Notice of RetractionImproving the efficiency of emergency management based on TOC Thinking Process

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Emergency management has drawn much attention in the past ten years especially in China since SARS (2003) and Wenchuan Earthquake (2008) and Yushu Earthquake (2010). Time urgent is a critical characteristic in emergency management and quick response is vital important. Traditional emergency management approaches usually need lots of people and resources which are time consuming and often inadequate faced with tremendous disasters especially in the precious Golden 72 hours. TOC Thinking Process (TP) tools have been proved effective in analyzing problems and conflicts by laying out transition from an undesirable present to a desirable future in a logical way which indicates that the performance of an organization could be greatly elevated without additional investment to it. Using the tools of TOC TP in situation judgment may avail the decision makers of determining the core problem and bringing out positive change from a systematic view in short time thus may reduce internal wastage and improve the overall system performance in time without more inputs thus raise the efficiency of emergency management.