Business Continuity

Exercising Plans

Practice makes perfect – and on this page you’ll find all the tools you need to help you get prepared and practise your plans. Talk to us if you have any questions about any of the products shown here or if you need something a little different.

Toolkits

Off-the-shelf

Buy our off-the-shelf Multimedia Exercising Boxset or let us help you create a bespoke kit to suit your scenario:

Bespoke

Exercise efficiency. Create an international exercising standard for your organisation with a Multimedia toolkit. DVD and CD Packages with on-screen briefings, exercise manager guides, templates, tips, news bulletins, webpages, audio clips, sound effects and role-play scripts.

Audio

We will create bespoke audio injects and pressure points tailored to your storyline . We also produce audio training plays that help communicate key messages. Listen to a selection of audio pieces here.

Film

We can create realistic news bulletins, reports and packages to help introduce and punctuate your storyline, bringing realism and professionalism to your exercises. View some of our film work here.

Print

Enhance your exercise with mock newspapers and news web pages adding a further media dimension.

Guides

We produce detailed scenarios and ‘how-to’ manuals to make facilitating your exercises simple.

Film

Scenario-based exercising films

We create scenario-specific films for exercising, useful for larger global organisations who wish to instill consistency in exercising around the globe. These can be produced with an on-screen facilitator and a full off-screen facilitation guide to save on travel budgets

Filming your exercises

We provide professional film crews to film your exercises with multiple cameras (if required) and edit the output into a useful permanent record to help inform your own training.

Latest News!

Watch the trailer for Practice Makes Perfect the latest training film made exclusively for the Business Continuity Institute. Please follow the BCI link on the homepage to order your copy.

Contact us for more information on exercise films.

Role-players

Actors

We provide fully-briefed professional actors to attend your exercise days and play a variety of roles from worried relatives of employees to walking wounded. Talented and convincing, these actors inject reality into any scenario based exercise.

Journalists

We provide professional journalists to inject a real-life ad-hoc media presence to large-scale exercises – a crucial component in board level exercising. We film all interaction and edit the output into a news package.

Contact us for more information on role-players.

Guides and manuals

‘How-to’ Guides

We produce bespoke, easy-to-follow guidance documents and manuals which will lead you through the process of preparing for and running an exercise.

Facilitator guides

We script facilitator guides to accompany any exercise scenario with clear navigation and helpful trainer notes and script. Contact us for more information on guides and manuals.

Events

Plays, conferences and road shows

To help you launch and roll-out your exercising toolkits and really engage your Business Continuity practitioners, nothing works better than an event. We produce many bespoke events for a wide variety of clients to educate and motivate teams. Contact us for more information on events.

Webpages and Social Networking

Internet, social networking and webpage injects

We ensure that your injects are delivered in a way that reflects how information is received during an incident. We design realistic and dynamic online newspages with embedded film and audio links, to give your exercises credibility and stand out.

We create Facebook and Twitter injects to drive your storyline, offering your crisis teams the opportunity to explore the pressures of social networking sites during an incident.

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