Charlie Maclean-Bristol discusses developing objectives for your exercises and the importance of risk assessments and teamwork.
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Ten Reasons Why You Should Conduct Short Exercises
Charlie Maclean-Bristol talks about the benefits of short exercises, particularly if you are a beginner at running exercises.
Being short doesn't necessarily mean bad, well at least in business continuity exercises. If you are an exercise beginner or want to carry out more exercises, then here are 10…
SIMEX exercises involve incident management teams responding to unfolding scenarios. This exercise is unique in simulating the real-life experience of a real incident.
Wicked Problems - What Do I Need To Know?
by Charlie Maclean-Bristol, FBCI, FEPS
Charlie Maclean-Bristol discusses the theory of wicked problems, what it means for business continuity professionals and how we are able to implement this idea into our plans.
This week I wanted to share with you all an academic theory around wicked…
These and many more one-hour exercises are contained in Charlie Maclean-Bristol’s new book, Business Continuity Exercises: Quick Exercises to Validate Your Plan.
These exercises and many more one-hour exercises are contained in Charlie Maclean-Bristol’s new book, Business Continuity Exercises: Quick Exercises to Validate Your Plan.
These exercises and many more one-hour exercises are contained in Charlie Maclean-Bristol’s new book, Business Continuity Exercises: Quick Exercises to Validate Your Plan.
The main scenario people write plans for is the loss of their building, and they may have some other plans for loss of people, suppliers, or IT. Often the scenario plans, which I like to call contingency plans, are generic, contain little detail and do not align to the risk the organization faces.
Emergency Planning and Disaster Exercises
Realistic disaster exercises are designed to help an organization test a hypothetical situation, such as a natural or man-made disaster. The purpose of experiencing a disaster exercise is to evaluate a group's ability to cooperate and work together. In addition to this, the simulation tested emergency managers to see how…
We're excited to announce our newest author: Charlie Maclean-Bristol.
Charlie is currently working on a new book project that addresses Short Business Continuity Exercises. This new project gives a businesses a way to execute exercises in under an hour.