Testing Preparedness and Crisis Response Capabilities

theWorstCase.com has established expertise in finding ways to develop organizational and management capacity to respond to critical incidents. We draw upon a diverse range of experience in public sector and corporate crisis management that include military experience as a United Nations Peacekeeper in Bosnia-Herzegovina (UNPROFOR), field missions with international organizations operating in hostile environments and extensive support to corporate actors operating globally. We employ the latest Web 2.0 tools, New Media and Social Networking to effectively bring our simulations to life.

A real test of a crisis management’s team ability to meet the challenges of its risk profile cannot remain at the classroom level. There needs to be credible pressure applied through a realistic simulation. A simulation exercise offers an unprecedented opportunity for management and staff to share experiences, ideas and considerations within a demanding, interactive arena. It provides a safe but challenging learning environment, a sort of laboratory where there are no limits of what is right and wrong. Simulations have the decisive advantage of empowering participants to apply 'learning by doing', and allows them to an immediate application of their understanding and knowledge.

theWorstCase.com has a strong track-record of delivering simulation exercises which bring together a crisis management team, with different cultural and professional backgrounds, in far-flung geographic locations, to work through the challenges of a critical incident as a team. In addition to this critical testing of the client’s preparedness and planning, we provide a post-exercise evaluation report which draws conclusions and recommendations for the client to integrate into their thinking and operating. Many of the web-based tools that we employ can be adopted by our clients to streamline and enhance their own crisis management and communication.

Case Study

theWorstCase.com has developed and delivered simulations that address operations in hostile environments, kidnapping, armed attacks on facilities, avian influenza, environmental disasters and other critical situations that affect their clients' ability to ensure business continuity in 'worst case scenarios'.

Recent examples of our work for multi-agency audiences include the Security Management Initiative (SMI) of the Harvard Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research, the Advanced Training Program on Humanitarian Action (ATHA) of the Swedish International Development Agency, and the Security Management in Hazardous Environments course, developed for the Folk Bernadotte Academy (FBA). Our record of work on behalf of corporate clients is diverse and global covering sectors such as pharmaceuticals, personal care products, animal health, alcoholic beverages, encryption technology and petroleum products trading. Preparedness testing has varied from simple alert or call-up tests to more complex simulations spanning several countries.


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