Achieving and Maintaining Optimal Crisis Management

Achieving and Maintaining Optimal Crisis Management

Achieving and maintaining optimal crisis preparedness requires several activities throughout the year.   From the review of the crisis management plan to the training and exercising of crisis management teams, achieving, and then maintaining optimal crisis...
Near Horizon – A COVID-19 Recovery Exercise

Near Horizon – A COVID-19 Recovery Exercise

So many business continuity issues must be considered over the next few weeks and months – – ranging from business survival, protecting employee health, protecting existing customer relations while gaining new ones, protecting supply chains, liquidity and...
NASA Knows: 4 Key Lessons Learned From Tabletop Exercises

NASA Knows: 4 Key Lessons Learned From Tabletop Exercises

To NASA, fifty years ago and up to this day, NASA’s life-or-death learning is achieved through emergency simulation exercises.   Gerry Griffin knows a thing or two about responding to risks. He was the Mission Control flight director for all of NASA’s Apollo...
4 Essential Cyber Security Tabletop Exercise Tips

4 Essential Cyber Security Tabletop Exercise Tips

When is the last time your organization conducted a cyber security tabletop exercise?   Cyber security teams are busy monitoring and responding to attacks against your organization’s information technology infrastructure. Should you still be conducting tabletop...

Three Reasons Why Your Organization Needs a (Mini) Crisis

One of my favorite George Carlin quotes is, “I never worry that ALL hell will break loose. My concerns is that a PART of hell will break loose. It’ll be much harder to detect.”   I have always loved that quote because it’s true in the lives of crisis management...