8 Things You Should Know
Through 15 years of research, we have found that although the issues surrounding Community Fire Protection Emergency Management can be complex, the solutions need not be.
As new members of any valuable community development effort, it is critical for local leaders to be able to generate by-in from their peers and the citizens. The 8 Winning Ideas that follow are characteristics that have been built in to The 9020 Project to ensure success. Understanding these key ideas will help local leaders have the information and language they need to be able to support and champion the project.
As new members of any valuable community development effort, it is critical for local leaders to be able to generate by-in from their peers and the citizens. The 8 Winning Ideas that follow are characteristics that have been built in to The 9020 Project to ensure success. Understanding these key ideas will help local leaders have the information and language they need to be able to support and champion the project.
Customizable
There are many pieces available through The 9020 Project. You can choose to invest only in those pieces which make sense in your community. Your community is always in control of The 9020 Project partnership. This allows the flexibility to move at a pace that is comfortable for the citizens, the leaders, and the bureaucracy.
Reversible
The risk of test-driving The 9020 Project is minimal because it is completely and easily reversible. This is very important when relating to public safety as there needs to be a degree of cautious progress where people's lives and property are at risk.
Divisible
The 9020 Project can be implemented in segments, steps, or phases. There is a "logical next step" process built into every program. Explore your community's needs and wants, start with one service, add on additional services as desired, and continue to add services step-by-step until you reach your community's long term goals.
Concrete
Based on the concept of knowledge management deeply wrought with intrinsic value, The 9020 Project is made up of programs, planned events, and specific activities that are concrete and tangible. Simple and direct concepts of proven value, such as replacing ignorance with education and making informed decisions based on a strong knowledge-base are coupled with hard evidence to construct an environment conducive to positive change.
Familiar
It may seem at first a contradiction of terms that a project of national significance, of revolutionary scope, of a truly innovative nature can, at the same time, be familiar. We are all familiar with the issues; we are all familiar with the concept of education; we are all familiar with the players. Change the focus, change the management plan, and see new results. It's the collaboration of those who have experienced past victories and defeats that is driving this new direction in which a nation of communities should be moving.
Timely
The 9020 Project fits the direction in which individuals, organizations, and communities are moving. The 9020 Project is not a quick-fix solution designed just to satisfy today's needs. It is aligned with our communities' long terms goals. It deals and specializes in the issues, the continuous process, and the development of the people who are The Community Fire Protection & Emergency Management Delivery System.
High Profile
The 9020 Project is designed with a high degree of publicity value. Every successful innovation must have great potential for visibility as the ideas and activities work. The 9020 Project is mostly about supporting leaders who help citizens and tax payers to live safer and more productive lives helping mayors, managers, planners, firefighters and other professional leaders to serve people better. It's a circle and it includes everyone. The results will be evident and high profile.
Consistent with Current Costs
Public and private community fire protection and emergency related management is the most expensive public benefit service that taxpayers pay for each year. The 9020 Project "dollar and hour" path of solution formula is based on a cost redistribution plan which incorporates two basic principles of sound problem management and solution practice.
The first is in the area of waste reduction and redirection of efforts. The second focuses on the more efficient use of total available resources' (particularly volunteered and those already paid for) contributions of time, talent, and energy. Start with the costs we have already acquired and where we already commit tremendous annual resources and apply our innovative approaches to improvement there. Of the billions dollars that American taxpayers spend and of the millions of hours of emergency management activities, 95% are passive-reactive and provide a very low return on investment ratio. The goal is to increase efficiency to much greater than 5%.
In Closing
Because system don't work, people work, and with the strength of partnership with CEU-professional advancement, the focus is on the citizens and knowledge management. In comparison to other innovative solutions, this one will drive the most beneficial cost effective, and highly publicized changes.
There are many pieces available through The 9020 Project. You can choose to invest only in those pieces which make sense in your community. Your community is always in control of The 9020 Project partnership. This allows the flexibility to move at a pace that is comfortable for the citizens, the leaders, and the bureaucracy.
Reversible
The risk of test-driving The 9020 Project is minimal because it is completely and easily reversible. This is very important when relating to public safety as there needs to be a degree of cautious progress where people's lives and property are at risk.
Divisible
The 9020 Project can be implemented in segments, steps, or phases. There is a "logical next step" process built into every program. Explore your community's needs and wants, start with one service, add on additional services as desired, and continue to add services step-by-step until you reach your community's long term goals.
Concrete
Based on the concept of knowledge management deeply wrought with intrinsic value, The 9020 Project is made up of programs, planned events, and specific activities that are concrete and tangible. Simple and direct concepts of proven value, such as replacing ignorance with education and making informed decisions based on a strong knowledge-base are coupled with hard evidence to construct an environment conducive to positive change.
Familiar
It may seem at first a contradiction of terms that a project of national significance, of revolutionary scope, of a truly innovative nature can, at the same time, be familiar. We are all familiar with the issues; we are all familiar with the concept of education; we are all familiar with the players. Change the focus, change the management plan, and see new results. It's the collaboration of those who have experienced past victories and defeats that is driving this new direction in which a nation of communities should be moving.
Timely
The 9020 Project fits the direction in which individuals, organizations, and communities are moving. The 9020 Project is not a quick-fix solution designed just to satisfy today's needs. It is aligned with our communities' long terms goals. It deals and specializes in the issues, the continuous process, and the development of the people who are The Community Fire Protection & Emergency Management Delivery System.
High Profile
The 9020 Project is designed with a high degree of publicity value. Every successful innovation must have great potential for visibility as the ideas and activities work. The 9020 Project is mostly about supporting leaders who help citizens and tax payers to live safer and more productive lives helping mayors, managers, planners, firefighters and other professional leaders to serve people better. It's a circle and it includes everyone. The results will be evident and high profile.
Consistent with Current Costs
Public and private community fire protection and emergency related management is the most expensive public benefit service that taxpayers pay for each year. The 9020 Project "dollar and hour" path of solution formula is based on a cost redistribution plan which incorporates two basic principles of sound problem management and solution practice.
The first is in the area of waste reduction and redirection of efforts. The second focuses on the more efficient use of total available resources' (particularly volunteered and those already paid for) contributions of time, talent, and energy. Start with the costs we have already acquired and where we already commit tremendous annual resources and apply our innovative approaches to improvement there. Of the billions dollars that American taxpayers spend and of the millions of hours of emergency management activities, 95% are passive-reactive and provide a very low return on investment ratio. The goal is to increase efficiency to much greater than 5%.
In Closing
Because system don't work, people work, and with the strength of partnership with CEU-professional advancement, the focus is on the citizens and knowledge management. In comparison to other innovative solutions, this one will drive the most beneficial cost effective, and highly publicized changes.