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The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA): What risk and compliance managers need to know. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) will go into effect on January 1, 2020 – and it’s expected to [...]
Is an Investment in Integrated Risk Management Technology Worth It?
Risk and compliance professionals instinctively know that technology can improve efficiency and provide more timely and accurate data for insightful decision-making – but hard data on the expected return on investment has historically been [...]
Is Your ERM Program Truly Enterprise-wide? If Not, You Aren’t Alone
Many organizations’ enterprise risk management capabilities aren’t as integrated as they need to be, leaving them vulnerable to legal, financial, regulatory, and reputational risks, according to a new governance, risk, and compliance benchmark report, [...]
8 Reasons Why You Should Ditch Your Legacy Risk Software
Your risk software was probably great when it was launched all those years ago. Spectacular even. But how’s it working for you lately? The world of risk management is changing fast. What worked [...]
4 Steps to Supercharge Your Risk Management Processes Today
You may think a Risk Management Information System (RMIS) will solve all of your broken risk management processes. But I’m going to let you in on a little secret…it won’t. The only way [...]
11 Questions to Help You Decide If a RMIS is Worth the Investment
A Risk Management Information System (RMIS) is a significant investment. Like other functional technologies, for example: CRM, supply chain or HR benefits systems, there is a logical point in a risk management function’s [...]
Riskonnect Customers Tell About Their Experiences
A roundup of customer views
IASIS Healthcare
Healthcare
Savage Services
Transportation
Southwest Airlines
Transportation
Southwest Airlines
Transportation
Vulcan Materials Company
Construction
CornerStone Staffing Solutions
Recruiting
Southwest Airlines
Transportation
Kaiser Permanente
Healthcare
Kaiser Permanente
Healthcare
Snap-on Tools
Manufacturing
Crown Holdings, Inc.
Crown Holdings, Inc. is the leader in metal packaging technology. Learn how Sandra M. DiRenzo, director of risk management, and her team use technology to simplify their job of managing risk and claims. [...]
Successfully Implementing a New System Within Your Organization
According to IAG Consulting, only 32% of all IT projects are completed successfully. This means that 2/3 of all technology projects fail!! Here are a few reasons why system implementations can get derailed by [...]
Why Managing Risk with Spreadsheets is Risky
The cost of spreadsheet errors ranges from embarrassing to catastrophic – from money lost to bruised reputations. Major financial services companies to top tier universities have suffered public damage because of spreadsheet errors. Something [...]
Establishing Healthcare Risk Analytics
Data can be daunting especially for risk managers and patient safety professionals who deal with vast amounts of data from many different systems. Add to that the complexities of consolidating data and then transforming [...]
Purchasing a RMIS? 4 Key Topics to Cover During Your Demo
Has your organization made the decision to purchase a Risk Management Information System (RMIS)? If so, you are probably in the process of narrowing down potential vendors. An important step in this process is [...]
Considerations for Your Claims Administration Software
You’ve made the decision to self-administer some or all of your insurance claims and now you need to decide on which claims administration software best meets your needs. But where do you start? [...]
5 Reasons Why 82% of Risk Managers Use a RMIS
Risk management exists to identify, mitigate and manage events that can threaten the operational viability of an organization. If Risk Managers do not have line of sight to their risks, they cannot manage them [...]
Claims Self-Administration: To Be Or Not To Be?
The decision to self-administer claims should not be made lightly nor quickly by any organization. Claims self-administration requires taking full control of the claims handling function in-house versus leveraging the stability and expertise of [...]
5 Best Software Tools for Managing Risk
Too often companies get stuck “making do” with spreadsheets and other outdated tools because, well, that’s the way it’s always been done. Having the right tool makes any job easier, and managing risk is [...]
The Key to Unlocking Strategic Intelligence in Your Risk Data
Traditional risk management reporting is a cumbersome, time-consuming process. Numbers are entered into a spreadsheet, those spreadsheets are combined with others from different sources, and – eventually – a report gets generated. Corresponding [...]
5 Ways a RMIS Can Help You Proactively Manage Your Insurance Program
Many Risk Managers regularly rely on their brokers or even their carriers to answer questions about their insurance program such as, “Do I have enough coverage for this new claim that came in?” or [...]
