7. Conclusion

Crisis exercises help to improve the resilience of organizations by giving them the opportunity to practice crisis management as a group, even though opportunities to do so are few and far between. Exercises also allow us to experiment with new methods and opportunities that are difficult to investigate when it comes to managing a real crisis.

Preparing a crisis exercise requires resources and expertise, if you want to ensure its educational impact. Consequently, having the concrete keys to establishing all the elements required to successfully carry out an exercise makes the task of preparing an exercise much easier. The aim of this article is to outline the various stages involved in producing an exercise (planning, scenario design, preparation of animation tools, setting the scene and exercise locations).

The fact remains that implementing...