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Business Continuity · Crisis Management · Off-the-Shelf Exercise

Keep the Lights On

Corporate Resilience Exercise

A crisis exercise for the people who keep a business running. Take a strategic, tactical or operational seat, make the calls, and watch the consequences unfold.

Free · No login · ~15 minutes · 8 roles
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No prior knowledge needed.
Designed to be picked up off-the-shelf by any team. Your decisions mirror how real crisis and continuity management works — and they compound as the incident unfolds.
Before you start — exercise framing & facilitator notes
📌 Exercise Framing
Strategic worst case
Every core system down for weeks, customer data published, regulators and press involved, the survival of the business in question.
Realistic worst case
Serious but recoverable disruption with real pressure on people, service and reputation — the scenario you will play.
🎯 During the Exercise, Consider
💼 Your continuity plan: Which of your organisation's critical activities would this incident stop, how long could you tolerate that, and what does your plan say you would do?
📂 Your crisis framework: Who declares a crisis, who chairs the response, and who is allowed to speak for the organisation? Does everyone in the room agree?
🌐 Public guidance: The NCSC incident management collection and the ICO's breach reporting guidance are the public references this exercise draws on.
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🎭 Select Your Role

Each role faces unique decisions — choose your perspective

Pre-Exercise Briefing

EXERCISE

PHASE TRANSITION
Situation Update
The situation is developing.
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Time00:00
⚡ DECIDE NOW
Your Decision
OUTCOME
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📊 Decision Breakdown
📚 Key Learning Points
🔔 Recent Updates

📚 Decision Review

Role review