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Your Tabletop Exercise Exposed Recovery Gaps. Here Is What to Do in the Next 90 Days.
The worst outcome of a tabletop exercise is not finding gaps. It is finding them, writing them into a tabletop exercise after…
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How to Choose a Tabletop Exercise Facilitator: Seven Questions to Ask Before You Sign
Most organizations choose a tabletop exercise facilitator on the scenario pitch and the price. They should choose on two things the sales…
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Special Needs and Emergency Preparedness: Tailored Advice for Individuals with Disabilities
The following statement will not surprise individuals with chronic medical conditions or disabilities or their caregivers. Emergencies can happen unexpectedly, and their…
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Hurricane Planning for Business: Essential Steps for Resilience
Hurricanes are getting stronger, wetter, and harder to predict from the storm count alone. Regardless of location or industry, organizations must recognize…
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Optimizing Crisis Management Exercises: Best Practices From Drills to Crisis Simulations
Learn how to optimize crisis management exercises for business success, including common pitfalls, simulation strategies, and post-exercise reviews.
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Business Continuity, Crisis Management, Cybersecurity, Disaster Recovery, Emergency Planning & Exercises, Information Security, Intelligence & Global SecurityWhat Is Resilience?
Is it just me, or is “resilience” the new buzzword? The concept seems straightforward in a personal context; building up the psychological…
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Webinar: Leading Crisis & Business Continuity Exercises That Don’t Suck
Most Crisis Management & Business Continuity exercises are slow-moving, ponderous affairs that might check the box on an audit report but do…
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Active Shooter Programs, Crisis Communications, Crisis Management, Emergency Planning & Exercises, Intelligence & Global Security, Workplace ViolenceNew Webinar: Shots Fired – Leading in an Active Shooter Incident
Active shooter incidents are at the top of every senior executive’s list of threats across the United States. Much effort and attention…
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What Is Crisis Management? Definition, Goal, and the Basics
Crisis management is how your organization prepares for, responds to, and recovers from events that threaten its people, its operations, its reputation,…
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NFPA 1660 (Formerly NFPA 1600): An Overview of the Standard and How to Use It
NFPA 1600 no longer exists as a standalone standard. The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) folded it into NFPA 1660, and the…
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Anatomy of a Crisis
Definition of a Crisis according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary: a: an unstable or crucial time or state of affairs in which a…
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Crisis Exercises: Why Are They Important?
We aren’t talking about side-bends or sit-ups here. This is a different type of New Year’s resolution and it’s about why you…
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Crisis Communications: Friend or Foe? (en dash replaced with a colon)
Here is the scenario – your team is pretty well prepared for a disaster. You’ve done the drills, have the plans in…
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Business Continuity, Crisis Communications, Crisis Management, Emergency Planning & Exercises, Journal Articles, PublicationsJournal Article: When a Drip Becomes a Flood: Lessons Learned from Target Corporation’s First Large-Scale Business Disruption
In 2013, Target Corporation suffered an extensive, unanticipated, long-term disruption to one of its headquarters buildings in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The cause? A…
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Resilient Communities Need Public/Private Partnerships to Survive
On October 29, 2012, Hurricane Sandy came ashore in New Jersey as a massive, slow-moving storm with hurricane-force winds. At the time,…
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