4 Best Practices for Creating a Strong Business Continuity Plan

2. Ensure that your business process is functional. Test and test again. In the past, it was common to test business continuity processes by simply going to a hot site and restoring the system. Today, it's critical to define and determine the mission-critical processes and systems necessary to support and test them, with each test becoming a bit more complex as retailers track resiliency across all verticals. More and more retailers are executing validation recovery exercises against their business continuity plans at least yearly, a big increase from the past.