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“Epidemic in Switzerland”: Description of a Strategic Leadership Exercise by the Swiss Government
Author(s) -
Carrel Laurent F.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of contingencies and crisis management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.007
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1468-5973
pISSN - 0966-0879
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5973.2005.00473.x
Subject(s) - government (linguistics) , crisis management , politics , public relations , theme (computing) , value (mathematics) , political science , scale (ratio) , strategic leadership , swift , strategic planning , public administration , management , leadership style , economics , law , geography , philosophy , linguistics , cartography , machine learning , computer science , programming language , operating system
On January 20, 2005, a national strategic leadership exercise was held in Switzerland. The theme being the first day response to an epidemic outbreak. Special attention was paid to cooperation and coordination among the various federal departments, the definition of responsibilities within the leadership organisation, and the level of information and communication that served the leadership process, and how these elements played out under time pressure, during a crisis situation and within a federal and international setting. The evaluation of this exercise concludes that short term crisis management could be considered as adequate but strategic decision making was mostly absent. The value of this large scale exercise is considered positive for the preparation on crisis management because of heightened political attention which for example is visible in the swift implementation of the recommendations of the evaluation.