Softcover / 7 in. x 10 in. / 2006

Firefighters Bookstore Item # 369-2