Editing Incident Command System (section)

===Coordination===
One of the benefits of the ICS is that it allows a way to coordinate a set of organizations who may otherwise work together sporadically. While much training material emphasizes the hierarchical aspects of the ICS, it can also be seen as an inter-organizational network of responders. These network qualities allow the ICS flexibility and expertise of a range of organizations. But the network aspects of the ICS also create management challenges. One study of ICS after-action reports found that ICS tended to enjoy higher coordination when there was strong pre-existing trust and working relationships between members, but struggled when authority of the ICS was contested and when the networks of responders was highly diverse.<ref>{{cite web |last=Moynihan |first=Donald |title=The Network Governance of Crisis Response: Case Studies of Incident Command Systems (2009) |work=Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 19: 895–915 |url=http://www.lafollette.wisc.edu/facultystaff/moynihan/JPART194.pdf |access-date=22 January 2014 |archive-date=29 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131229015250/http://www.lafollette.wisc.edu/facultystaff/moynihan/JPART194.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> Coordination on any incident or event is facilitated with the implementation of the following concepts: