Book plans after stakeholder dialogue about the Gjerdrum landslide
Three weeks ago, WP 6 in AFINO arranged a stakeholder-dialogue as part of a Master of Management course on security management at BI Business school. We focused on the sustainability and responsible innovation of the historic rescue operation after the quick clay landslides at Gjerdrum.
We involved all the operational units having the primary responsibility for leading this large-scale operation: The police, the ambulance service, the fire department, the homeland security and the defense unit, Gjerdrum municipality, Norwegian Peoples aid, The Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate and the Norwegian Directorate of health.
The crucial collaboration
The very interesting dialogue among them about how they approached the responsibility on the ground in the catastrophe area focused on the police unit leading a trustful exchange of information and consequently preparing the ground for an efficient cooperation among all the other units.
The rescue operation thus turned out to be successful; several lives were saved and all the dead persons were found after some days.
Book coming
Currently WP 6 cooperate with the Norwegian Directorate of health on a book project to describe exactly how these management unites concretely met the challenges in the catastrophe area by the forces of trustful innovation and cooperation.
All the units have recently agreed to support the project.
Featured image is taken by Pål Kolbenstvedt, from the quick clay landslides in Gjerdrum.
Kristian Alm
Kristian Alm is a researcher at the Norwegian Business School (BI) in Oslo. He is specialized in interdisciplinary ethics in modern organizations. Kristian is also the leader of WP 6 in AFINO, The Nordic Sustainable Innovation Dialogue Series. Read more about Kristian at AFINO's webpage.