Why Insurance Data Governance Should Be Your Priority
The insurance industry uses data analytics to support its critical business decisions –i.e. whether to provide an organization coverage, what types of coverage to underwrite, and what level of premiums to set. All [...]
How to Knock Your Claims Software Implementation Out of the Park
Your claims administration software contract has been finalized and signed. Now what? How do you go from looking at claims administration software vendors for the past six months to actually using claims administration software [...]
Harnessing Risk Management
Download a copy of our whitepaper: Harnessing Risk Management. An exploration of the latest thinking around business risk, addressing specific issues faced by financial services firms, such as the high degree of regulatory [...]
Forrester: The Total Economic Impact™ of Riskonnect
Is an investment in risk management technology worth it? Risk and compliance professionals instinctively know that technology can improve efficiency and give them more timely and accurate decision insights – but hard data on [...]
6 Tips for Performing a Successful Root Cause Analysis
Root Cause Analysis (RCA) gets to the bottom of an issue so that action can be taken to fix it permanently. By systematically peeling away layers of causes and effects, RCA identifies breakdowns in [...]
How to Apply Lean Principles to Root Out Waste in Your Claims Process
Incorrectly coded claims, paper forms, missing claim information, and physically walking files over to another department all add time and effort to the claims process. What’s not added is value. A few seconds here, [...]
Drive Your Costs Down By Collecting Incidents With Your RMIS
Risk Management Information Systems (RMIS) were initially developed as a way for organizations to consolidate data from multiple sources into one platform. This meant your incidents and claims were reported directly to your carrier [...]
3 Easy Steps to Improve Incident Reporting
The health care industry has come a long way from the days when incident reports were not routinely filed. Due to the emergence of intuitive and accessible technology, this is a thing of the [...]
The Case for Integrating Safety and Risk
Risk management is the star of the show at many organizations. Safety management, meanwhile, is often treated more like the poor stepchild, begging for attention and resources. While this doesn’t necessarily mean that safety [...]
The Common Sense ROI Approach
“We need to do an ROI analysis.” I have either heard or said that phrase thousands of times throughout my career. I have performed hundreds of them — some extremely complex, some not as [...]
3 Keys to RMIS Implementation Success
A Risk Management Information System (RMIS) is a big investment of time, effort, and money. When your new system finally goes live — whether in its entirety or just a new piece of functionality [...]
How to Amp up the Power of Your RMIS
A RMIS can help management make accurate, insightful decisions about risk and predict future financial obligations. But the software itself can only go so far. Having the right data, people, and processes in place [...]
4 Easy Steps to Improve System Performance
At the Marsh ClearSight Help Desk, we are always looking for new ways to help our clients do their job more efficiently and effectively. Here are a few quick and easy steps you can take [...]
Claims Administration Software: 9 Ways It Can Help Your Organization
Modern claims administration software is designed to move every claim through the system with maximum efficiency to resolve even the most complex claims quickly, easily, consistently, and fairly. The latest software platforms support the [...]
RMIS + You = The Perfect Match
If you’re like most in risk management, you probably spend hours requesting, consolidating, and analyzing data from multiple sources in hopes of spotting a variance in exposure data or an underlying trend hidden [...]
The Risk Manager’s Worst Enemy
Collecting values sounds so simple: Send spreadsheets to those in the field to complete, copy and paste the responses together in a spreadsheet, and submit the results for renewal. What could be easier? In [...]
The 3 Things Holding Your Data Back
Driving Risk Management objectives requires a clear line of sight across your entire risk ecosystem. And the more risk you have, the more critical it is to get the information you need when you [...]
Exposing Hidden Risk Costs
Time is money. Every time information is delayed by data friction, there is a cost. Data friction drains productivity, is the enemy of efficiency, and can leave you reacting to something not anticipated because you didn’t [...]
Values Collection: How to Turn Cringe-Worthy Pain into Plenty of Gain
If the mere thought of collecting values is enough to send shivers down your spine, you aren’t alone. The values collection process is notorious for inspiring dread among risk managers everywhere. And that’s no [...]
