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Mastering Business Continuity Exercises: Best Practices, Scenarios, and Tools for 2025

BCP Builder

The key to resilience lies in preparationand thats where business continuity exercises come in. These exercises help organisations test, refine, and strengthen their business continuity plans (BCPs) to ensure theyre ready for anything. Health Crisis Test your readiness for a sudden health emergency, like a pandemic.

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Post-Pandemic Business Continuity Recovery Strategies

FEI

It wasn’t just small business that took a major hit during the pandemic. All this leads to the question: How do you continue to respond to crises with a skeleton staff? Here are a few tips to keep in mind when developing your own business continuity plan: Have training documents prepared. Develop a plan for data backup.

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Testing your Response Plans: What Would Confucius Say?

On Solve

With the help of Confucius, Dr. Steve Goldman discusses the importance of testing your business resiliency and related response plans. A BR/CM/CC/DR plan exercise validates the plan and procedures, tests/trains responders in simulated real conditions and provides feedback to the plan developers and responders.

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How Business Continuity Leaders Can Shine a Light on a Dark Day

On Solve

That means business continuity leaders like you must be able to communicate and execute crisis response plans quickly and effectively. In today’s complex threat landscape, you’re tasked with optimizing a continuous improvement process. You’ve created and communicated updated protocols so your people stay safe.

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7 Skills Leaders Must Master for Effective Response to Critical Events

everbridge

Much of the discussion on and organization’s state of readiness for critical events focuses on the capabilities and planning of the enterprise. Emergency response planning is crucial, but even the most robust plan can’t cover all situations. This is where the leadership skills of emergency managers come into play.

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Russia and the Ukraine: How Geopolitical Events Impact Resilience Management

Castellan

When it comes to business continuity planning, a lot of organizations think about anticipated event types and make plans to adequately address them. And some of the best programs take this one step further—they imagine other plausible scenarios and create plans that are flexible enough to address those types of events, too.

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Continuity Strategies to Support an Enterprise Resiliency Program

eBRP

To build an Adaptive, Resilient Enterprise , organizations must move beyond conventional Business Continuity Management (BCM) approaches. Traditional BCM is often limited to tactical response plans, perceived simply as insurance policies that rarely spark high-level executive engagement.