Summit on Implementing Wireless Communications
Breakout Group 2:
Building Partnerships


Group 2: Building Partnerships

• Good communication is a cornerstone,
essential for strong partnership. It helps
partners understand the mission and
commit to the project.

• Cultural differences are a challenge,
especially with nontraditional partners.
Understand and respect those differences.
Create a new partnership culture.


Group 2: Building Partnerships

• Building a partnership takes time.

• Get buy-in or commitment from executive
sponsors, users, and the public. The
education process never ends because
individuals leave, new ones join, and
technology evolves.


Group 2: Building Partnerships

• Federal partners are crucial as support
providers and periodic users. Their
partnership benefits all.

• Stakeholders include more than public
safety: also public services, utilities,
schools, transportation, health care. They
add resources and intel.

Group 2: Building Partnerships

• Process of building partnerships can
improve interagency relationships over the
long term —at both administrative and
at both administrative and
operational levels——even if those
relationships were strained at first.