What Crisisplan does

Crisisplan BV is a privately held Dutch consultancy specializing in strategic crisis management for public and private sector organizations. Founded in 1992 and headquartered in Leiden, the firm operates with a small specialist team (11-50 employees) led by Managing Director Werner Overdijk and co-founder Arjen Boin (Leiden University). Its core offering spans advisory engagements, team training modules, large-scale crisis simulations and exercises, applied research, and educational programs — all targeted at improving organizational preparedness, strategic decision-making, and resilience for acute, institutional, and reputational crises.

The firm's principal technology asset is CrisisHub, a proprietary web-based strategic crisis management software platform launched in January 2018. CrisisHub supports situation report (sitrep) creation for the strategic level, provides decision-making checklists, embeds crisis simulations for team training, and supports concurrent multi-team and multi-partner collaboration. Complementary tools include a Planning Wizard for crisis plan authoring, a Quickscan assessment tool, and a survey tool for transboundary crisis management capacities. Crisisplan's content moat rests on its founders' published books and peer-reviewed research (e.g., 'Handboek voor Strategisch Crisismanagement' and 'Governing the Pandemic') and active participation in 11+ EU Horizon 2020 and FP7 research consortia.

Crisisplan monetizes through fee-based professional services contracts (project work billed monthly), training and education (some VAT-exempt under CRKBO registration), simulation/exercise fees, and recurring CrisisHub software licensing. Customer concentration is primarily Dutch government ministries, municipalities, safety regions, NCTV, hospitals, utilities, and telecom operators, with one disclosed international engagement supporting Jordan's national crisis management under a NATO Defence Capacity Building project. Distribution is direct and relationship-driven, leveraging academic reputation, conference participation, and EU project visibility rather than paid marketing.

Name

Crisisplan

Legal name

Crisisplan BV

Website

https://crisisplan.nl

Company type

Private

Founded year

1992

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Crisisplan BV is a Leiden-based Dutch consultancy specializing in strategic crisis management advisory, training, simulations, and its proprietary CrisisHub software platform for public and private sector clients.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Crisis Management Consulting

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (5415), Custom Computer Programming Services (541511)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Business Continuity, Crisis Management & Operational Resilience (BPAHAFAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Turnaround, Restructuring & Crisis Management Consulting (BPAHACAO), Business Continuity, Crisis Management & Resilience Planning (BPAKADAI)

Keywords

• Crisis management consulting
• Crisis simulation training
• Business continuity planning
• Crisis management software
• Strategic advisory services

Headquarters

HQ city

Leiden

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Advisory and Consulting Services: Advisory engagements for improving crisis management processes, structures, and practices. Charged on a project/fee basis with monthly invoicing.
2. Training and Education: Team training modules and educational programs for public and private sector organizations, including short vocational training exempt from VAT under CRKBO registration.
3. Crisis Simulations and Exercises: Large-scale simulations and crisis exercises for senior executives and management teams.
4. CrisisHub Software Licensing: SaaS-based access to the CrisisHub strategic crisis management platform, available via subscription or per-organization license.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Crisisplan BV is a Dutch consultancy that advises public and private sector organizations on strategic crisis management. Its core offering combines advisory engagements, team training modules, and large-scale crisis simulations/exercises, supported by its proprietary CrisisHub software platform for strategic-level situation reports, decision-making checklists, and team-based simulation training. Additional services include applied research, business continuity planning assistance using the Planning Wizard, and quick-readiness Quickscan assessments.

