by Darrell O'Donnell | May 17, 2018 | Rants, Raves & Rambles, Situational Awareness
Decisions Are Hard Decisions drive the success of so many different things. In life. In business. A decision is often the thing that changes the trajectory – to failure or to higher levels of success. But if you don’t actually MAKE A DECISION you’re...
by Darrell O'Donnell | Jan 1, 2014 | Situational Awareness
In the previous article about Incident Mapping I covered off the main GIS integration bits – it’s about the map (not the GIS), it needs to be dead simple, the map is there for context (initially), layers (avoid!), and search. WHAT ABOUT MY INCIDENTS AND OTHER...
by Darrell O'Donnell | Dec 7, 2013 | Situational Awareness
This is the 6th article in a series about Creating Incident Management System (IMS) Software. If you are a GIS expert this article will be hard to read. I’m a big believer that GIS is incredibly powerful for incident management but I believe that it is powerful when...
by Darrell O'Donnell | Nov 29, 2013 | Situational Awareness
This is the 5th article in a series about Creating Incident Management System (IMS) Software. Once you’ve started logging activities, created incidents, and have your contacts in order the next logical thing to build into your IMS software is the ability manage your...
by Darrell O'Donnell | Nov 22, 2013 | Information Exchange, Situational Awareness, Uncategorized
This is the 4th article in a series about creating Incident Management System (IMS) software. You’ve seen the contact binders and you have used them. You’ve seen the problems – people change and even if the same person is there, their contact details have...
by Darrell O'Donnell | Nov 15, 2013 | Situational Awareness
In the previous articles we have covered several topics: Part 1 – Levels-of-Depth – The concept that the system should only expose complexity as a user needs to dive deeper into details. Part 2 – The Incident – The Incident provides the key...
