Episode Summary:

This week on the podcast, we’re going to speak with a practitioner who faced the challenge of needing a BIA tool. But when she saw that a BC software wasn’t in the cards, she created her own! We’re speaking with Michelle Marx, who is the Resilience and Business Continuity Manager at Transport for London.

Michelle’s recently unveiled her latest version of her homegrown BIA tool, which is powered by Microsoft’s Power Apps - an off-the-shelf tool many companies use to create homegrown applications for their teams. We get to understand her development process and see if this is something others may wish to explore further for their own programs.

Guest Bio:

Michelle is an experienced resilience professional who specializes in business continuity, major incident management, policy development, and strategy. She is currently the Resilience and Business Continuity Lead at Transport for London and has worked in the NHS, London Olympic Games Organization Committee (LOCOG) and in flood consultancy. She has an undergraduate degree in Emergency and Disaster Management from Coventry University and is also undertaking a Masters part time in Security and Resilience at Imperial College London.

Links:

M Marx Linkedin Profile

Business Impact Analysis Walk-through of a Microsoft 365 Based System (Youtube)

Scorecard Example (Linkedin Article)

How We Did It - Creating a Business Impact Analysis System on SharePoint (Linkedin Article)