Improve Organizational Resilience With a Tabletop Program
Don’t just plan for resilience – practice it.
- Mounting pressure from increasingly complex operations, a growing threat landscape, and stricter regulations are forcing leaders to bridge the gap between planning and execution.
- Failure to demonstrate operational resilience when responding to incidents, recovering systems, and continuing operations can result in significant financial and reputational damage.
- Traditional approaches to resilience planning rely on rigid playbooks, which do not impart the skills teams need to handle unexpected challenges in an actual crisis.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- The map is not the terrain.
- A plan is not enough; you must practice it under realistic conditions. Organizations that practice their procedures have better outcomes.
Impact and Result
- Implement a structured and interactive tabletop planning program that guides organizations through exercise design, execution, and continuous improvement.
- Focus on specific objectives and measurable outcomes to assess response readiness and refine plans after each exercise.
- Build long-term resilience by regularly practicing and updating incident response, disaster recovery, and continuity plans to ensure they remain effective in evolving threat environments.
Member Testimonials
After each Info-Tech experience, we ask our members to quantify the real-time savings, monetary impact, and project improvements our research helped them achieve. See our top member experiences for this blueprint and what our clients have to say.
10.0/10
Overall Impact
$15,796
Average $ Saved
12
Average Days Saved
Client
Experience
Impact
$ Saved
Days Saved
New Brunswick Community College (NBCC)
Guided Implementation
10/10
$2,000
2
The guided discussions and material reviews, along with the online resources, were crucial in designing, executing, and reviewing our institution's... Read More
Long Island Power Authority
Guided Implementation
10/10
$28,085
20
Able to schedule time with experts and the. Utilize the expert as a coach to bounce back ideas.
Corporation Of The City Of Orillia
Guided Implementation
10/10
$20,500
20
Erik was great to work with and has so much knowledge. We had a quote from a third party for a table top exercise at $15,000 cdn. This saved us eno... Read More
American Bankers Association
Guided Implementation
10/10
$12,599
5
Michele was great - very flexible with his scheduling, very hands one, knowledgeable. worst part - we aren't quite done with table tops to validat... Read More
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Guided Implementation 1: Design Program Objectives
- Call 1: Define program objectives and success criteria.
- Call 2: Assess current capabilities.
Guided Implementation 2: Design the Scenario and Plan the Sessions
- Call 1: Establish exercise format; craft scenario.
- Call 2: Prepare supporting materials; plan logistics.
Guided Implementation 3: Facilitate the Sessions
- Call 1: Advise on how to run a tabletop session and guide discussion.
Guided Implementation 4: Identify Outcomes and Next Steps
- Call 1: Debrief session; gather program feedback.
Contributors
- Adam Gerhard – CIO, Red River College Polytechnic
- Neil Fogg – Security Manager, Red River College Polytechnic
- Marlene Ross – CIO, Oak Valley Health
- Steve Tong – Security Manager, Oak Valley Health
- Eric Hargrave – CISO, Kleinfelder
- Rob Desiata – Risk Manager, Kleinfelder
- Jack Ryan – IT Director, Diverzify
- Greg Huelsmann – Director Security Operations, ServIT
- Anthony Williams – VP Security and Privacy, Loews Hotels
- Manuel Olivera – Director Technical Services, Loews Hotels
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