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The Weak Link: Economic Espionage and the Business Traveler
According to statistics published by the FBI, at least twenty-three foreign governments actively target U.S. corporations for their proprietary trade information. And the threat is not just from state intelligence units. Increasingly, private companies...
Scenario Generation Ideas
In the 16th episode of our Whiteboard Wednesday video series, Rob discusses a few ideas to help generate your scenario. https://vimeo.com/366624003
Corporate Wargames – Lessons 1 & 2
PreparedEx has thousands of hours of preparedness experience in continuity planning, running drills, functional exercises, tabletop exercises, and corporate wargames. The methods we employ have their genesis in the age-old military wargames. Our...
Exercise Objectives
In this 15th episode of the Whiteboard Wednesday video series, Rob discusses the importance of exercise objectives. https://vimeo.com/365416390
Do You Have These Three Crisis Leadership Traits?
After a crisis and our management of it has run its course, it pays to review all the details of what occurred and evaluate how we responded. We need to determine what could have been done to help us prevent such a crisis from happening in the first place, and...
Exercise Process
In this 14th episode of the Whiteboard Wednesday video series, Rob discusses the 5-steps of the Exercise Process. https://vimeo.com/363905115
Practice = Better Discipline
"Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out." ~ Stephen Covey After leaving the military in 2001, it took me several years to adapt to the corporate world. The changes varied from the...
Building Crisis Management Competency Through Exercises
In this 4th episode of September’s crisis simulation exercise series, Rob discusses building your capability as it relates to crisis management. "Teams must participate in regular exercises to improve their skills." https://vimeo.com/361621055
Creating Chaos for a Purpose
We specialize in chaos. In fact, we create chaos by developing simulated crisis exercises that test and validate crisis teams at all levels of an organization. In this blog I'm going to discuss three crisis scenarios that we have found to be of serious concern...
Increase the Challenge
In this 3rd episode of September’s crisis simulation exercise series, Rob discusses increasing the challenge as it relates to your exercise program. https://vimeo.com/360530183