Top 10 Benefits of a Healthcare RMIS
Healthcare RMIS software brings all patient-related data into one place, allowing for faster, easier, deeper analysis. It breaks down silos and establishes a common language for achieving a safer environment. Having all data housed [...]
4 Reasons Why a RMIS Will Make Life Easier
Are you still spending hours trying to consolidate your renewal data into spreadsheets and manually extract data from numerous sources to get meaningful reports – all the while hoping that the information is [...]
5 Easy Steps on How to Change the Future
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) can help you change the future. FMEA pinpoints where and how a process might fail and the relative impact of the failure. Instead of analyzing why an accident [...]
Root Cause Analysis Helps Build Safety Culture
Problem: One of the country’s largest food distributors was experiencing an upward trend in the frequency and severity of claims. To make matters worse, safety measures such as Accidents per Million Miles (AMM) and Recordable [...]
Technology Fuels Easier, Faster Renewals – and So Much More
Problem: Collecting current loss exposure information prior to an insurance renewal was a painful, time-consuming process for a global high-tech manufacturing company. Historically, risk managers used spreadsheets to gather and disseminate important exposure data – [...]
Boosting Safety through Accountability
Problem: Maintaining impeccably high safety standards was a challenge for a large manufacturer and retailer of toys, clothing, and other merchandise. The company operates hundreds of stores that were built at different times, have different [...]
One Hospital Aims to Stop Preventable Harm with Better Incident Reporting
Problem: One of the country’s largest and most well-respected hospitals prides itself on quality of care and patient safety. The hospital challenged employees to think about patient and nonpatient care in new ways to ensure [...]
Trading Spreadsheets for Savings on Claims
Problem: A private company that provides health services to residential institutions around the country used a spreadsheet and a TPA to handle all of its professional liability claims. Consequently, it had no statistics on [...]
Analytics Predict Better Workers’ Comp Results
Problem: A large multinational company had a pressing need to get injured workers back on the job – and drive down its workers’ compensation costs. The company had plenty of data, but no good [...]
Effective Loss Prevention Comes with Better Understanding of Risks
Problem: A large, urban school district needed a system to capture, monitor, and report on a wide variety of risk-related incidents and costs to ensure the safety of both staff and students. The district was [...]
Data and Analytics Improve Safety for Patients and Employees
Problem: Patient and employee safety are of paramount importance to a prominent medical center. The organization, however, was at a disadvantage because it did not have the ability to understand what was causing medical errors [...]
Compliance Week Survey Shows Gaps in Integrated Risk Management
Many organizations’ enterprise risk management capabilities aren’t as integrated as they need to be, leaving them vulnerable to legal, financial, regulatory, and reputational risks. This is just one of many key findings in a [...]
This Just In – Gartner Releases Its 2019 Magic Quadrant for Integrated Risk Management
Gartner’s 2019 Magic Quadrant for Integrated Risk Management is now available. We are pleased to announce that, for the second consecutive year, Riskonnect was recognized as a Visionary. “We believe our positioning by Gartner [...]
Riskonnect Speeds Healthcare and Health and Safety Governance with Major Platform Updates
Riskonnect 2019.2 introduces enhanced safety audit feature and new capabilities for non-clinical rounding and long-term care event reporting ATLANTA – July 31, 2019 -- Riskonnect, the leading integrated risk management software solution provider, today [...]
5 Steps to Unlock the Flow of Information
Streamlining your job starts with understanding where things are breaking down. People, technology – even the data itself – can inhibit your ability to get the information you need to manage risk effectively. Here [...]
Risk Management is Stuck in the 20th Century. Here’s How ERM Can Change That.
Is it possible to manage risks of the third decade of the twenty-first century using tools and techniques from the last millennium? Well, are your risks the same? Not so long ago, risks could [...]
Creativity knows no bounds when it comes to mitigating risk
When it comes to risk, every potential scenario is on the table. Often, the most impactful situations are born from risks that were so far-fetched not even the most strategic and vigilant risk managers [...]
Riskonnect Named a Visionary for Second Consecutive Year in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Integrated Risk Management
Leading Integrated Risk Management Solution Provider Recognized for Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute ATLANTA (July 17, 2019) – Riskonnect, the leader in integrated risk management solutions, today announced that Gartner, Inc. has [...]
