Robin should first establish different departments to fulfill the varied needs of the organization in a systematic and efficient manner. In that regard, Robin should immediately appoint department heads in the following areas: shelter facilities, food storage and distribution, recruitment and hiring, training, and field operations. The head of shelter facilities must solve the problem of ensuring that employees in the field have safe accommodations in remote areas of operation. Ideally, this will be accomplished by recruiting carpenters and other tradesmen who can develop processes for quickly assembling, disassembling, and transporting shelters while traveling remote forests. Similarly, the heads of food supply and human resource departments must immediately develop methods of supplying field operations and of hiring and training employees who will contribute to the future success of the organization.

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Robin's immediate strategy should be to identify those within his current organization who are most knowledgeable about sheltering operators in the field. They will be instrumental either as members of the new department or in defining the specific needs and formulating guidelines for entertaining RFPs and employee training in shelter operations. Robin should use the same approach in identifying his best hunters, trappers, and food preparers to standardize procedures to maximize the efficiency of food procurement, storage, preservation, and distribution in the field. Robin should also immediately instruct his new heads of human resources to establish organization-wide hiring goals, and to identify the most experienced and best-performing field employees who can form the core of the organization's employee training program.