During an exercise or war game there will often occur a key decision point when it becomes necessary or more time efficient to break out some of the participants into a separate smaller group, often called a “breakout group.” This small group can be very effective in obtaining a comprehensive view of a problem,…
Prior to designing your Crisis Simulation Tabletop Exercise, ensure you understand the end-to-end process that you intend to use. This can be as easy as a four step process as I describe within this short post. Step 1 – Compose Develop your exercise objectives and general exercise design (who, when, where and…
Creating a crisis management simulation exercise for your company for the first time can be a daunting task that requires time and resources. When preparing these sessions it is important to understand what resources exist to assist with the successful planning and delivery of the event. Here are three resources that might help you…
Click HERE is you missed Corporate Wargames – Lessons 1 & 2 Click HERE is you missed Corporate Wargames – Lessons 3 & 4 Lesson Five – Exercise / Wargame Hot Wash A hot wash is the “after-action” discussions and evaluations of an organization’s performance following an exercise/war game, training session, or major event,…
In episode 20 of our Whiteboard Wednesday video series, Rob chats again from home about the importance of building and maintaining your crisis management skills in between exercises.
Click HERE is you missed Corporate Wargames – Lessons 1 & 2 Lesson Three – Exercise Program vs. Singular Exercises A bottom up approach works well when a company or organization wants to exercise their response to a disruption of business operations at the impacted site. Examples of such disruptions include weather-related events (hurricane, flood,…
In the 18th episode of our Whiteboard Wednesday video series, Rob discusses Exercise Logistics – when, where, technology, materials, security requirements, etc.
In the 17th episode of our Whiteboard Wednesday video series, Rob discusses the Exercise Control Team, which is the group responsible for creating, delivering and evaluating the exercise.
In the 16th episode of our Whiteboard Wednesday video series, Rob discusses a few ideas to help generate your scenario.
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 techniques are far less expensive, and much more quickly applied, than actually building and testing a new concept or technology. Over…