In July 2014, Sweden’s full crisis response system engaged in a major operation as a small forest fire spun out of control, turning into the largest forest fire in Sweden in modern times. A number of investigations have been undertaken to understand the course of the fire and identify lessons for future crisis management. This paper presents one approach to identifying such lessons, the lessons...

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On September 22, 1980 Iraqis attacked Iran's air bases and simultaneously entered Iran with six army divisions on three fronts and occupied a vast part of Iranian territories. At that time, Iraqis did not have chemical warfare. But in time, they began to develop an intensive research program to produce and store chemical weapons and used the war fields to test and perfect their chemical warfare...

This paper discusses some of my lessons from six years of practical inflation targeting as a policy maker at the Riksbank (May 21, 2007-May 20, 2013). They are lessons mainly for Sweden, with its small very open economy and its special financial sector, since one thing I have learnt is that things are very different in different economies. The lessons may thus apply to varying degrees for other...

Background: Iran is a disaster-prone country, which in recent years has been affected by heavy rainfall and consequent flooding. In March 26, 2019, heavy rainfall in northern parts of Iran resulted in flooding. The situation became more critical when central and western provinces were affected, finally causing significant damages in 25 provinces. The most affected areas were Golestan, and Khuze...

This paper provides an approach for organizational learning through the collection of "Lessons Learned." The approach focuses on organizations in the Information Technology area, but is applicable to any organization having defined processes and a mechanism for process improvement. This approach ties the lessons learned program to the process infrastructure used by the organization to collect l...

A learned lesson, in the context of a pre-defined organizational process, summarizes an experience that should be used to modify that process, under the conditions for which that lesson applies. To promote lesson reuse, many organizations employ lessons learned processes, which define how to collect, validate, store, and disseminate lessons among their personnel, typically by using a standalone...