DISASTER MANAGEMENT

Week 5 Assignments

Week 5 Assignments

Introduction

Disaster has been referred to the uncertainty that might occur anytime. The probability of any events if arises would either have positive or negative effect on the project. When a person plans any project, there are possibilities of unforeseen disaster. Project disaster management is concern with the confidence of significant during the worse situation and the cost associated to it. Disaster management is the process of measuring and assessing disaster and developing strategies in order to manage them. Such strategies include disaster transfer to the other and avoid disaster, minimize its negative effects and to accept some or all of their consequences.

In disaster management, utilization of knowledge is demanded by the complexity of disasters. Disaster generates the information and extracts the knowledge for being operationally useful. On the basis of historical knowledge, executive decision making processes, and different approaches to knowledge management hampers this process. Inefficient and exceeding cost takes place in management of disasters that are substantially at the larger scale. This paper discusses the role of information and knowledge management, Boyd's OODA loop, and network centricity in evaluation of their approach to disaster management.

Discussion

A knowledge map is a graphical representation of a body of knowledge in a domain. It differs from a textual representation of its structure that cannot be serialized. Knowledge management is changing the current environment of the organization dramatically. This is because, at the current time, there is no database for managing knowledge at one place. This means that accessing the knowledge now is much harder compared to accessing it when the knowledge map is in place.

Knowledge management provides the organizational and infrastructural requirements for a learning organization. It must, however, serve the value of the organization, i.e. it must encourage the creation of new knowledge, disseminate and consolidate existing knowledge within the organization.

The economic development of the new millennium is fundamentally different from previous eras, because the global technological, economic and social changes of our times are faster and become more radical. Above all, they are irreversible. This dwindling achieved with current products and services, competitive edge of enterprises. Without clear unique selling vendors in the market are hardly noticed. At all levels of society, just a transition occurs from a predominantly material specific to a more symbolic, virtual, and highly networked society. More and more companies and private property not more people trade in markets, ...