Three Takeaways from RIMS 2018
The annual RIMS conference is always one of the best places to get a pulse on what is most important to risk management professionals, and this year’s event was no different. Here is a look [...]
How Mature is Your Vendor Risk Management Program?
Organizations spend a large amount on human and financial resources in completing IT security, compliance and other important risk reviews of their vendors. Most organizations have created a vendor risk management program to complete [...]
New Year’s Resolutions For Risk, Insurance and Claims Professionals
The new year is an opportunity to find the energy and inspiration not only to tackle our personal goals, but to also tackle professional and organizational goals—particularly those related to the risk, insurance and [...]
The ROI of Vendor Risk Management
Stanley Steemer's Michelle Middendorf discusses the return on investment in vendor risk management software. When Stanley Steemer set out to automate the more basic process of managing certificates of insurance for our 200 franchisees [...]
Pressure for Vendor Consolidation Increases: Don’t Lose Out on Services or Technology You Need
Vendor Consolidation As the name implies, vendor consolidation the act of consolidating, or reducing the number of vendors a company is spending money on, on a monthly or annual basis. Organizations are overwhelmed by [...]
The ROI of Integrated Risk Management
When Stanley Steemer set out to automate the more basic process of managing certificates of insurance for our approximately 200 franchisees and their vendors (read “Manage Certificates of Insurance so They Don’t Manage You,” for [...]
Manage Your Reputation, While Still Managing Vendors From Around the World
Recent judgement in Conflict Minerals Rule litigation elicits conversation about the importance of compliance versus proactive reputation management when it comes to vendor management around the globe. To be, or not to be compliant, that [...]
8 Tips for Successfully Managing Vendors
How To Successfully Manage Vendors Intro: Parts of this piece are from a three-part series by guest blogger Michelle Middendorf, workers’ compensation manager at Stanley Steemer. The series focuses on how the company’s streamlined [...]
Manage Certificates of Insurance so They Don’t Manage You
This piece is from a three-part series by guest blogger Michelle Middendorf, workers' compensation manager at Stanley Steemer. The series focuses on how the company’s streamlined process for managing certificates of insurance evolved into addressing even [...]