5 Things to Consider When Buying A RMIS
Technology, service and features are important things to consider when purchasing a RMIS (Risk Management Information System); however, that is just the start. Understanding your needs, knowing what your stakeholders demand, and selecting the [...]
The pressure is rising in hospitals – and so are the risks.
The hospital landscape is an environment ripe for risk. Between an overall increase in chronic diseases and high turnover rates requiring large-scale staff replacements every five years, hospitals are facing a multitude of challenges. [...]
4 Things You Should Know About Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
To proactively manage risk, you have to be able to anticipate where issues may occur—and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis could be just the ticket. While the name may sound intimidating, FMEA is simply [...]
If an asteroid comes for your business, will you survive?
NASA recently performed a worst-case scenario simulation demonstrating what would happen if a giant asteroid crashed into NYC. Although highly unlikely, NASA wanted the issue to be exposed and planned for, given natural disasters [...]
Its Hurricane Season – and Risk Is In The Forecast
When low pressure weather systems draw upon warm water and atmospheric moisture, it’s a recipe for tropical disaster: a powerful and very damaging hurricane. The impact of such natural events certainly reaches businesses on [...]
Healthcare Facilities Look to Step Up Patient Safety Efforts
Patient safety remains a top concern of healthcare organizations, according to the 2019 Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare Industry Outlook Survey. While 40% of the 228 respondents said their organization was already very [...]
Tackle the Risks of the Digital Revolution with an Integrated Risk Management Approach
Integrated risk management is transforming the way in which risk managers approach and manage technology-related risks and the interconnected nature of 21st century threats, writes Quin Rodriguez, vice-president, strategy & innovation at Riskonnect. The [...]
Building Predictive Analytics into your ERM Framework
How bringing together siloed data points from internal and external stakeholders can optimise risk management and drive accurate decision-making, strategically, operationally, and situationally, writes Jim Wetekamp, chief executive at Riskonnect. Globalisation, technological advances, and [...]
Riskonnect ClearSight Release Includes New Workers’ Comp Severity Prediction Capabilities
Riskonect ClearSight Spring 2019 Release includes four new capabilities, including the ability to accurately identify potentially adverse workers’ comp claims early in the lifecycle so action can be taken to improve outcomes all the [...]
Riskonnect Delivers Major Platform Enhancements Under New FoundationONE Integration Commitment
Riskonnect ClearSight 19.0 introduces new GRC and predictive modeling capabilities, delivering more value for customers in their integrated risk management journeys Riskonnect, the leader in integrated risk management solutions, today announces Riskonnect ClearSight 19.0, [...]
Riskonnect Announces FoundationONE Platform Integration
Riskonnect is proud to announce FoundationONE, a new platform integration strategy that consolidates all areas of risk – strategic, compliance, operational, financial, security, reputational, and health & safety – into one view to give [...]
Risk management in the 2020s: Combatting threats inherent in digital disruption
New tools and tech – artificial intelligence, automation, social platforms and more – promise to add more convenience to daily tasks, or make our businesses run faster and smarter than ever before. Yet the [...]
IRM Lessons from Murphy’s Law
According to Murphy’s Law, if something can go wrong, it will. The saying was birthed at Edwards Air Force Base in 1949 by Captain Edward Murphy, an engineer working to see how much deceleration [...]
Does your organization have a clean bill of (risk) health?
When it comes to managing your health, it’s wise to be proactive and get routine testing, vaccinations and physicals done to take care of issues before they turn into bigger health problems down the [...]
Nine Tips to Improve Data Quality
What are your company’s most important assets? Real estate/locations, equipment, inventory, employees and intellectual property are undoubtedly at the top of your list. What often gets overlooked, however, is one of the most valuable [...]
How Investor Confidence can be Pinned to Successful Risk Management
The Pinterest IPO has been one of the most promising in recent memory, but questions remain around whether the online scrapbook company will generate the growth needed to meet high expectations of investors. Despite [...]
Could Your Fleet Be Safer?
Do you know how many of your fleet accidents are caused by a fatigued driver? Do you know how many collisions happened in a particular intersection? Or how many workers’ compensation claims are associated [...]
