Extending Flexible Digital Table-top Concepts to Promote Recurrent Exercising

Abstract

While crisis exercising is a marginal phenomenon in most organisations and thus cannot be given the main attention of the upper management, it cannot be neglected. It is requested to be recurrently performed in order to keep crisis plans and managers at all levels updated and ready when an unexpected event strikes the organisation or the society at large. Reports from the inability to keep up a recurrent exercising has resulted in many suggestions for digital support. The present paper explains how looking at distinctive computational capabilities in cheap and available software can be the ground for shaping a recurrent work with crisis preparedness including exercises for lay crisis management teams.