2 PLANNING THE TABLETOP EXERCISE

Before you can develop the tabletop exercise, you need to lay its foundation. This chapter will walk you through that process, outlining the factors you should consider in the preparation and planning stage. The advice in this chapter comes from hundreds of conversations with our clients, who frequently ask the same several questions that you’ll need to answer prior to constructing the tabletop exercise.

These foundational questions include the following: Who from the executive level is providing support? What are the organization’s goals and objectives? What is the exercise’s tenor? Whom should you invite? ...

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