Beyond the hit-and-run tabletop exercise

Keith Hansen and Lea Pounds

Journal of Business Continuity & Emergency Planning, 2009, vol. 3, issue 2, 137-144

Abstract: Post-disaster is not the time to discover whether one’s business continuity and emergency plans work. To assess effectiveness, many organisations and businesses conduct exercises on a regular basis. A cycle of plan, train, exercise, repeat is a reliable method of continuously improving an organisation’s ability to survive a threatening man-made or natural event. For organisations that exercise their plans on a regular basis, interjecting a novel approach into this cycle is often a welcome change of pace. Long-term tabletops offer this change of pace and a number of other benefits such as time to formulate well thought-out responses, allowing ‘play’ from secondary and tertiary responders, and the flexibility to adapt the exercise in mid-stream. While no method of exercising is without flaws, long-term tabletops maintain the strengths of traditional tabletops while adding additional benefits.

Keywords: exercise; planning; improvement; tabletop (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M1 M10 M12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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