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12 Tasks to Organize your Tabletop Exercise
As part of the preparation to conduct a tabletop exercise there are several important administrative and technical items that are easy to forget. Forgetting one or more of these items may lead to a less than desirable outcome during the exercise. Here's that list:...
The Kidnapped CEO
Kidnap, Ransom, and Extortion Scenario Planning The CEO lands in Rome for an executive leadership conference and never arrives at his hotel. Calls to his mobile phone go straight into voice mail. His scheduled driver and security detail in Rome have also gone missing....
Crisis Exercise – The After Action Report
An After Action Report (AAR) is used to provide feedback on the exercise. It summarizes exercise events and analyzes performance of the tasks identified as important during the planning process. It also evaluates achievement of the selected exercise objectives and...
Assess and Identify Risk With “TRiM” – Trauma Risk Management
It’s a routine day in your busy city office. Nothing unusual until something utterly catastrophic and unexpected ruins your day, maybe your life. Terrorist attack, industrial accident, natural disaster, lone shooter, unprovoked serious assault, the...
Takata: How to turn a manageable product recall into a disaster
The Takata airbag crisis is a case study of how mishandled communications can transform a serious, but still manageable, product recall into what may very well become an ultimate catastrophe for the company. No one can say at this point if Takata will ever...
INTERVIEW: Expert, Marisa Randazzo, Ph.D., talks Education Risk Management
Q: What are the most rewarding elements of working within the education risk management space? A: Threat assessment is considered to be the current best practice for handling threatening situations and preventing targeted violence at colleges and universities, in K-12...
Six Guidelines for Ethical Crisis Communications
Acting and communicating ethically should be a daily priority for any organization. However, during a crisis, the stakes grow higher, and the ethical challenges of communicating both accurately and strategically can be very complicated. For example: How should...
3 Important Takeaways from Emory University Hospital’s Ebola Controversy
Emory University Hospital had a tough crowd to deal with when they announced that they’d be receiving and caring for two American missionary doctors who had contracted the Ebola virus in West Africa. However, the way they chose to handle the issue and...
War-gaming – Part 1: The History
The term, "war-game" is simply a translation of the German term, "kriegspiel." Because many are simply uncomfortable with the term "war-game," feeling perhaps that war is too serious for "games," you will often see every term but war-game used to describe war-games....
Pandemic Business Continuity Planning – Session Two
During our first discussion on the need for a Pandemic Business Continuity Plan we emphasized that planning for a pandemic is different than planning for other contingencies. The primary challenge you will encounter during a pandemic is not how to deal...