Tactics, command, leadership

assistance. Emergency preparedness production is therefore an
aspect that system command has to work with continually. As a
basis for this work, system command should continually strive
to gain and process information, i.e. a form of intelligence gathe-
ring, as well as working with long term follow up of operations.
Note that emergency preparedness production can be changed in
several ways. One way is to change the ready time, another is to
increase or reduce the number of personnel engaged and a third
is to move units. It is also possible to change functions in the orga-
nization, for example, by providing various types of special units.
System command has therefore to decide upon and coordinate
preparedness and response operation frameworks, which among
other things include time, space and resources, as well as balan-
cing the needs of any possible ongoing operations for assistance
needs, risk situations and preparedness by, for example, dividing
and transferring resources.
Conditions for system command work, i.e. from an admini­
strative perspective, include, among other things, the initiation of
changes and development work within that organ isation. The mo-
dification work that is implemented affects the emergency pre-
paredness production of the system in different ways, as well as
the execution of response operations. The task includes taking re-
sponsibility for the future, and consequently the system needs to
sense what is happening around and about the organisation. This
involves ongoing analysis of the inner strengths and weaknesses
of the organisation and of being aware of its working environ-
ment with regard to opportunities and threats. The task can in-
volve working on a visionary basis, balancing that which is being
done just now with that which may need to be done later. The
analysis of completed emergency response operations can give an
indication of needs with regard to investment in equipment or
training or how the structure of the municipality has changed
and how building technology solutions can affect the execution
of operations.
System command, then, needs to take into account develop-
ments in the working environment and how these affect response
operations. An important aspect of this is to analyse and evaluate
just how the assistance need is met. It is among other things th-
rough such analysis and evaluation that system command, for ex-
ample, with the help of aim of the operation, influences the work
in order to ensure that the assistance need is fulfilled.