A rerunnable crisis exercise built on your real sector and country footprint, drawn from decades of field research in conflict and crisis markets, and scored into a board-ready after-action report.
Beyond the single-use tabletop · refreshed quarterly · built on documented field cases, not invented scenarios
Most organizations exercise a crisis no more than once a year, and a single annual tabletop struggles to keep pace with risks that move by the quarter. Political and geopolitical risk now sits near the top of enterprise risk registers, yet almost all the productized exercise supply is cyber. The gap is geopolitical and socio-political crisis, exercised properly, on your own map.
Scenarios are generated against your actual operating geography, not a generic ransomware script.
Refresh the scenario set quarterly at near-zero marginal cost, on the cadence the rules now expect.
Every exercise is scored against a published analytical rubric and written up as a board-ready after-action report.
The judgment in Force Majeure was pressure-tested in the hardest environments on earth. The authors’ 2021 Harvard Business Review study found community-embedded firms were about 3× more likely to stay profitable and 9× more likely to survive a crisis. It tests financial and cultural judgment together, which is exactly where real companies fail.
We call it the Footprint Method, the same repeatable sequence on every engagement: map your exposure, generate scenarios on your real footprint, then exercise and report against a published four-part rubric.
A short discovery on your sectors, geographies, and the scenarios your board worries about most.
A custom scenario set is generated for your operating map and refreshed as the world changes.
A facilitated session for your team, scored into an after-action report mapped to the four-part rubric.
| What matters to a risk team | Force Majeure | Cyber tabletop & wargame vendors |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | Geopolitical, supply-chain, reputational, social | Mostly cyber, or generic leadership |
| Reusability | Rerunnable, refreshed quarterly | One-time facilitated event |
| Specificity | Built on your real sector and country footprint | Off-the-shelf script |
| Output | Board-ready report on a published rubric | Slides and a verbal debrief |
| Authority | Published, Nobel-nominated researchers | Vendor or consultancy |
Comparison reflects the productized supply we surveyed. Specific vendors differ; we are happy to map Force Majeure against whatever you run today.
A rerunnable exercise on your real footprint, scored into a written after-action report, lines up with what the major operational-resilience regimes ask firms to show. We frame each run around the regime you answer to.
The digital operational resilience testing programme and ICT third-party expectations call for scenario testing wider than a single cyber drill. Force Majeure exercises geopolitical, supply-chain and third-party shocks on your footprint and documents the result.
NIS2 places crisis-management and continuity duties on senior management. A facilitated exercise with a board-ready report evidences that leadership has tested and reviewed the response.
The UK regime expects firms to test severe but plausible scenarios against their important business services and impact tolerances. Each exercise is framed around those services and refreshed quarterly.
We map each exercise to the framework your committee reports against, including ISO 22361 crisis-management guidance.
A bespoke one-off tabletop exercise can run into the tens of thousands of dollars for a single afternoon. Our content engine builds the core for a fraction of that, so the same spend buys a rerunnable program rather than one static event.
Indicative ranges for scoping. Final pricing follows discovery.
Force Majeure exercises geopolitical, supply-chain, reputational, and social crisis on your real sector and country footprint. It is rerunnable and refreshed quarterly, where most productized exercises are one-time and centered on cyber.
Yes. A short discovery maps your operating geography and the scenarios your board worries about most, then the scenario set is generated against that footprint and refreshed as conditions change.
Indicative ranges run about $12k to $18k for a pilot, $30k to $50k for a full bespoke exercise, and $80k to $150k a year for an annual readiness program. Every exercise is scored on a four-part rubric and written up as a board-ready after-action report.
The cadence and documented output line up with operational-resilience expectations under DORA, the management duties in NIS2, and the UK operational-resilience regime. We map the exercise to whatever framework your committee reports against.
More answers in the full FAQ.
Tell us your footprint and what your board is worried about. We reply with a scoped brief.
Tell us your sector, footprint, and objective.
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