Some of the Toughest Business Continuity Questions Answered

Do you think you have the answers to the toughest questions in business continuity? From justifying budgets to preparing executives for unpredictable crises, resilience professionals face challenges that don’t always come with a clear playbook.
During Premier Continuum’s latest Ask the Expert Insights webinar, resilience professionals from around the world had the opportunity to bring their toughest questions directly to industry thought leader Margaret Millett, Ms BC, Hon FBCI, MBCP.
The result? A rich and practical conversation that tackled the most pressing issues facing business continuity and resilience professionals today.
Below, our team has compiled the top questions asked by participants. Read them to discover if you have the answers to the toughest questions in business continuity, and watch the webinar to discover our expert’s answers!
Here are Some of the Toughest Business Continuity Questions Answered
1. Securing Resources and Making Core Analyses Efficient
- What are the best ways to justify organizational resilience budgets?
- If you are in a smaller organization, how are ways of combining the BIA and the Risk Assessment together and making it more efficient?
2. Complex Environments and Supply Chains
- How can Business Continuity be managed in a complex supply chain?
- If IT DR was the first step and Business Continuity the second, what represents the step forward into Resilience?
3. Cyber and Technology Challenges
- Managing cyber crisis requires close collaboration between IT, security, and BC teams. What are the most common obstacles to this collaboration, and how can they be overcome? Do you have examples of organizational structures or processes that promote a unified and rapid response?
- What do you think the impact will be from Artificial Intelligence on BC and DR? What methodologies do you think can apply to leverage AI so it won’t replace or remove our positions entirely?
4. Defining Critical Targets
- How do you define a minimum RTO possible?
- How do you establish the minimum business continuity objective?
5. Perspectives and Leadership
- What is your perspective on Adaptive Business Continuity?
- When running exercises with top management to strengthen their strategic decision-making skills during an unpredictable crisis, what objectives and approaches would be the most effective?
Curious about the Answers?
Watch the replay of the webinar here!

About the Insights Webinar Series
The Insights Webinar Series by Premier Continuum is designed to provide practical insights, spark new ideas, and create a forum for meaningful exchange! These questions that emergered from the special Ask the Expert webinar shows how diverse and complex resilience challenges can be.
Stay tuned for Premier Continuum’s next Insights sessions here, and in the meantime, you can explore how award-winning software ParaSolution can help you strengthen your organization’s resilience at every level!
