For Want of a Nail: The Art of Realistic, Believable Exercise Scenarios

Suddenly (or not so suddenly) it is that time of the year; the time for you to start to plan the annual senior management tabletop exercise. That’s the four- to eight-hour event where folks at the C-level assemble and wrestle a firm-wide crisis to the ground. Not a simple task, as it includes a host of individual details and the complexity of scheduling a group of diverse folks with demanding calendars and commitments. Developing an exercise scenario involving this level of management is itself a major undertaking. It entails formulating a situation to engage all parties continuously over an extended…