Practical Business Continuity Exercises
eBook - ePub

Practical Business Continuity Exercises

How to Test Your Organization’s Resilience

  1. 283 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Practical Business Continuity Exercises

How to Test Your Organization’s Resilience

About this book

How can leaders ensure business continuity plans deliver proven results under real-world pressures?

Practical Business Continuity Exercises is a strategic guide for business continuity leaders and managers who need tools to test their organization's resilience to disruption. From cyberattacks and IT failures to supply chain breakdowns and geopolitical crises, this book shows how to design exercises that protect operations, safeguard reputation and secure long-term stability.

Written by Charlie Maclean-Bristol, it provides a guidance for developing exercises that align with global standards including ISO 22301:2019 and ISO 22398:2013. Through expert insight, it equips leaders to stress-test their organization's business continuity plans, measure performance and ensure ROI on resilience investments.

You'll learn how to:
- Select the most effective exercise to match organizational priorities
- Strengthen leadership decision making in simulated high-pressure scenarios
- Embed risk governance and compliance into continuity strategies
- Measure outcomes and sustain resilience with clear, data-led metrics

Featuring real-world examples and practical tools, Practical Business Continuity Exercises enables leaders to anticipate disruption, maintain stakeholder confidence and deliver lasting organizational resilience.

Themes include: business continuity exercises, resilience strategy, risk management, ROI in continuity planning

Information

Publisher
Kogan Page
Year
2026
Print ISBN
9781398628236
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781398628243
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Business Strategy
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. List of figures and tables
  2. About the author
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. 01 Introduction to business continuity exercises
  5. 02 The different types of business continuity exercises
  6. 03 Guidance for designing and developing SIMEXs
  7. 04 Building a multi-year strategic exercise roadmap
  8. 05 Making exercises educational by design
  9. 06 Defining individual and team capabilities to build organizational response capability
  10. 07 The 4D’s: a four-phase framework for designing and delivering effective exercises
  11. 08 From umpires to participants: understanding exercise roles
  12. 09 Agreeing on the exercise logistics: when, where, who and how long
  13. 10 Writing the purpose and exercise objectives
  14. 11 Deciding on the scope of the exercise
  15. 12 Designing the scenario
  16. 13 Determining the type and structure of the exercise
  17. 14 Developing the storyboard
  18. 15 Verisimilitude: making your exercise come to life
  19. 16 Developing tabletop questions or injects
  20. 17 Evaluating the incident team’s performance and assessing the exercise
  21. 18 Delivering the exercise
  22. 19 Cold debrief and follow-up
  23. 20 Exercise documentation
  24. Appendix: Guidance on conducting cyber incident management exercises
  25. Glossary
  26. Index

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