Product overview

Crisisplan offers a suite of crisis management services centered around its proprietary CrisisHub software platform. The core offering includes strategic crisis management software complemented by consulting services, training programs, and planning tools. CrisisHub serves as the primary technology product, supporting organizations with situation reports, strategic decision-making checklists, and crisis simulations. Additional products include the Planning Wizard and Quickscan for crisis preparation assessment. The service portfolio spans planning and preparation, training and practicing, applied research, education, and advisory services for both public and private sector clients.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• CrisisHub Proprietary web-based strategic crisis management software platform that supports organizations during chaotic crisis management processes by creating situation reports (sitreps) for the strategic level, providing checklists for strategic decision-making, and containing crisis simulations for training strategic support teams; can be used simultaneously by multiple teams and cooperating crisis partners.
• Advisory and Consulting Services (Advies) Consulting services that advise and guide organizations in improving processes, practices, and structures aimed at managing acute, institutional, and reputational crises; delivered for both public and private sector clients on a project/fee basis with monthly invoicing.
• Training and Practicing (Teamtrainingen) Training modules and practice programs for public and private sector organizations, including media simulators that create real-life external environments and serious games that teach teams to deal with crisis dynamics; also covers in-company education modules, interactive lectures, tailor-made courses, and complete learning programs covering the full crisis cycle.
• Crisis Simulations and Exercises Large-scale simulations and crisis exercises designed for senior executives, governing councils, and management teams, including scenarios for top managers, ministers, and board-level audiences.
• Planning and Preparation Services (Planning Wizard) Crisis preparation services that help organizations write solid, accessible, and effective crisis plans describing the most important processes, structures, and arrangements, using the Planning Wizard — a unique method developed by Crisisplan that produces a basic crisis plan that can be easily expanded and adapted over time.
• Quickscan Crisis Preparedness Assessment A quick and easy online test for a first assessment of an organization's crisis preparedness, and a Survey Tool used to survey transboundary crisis management capacities in organizations.
• Business Continuity Services Assistance in building business continuity plans for organizations using Crisisplan's Planning Wizard methodology.
• Applied Research Applied scientific research into crisis vulnerabilities, causes of crises, and crisis management performance, including analysis of crisis scenarios, evaluation of crisis performance, and thinking through potential consequences; conducted in collaboration with academic institutions such as Leiden University.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 50 crisis professionals from diverse Dutch public safety organizations attended one Crisisplan-organized event to discuss future crisis management improvements.

Named customers5 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Leiden UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 27 October 2021Co-organizer of the international 'After the Deluge' conference (October 2021) bringing together academics, researchers, and practitioners to discuss crisis management research and preparedness.
• MSB (Institute for Safety Education)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 27 October 2021Co-organizer of the 'After the Deluge' conference, contributing to crisis management education and research dissemination.
• The Swedish Institute of International AffairscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 27 October 2021Co-organizer of the 'After the Deluge' conference alongside Leiden University and MSB.
• Team Dynamis (led by Dynamis, Inc., with Berglind-Manning, L.C.)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 19 February 2018Crisisplan participates as a partner in a three-year NATO Defence Capacity Building project led by Team Dynamis, supporting Jordan's national crisis management capabilities.
• The Crisis ProfessionalsminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorThe Crisis Professionals serves as Crisisplan's partner for recruitment and selection of crisis management professionals.
• GMW Advocaten B.V.minorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerGMW Advocaten B.V. in The Hague provides the independent appeals commission (beroepscommissie) for Crisisplan's education and training complaints procedure. The commission's ruling is binding for Crisisplan BV.
• ECABOminorOthersECABO is the Dutch intermediate vocational education board through which Crisisplan is registered as an authorized training company for MBO internships.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Fusion Risk Management: Operational resilience and crisis management software vendor serving large enterprises and governments—competes with CrisisHub on strategic-level crisis and continuity tooling.
• Resolver: Software vendor for incident management, crisis response, and risk/compliance—competes with CrisisHub in the operational-to-strategic crisis management software category.
• Everbridge: Publicly listed critical event management and crisis notification software vendor serving governments and enterprises—directly comparable to CrisisHub at the software layer.
• Noggin (Noggin OCA): Provider of integrated crisis management, business continuity, and operational resilience software, competing head-to-head with CrisisHub in the strategic crisis and continuity platform category.
• Crisis24 (GardaWorld): Crisis24 (now GardaWorld) is a global integrated risk management and crisis response firm offering advisory, intelligence, and crisis management software—the closest full-stack peer to Crisisplan's advisory-plus-platform model.

Broad incumbents

• FTI Consulting: Global advisory firm with a dedicated Strategic Communications and Public Affairs practice that includes crisis and issues management consulting, serving large corporates and governments.
• Control Risks: Global risk consultancy providing crisis and incident response, political risk, and security consulting to large enterprises and governments—overlaps with Crisisplan's strategic advisory offering but at much larger scale.
• Deloitte (Risk Advisory): Big Four advisory firm offering enterprise-wide crisis management, resilience, and continuity services to governments and large organizations—broader portfolio but directly overlapping practice areas.
• KPMG (Risk Advisory): Big Four advisory firm with risk consulting and crisis management practices serving multinational enterprises and public sector clients—broader portfolio but overlapping crisis advisory.

Others

• Business Continuity Institute (BCI): Global professional body for business continuity and resilience practitioners; not a competitor but a related ecosystem organization whose members include Crisisplan's buyers and partners.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/crisisplan10

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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