Swot Analysis Fire Department

The two presentations that I reviewed for Unit 8 are Jessica Jackovich’s presentation on the SWOT analysis of the Fairbanks Fire Department and Aaron Schrage’s SWOT analysis for the University Fire Department. Jessica’s presentation was put together well and covered the background of the Fairbanks Fire Department and its strengths and weaknesses. The most outstanding strengths of the department seemed to be emphasis on customer service, experienced personnel, and quick response times. A few of the weaknesses that the department could focus on improving are limited personnel, lack of training opportunities, and diversity. In Aaron’s presentation about UFD, I found his Opportunities and Threats sections to be the strongest topics. The opportunities that were highlighted are local partnerships, alumni reputation and relationships. Lastly, he noted budget cuts and student injuries as being the most threating elements toward the department.
Jessica’s review of Opportunities seemed to have loss concentration on the outside factors of the organization. In the presentation she started to focus on things that to me should have fallen under the strengths category. For example the public education and Fire Training Center, both are currently part of the organization. While these two differed in the opportunities section they had similarities in their weaknesses. Both organizations seemed to be lacking in diversity, being mostly white mail dominate members. Lastly, Jessica’s presentation did a better job of explaining each section of SWOT review. Before giving examples she defined what each section was and it was clear what I would be looking for in her