The following study seeks to explain why the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) learnt particular leassons concerning flexibel planning, following the swin flue pandemic in 2009. By using George P. Huber’s teory of organizational learning the study finds that coherent cognitiv maps between coworkers and experience-based learning curves functioned as a selection mechanism between options presented by a formal investigations. With the aim of explaining the empirical case, limitations were also found in the theoretical framework concerning the relationship between old knowledge and the construction of the new knowledge.