OUR EXERCISE PROGRAMS

Continuous Solutions Ltd offer a range of flexible exercise programs to support varying needs and objectives.  Whilst we can develop bespoke exercises to meet specific objectives of clients, most of our clients find that they can easily find a suitable format for their exercise, from the following list:

Desk Top Walk -Through Exercise:
A straight forward incident scenario situation is presented to the Incident Management Team. Our consultant facilitates the process as the team workshops their response procedures.  The aim is to provide the Incident Response Team with the opportunity to familirise themselves with the documentation and allow them to become better acquainted with the procedures for managing an incident.  This option is particularly useful for incident management teams with very little experience or when walking through newly implemented incident management procedures.

Partial Role Playing Exercise:
The Incident Management team is presented with a scenario of a major incident related to their business.  Faced with mounting issues and increasingly unexpected complications introduced by our expert facilitator the team must enact their roles and responsibilities as they would if the incident was for real. For the purpose of the exercise, communications are controlled by the facilitator and kept mainly within the exercise room only.  The type of exercise is designed to challenge the Incident Management Team by increasing the dynamics of the exercise and injecting a level of realism over issues faced and pressures experienced.

Full Role Playing Exercise:
The full role playing exercise will introduce a very real and pressurised environment from which the Incident Management Team / Crisis Management Team can really develop and exploit its skills.  It included external roll players, wider communications, increased pressures and an excellent opportunity to enact an incident situation whilst retain a controlled approach, enhancing skills and encouraging real learnings.

Partial Mobilisation Exercise:
An effective means of creating both awareness of individuals and allowing some testing of disaster recovery arrangements.  The partial mobilisation exercise requires the need for participants and organisations to enact the recovery of critical assets.  Whilst this approach requires more intensive planning, the benefits derived in challenging this recovery capability, in a controlled way, can be significant to the organisation.

Full Mobilisations Exercise:
Full mobilisation exercises are often associated with the mobilisation of IT disaster recovery, or office disaster recovery arrangements.  This approach is not exclusive to these areas alone and as such should be considered for any environment where your disaster recovery arrangements are able to undergo an invocation process in a test environment.  It is an ideal means of testing your disaster recovery capability and in turn providing your organisation with the assurance over its suitability.  This approach can also be combined with either of the above role play exercises to provide comprehensive assurance to the business over its response and recovery capabilities.