How to Make Values Collection Fast, Easy, and (Dare We Say!) Enjoyable
Sure, spreadsheets can be painful and time-consuming to use for values collection, but they’ve worked fine so far, right? Well, have they? If you’re using spreadsheets, it might take two to three months to [...]
Avoiding worst-case scenarios: Why our risk mindset needs to change
In business, the “it won’t happen to me” mindset isn’t just blind optimism -- it’s an inherently flawed and frankly irresponsible approach to risk management. The reality is risk is everywhere – the [...]
Top 10 Organisational Challenges of Implementing a GRC Solution
Many organisations are adopting governance, risk and compliance (GRC) technology to help manage their activities in these areas. This shift continues to be driven by an ever-changing regulatory landscape and an increasingly connected world. [...]
New Report Rates Riskonnect as a Leading Comprehensive RMIS Solution
Riskonnect is one of the most comprehensive Risk Management Information System solutions, according to the independent 2019 RMIS Report. Authored by respected industry experts David Tweedy and Patrick O’Neill, the report is designed to [...]
Update: Riskonnect Integrated Risk Management Platform
Our Platform Promise: Riskonnect will continue to support and enhance the systems currently in use, while educating you on the full breadth of our capabilities. There will be no mandate to migrate -- and [...]
Top 5 Reasons to Come to RIMS 2019
RIMS is the largest risk event of 2019. This year’s agenda includes a record number of sessions on a wide range of risk-related topics, plus inspirational speakers like legendary sports icon, Billie Jean King. [...]
Integrating Risk, Quality, and Safety: A Healthcare RMIS Checklist
Are you ready to integrate risk, quality, and safety through technology? Here’s a checklist of things to consider when you’re buying a healthcare RMIS. One system. Have one system for safety, quality, and risk information, [...]
What Your Claims Data Can Tell You
Claims generate an abundance of data. But numbers alone are just, well, numbers. You have to figure out what it means – and put it to good use. Artificial intelligence combined with big data [...]
How to Cultivate an Enterprise Risk Culture
Success these days depends on your ability to immediately grasp all of your current risks, anticipate what’s around the corner, and understand what it means for the organization. And there’s no room for error. [...]
How to Pitch a Healthcare RMIS to Top Administrators
Just imagine how much more effective you would be if risk, quality, and safety all worked together to improve patient care and minimize risk. No more duplication of effort. No more tunnel vision. No [...]
8 Tips for a Smooth Risk Software Implementation
Your company has a new risk software solution in the works, and you have been designated as the point person for implementation. That’s exciting news – at least until the reality of what’s at [...]
The Time is Right for Integrated Risk Management
Integrated Risk Management (IRM) simplifies, automates, and consolidates strategic and operational risk across the organization, according to Gartner’s Magic Quadrant. At Riskonnect, we have embraced the concept of Integrated Risk Management. We are [...]
Meet the New Riskonnect Customer Success Team!
Customer success comes first here at Riskonnect. To that end, we are excited to introduce you to our newly created Customer Success team. Our Customer Success team includes more than 300 professionals, all [...]
How to Use Integrated Risk Technology for ERM
Risk managers know ERM is important, but it often gets pushed to the back burner because, well, it isn’t exactly easy to quantify the potential impact of intangibles like weather events, cyberattacks, or [...]
Dirty Mattresses Aren’t a Problem for Just Hotels. Why Hospitals Should Change Their Patient-Safety Software Along With Their Bedding
Cringeworthy exposés have shined a (black) light on bedbugs and other mattress-cleanliness problems in the hotel industry. Turns out hospitals have their own dirty little secret – contaminated bedding. More than just an [...]
New Year, New Riskonnect!
2018 was an amazing year! A lot of great things happened in 2018, thanks to our customers, colleagues, and partners! The Start of a New Riskonnect! We joined forces with ClearSight to bring [...]
How to Pitch a RMIS to Top Execs
An updated RMIS is not just a nice to have any more – it’s a need to have if you want to manage risk effectively. You know that, your team knows that, but [...]
Riskonnect Taps Industry Veteran as Chief Technology Officer
Riskonnect, the leader in integrated risk management solutions, today announced Madhu Kota has joined the company as its chief technology officer. Kota brings more than 25 years of technology experience in a variety [...]
