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Beyond the hit-and-run tabletop exercise

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  • Hansen, Keith
  • Pounds, Lea

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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.

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  • Hansen, Keith & Pounds, Lea, 2009. "Beyond the hit-and-run tabletop exercise," Journal of Business Continuity & Emergency Planning, Henry Stewart Publications, vol. 3(2), pages 137-144, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:aza:jbcep0:y:2009:v:3:i:2:p:137-144
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    Keywords

    exercise; planning; improvement; tabletop;
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    JEL classification:

    • M1 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration
    • M10 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - General
    • M12 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Personnel Management; Executives; Executive Compensation

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