by PreparedEx | Mar 7, 2018
A military background isn’t necessary to run a successful tabletop exercise or war gaming scenario. The idea of war gaming as a resource to practice strategic planning and increasing your readiness for the worst-case scenarios has been around for hundreds, if not...
by PreparedEx | Feb 7, 2018
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | RSSHow does your organization prepare for crises? Have you been through the planning process thoroughly? In this interview, we speak with WeWork’s crisis and emergency preparedness...
by PreparedEx | Feb 1, 2018
A Crisis Simulation exercise is a great opportunity for a team of professionals to come together and address gaps and issues they may have when it comes to an event. It is a controlled environment for you to understand individual skillsets during a crisis and how the...
by Rob Burton | Nov 15, 2017
These Seven Tips Will Help You Create Impactful and Memorable Crisis Simulation Tabletop Exercises 1. Ensure your tabletop exercise gets off to a good start by doing this…. Ensure you invite the right audience. This may seem obvious, but I have seen tabletop exercises...
by PreparedEx | Nov 8, 2017
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | RSS58 people died and over 500 were injured during a music festival in Las Vegas on October 1st, 2017. A lone actor shot at festival goers from the Mandalay Bay Hotel room, a scenario...
by Mark Hoffman | Oct 31, 2017
Let me begin by stating my position very clearly: I do not write scenario-based business continuity plans. I don’t think that it’s appropriate to base your continuity protocols on a series of unfortunate events so specific that your strategy is obsolete if the...
