The strategic management challenges of developing unmanned aerial vehicles in public safety organizations

• Authors: Tuomo Tuohimaa;Ilkka S. Tikanmäki
• Venue: ACELAE'11 Proceedings of the 10th WSEAS international conference on communications, electrical & computer engineering, and 9th WSEAS international conference on Applied electromagnetics, wireless and optical communications
• Year: 2011

This paper deals with the challenges of strategic management in public organizations for improving situational awareness and real-time picture. A significant strategic management tool for operational activities is situational awareness including real-time picture creation. In this paper we use, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) as an example for improving situational awareness and real-time picture creation. Persons acting on the ground, their leaders and other decision-makers should be able to exploit a real time picture of the situation when making decision. E.g. police, border control authorities, customs and fire departments need real-time picture of the situation. For decision-makers and their assistants, situational awareness means understanding about events, circumstances affecting these events, the objectives of various parties and possible options, which are needed to make decisions on a specific item or the whole thing. In society, the efficient use of resources is a sensible, economical and appropriate target. Strategy work requires a new perspective where actors must have the ability to see large complexes. Different entities interact with each other and strategic decisions require courage. Successful organizations create a successful strategy, implement it and are able to renew their strategies with the latest requirements.