Things are changing… for the Better!
It's not uncommon when vendors try to instill fear, uncertainty, and doubt when they realize the value two RMIS powerhouses like Riskonnect and ClearSight can bring, not only to the market, but possibly to [...]
How to Tell Your Claims Story to the C-Suite
Claims are a big-ticket item that often ends up in the crosshairs when the C-suite goes looking for a place to cut costs. But simply slashing costs can backfire if customer service suffers. [...]
Is Your System Ready For An ERM System?
Since 2014, The American Society of Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM) has rightly been focused on Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) as a necessary evolution for risk management in healthcare and a logical expansion of the [...]
What’s the [Vendor] Risk?
Vendors are critical to the success of most organizations – but they also pose considerable risk. The trick is to make sure your vendors have what they need to perform well without compromising your [...]
How to Turn RMIS Naysayers into RMIS Cheerleaders
Decisions about buying something as big as a RMIS usually involve a lot of people, with a lot of opinions. Inevitably, there will be at least one skeptic in the bunch. But instead of [...]
Do You Need A RMIS?
The pressure is on to manage evolving risk, anticipate what’s around the corner, and analyze the big-picture impact – all in less time with fewer resources. A new-generation Risk Management Information System could be [...]
10 Steps to Buying a RMIS
Today’s RMIS offers an array of sophisticated applications to help you manage every aspect of risk. From claims administration to cost allocations, you can select the options that fit your needs today and add [...]
Why Vendors Need to Be Part of Your Claims Team – For Real
The claims vendor list is long – attorneys, medical professionals, auto-repair shops, contractors, medical case managers, and the all-important TPA. Not only are you spending good money for their services, these vendors represent your [...]
Why ERM Should Be on Your Radar
Enterprise Risk Management – or ERM – is a term that’s been around for years to describe the process of collectively managing all of an organization’s risks and opportunities. But so far, ERM has [...]
If I Only Had More Time! How to Make Your Values Collection Wishes Come True
Ever wish you had a few more hours in your day? Just think … you might even be able to get to the good stuff on your to-do list – like strategizing ways to [...]
How a RMIS Can Boost Your Risk Maturity
Organizations that manage risks at a strategic level consistently outperform their peers at a financial level. At these “risk mature” companies, risk management is integrated into their culture, allowing them to take advantage of [...]
How to Protect Yourself from Third-Party Mayhem
Organizations are relying on third-party suppliers more than ever to achieve their business goals. As integral business partners, these vendors represent your company – and your reputation, your brand, and your bottom line are [...]
Riskonnect ClearSight New Release Adds 3 New Apps and Many Enhancements
Riskonnect ClearSight Fall 2018 software release includes three new applications – Allocations, Asset Manager, and Audit – as well as numerous enhancements to functionality. Riskonnect’s Allocations app calculates shared insurance costs easily and fairly [...]
Nine Signs It’s Time to Reevaluate Your RMIS
Today’s RMIS offers analytics and insight at a level that was once unimaginable – and new ground continues to be broken. If you’re still using aging legacy technology, you might not realize what [...]
How Technology Can Elevate the Safety Culture in Healthcare
Nurses, doctors, and other healthcare workers are the eyes and ears of your safety program. Outdated technology, however, can sabotage even the best of intentions. How many incidents go unreported if, for instance, [...]
Rev Up Your Claims Dashboard and Steer toward Success
Dashboards might be the best-kept secret in managing claims effectively. A well-executed dashboard shows you everything you need to assess the health of your claims operation at a glance. You can find answers [...]
How to Build a Winning RMIS Strategy and Why You Need It
It’s no secret that any RMIS worth its salt will include plenty of useful applications to make life easier. Taking a step back and crafting a well-thought-out strategy, however, will transform your RMIS [...]
Should Healthcare Incidents Be Reported Anonymously? Pros and Cons
Not so long ago, anonymous incident reporting was considered to be the best option for healthcare organizations. The idea was that more incidents would be recorded if the reporter wasn’t afraid of retribution. [...]
Are You Ready to Move from Fear-Free to Blame-Free Healthcare Incident Reporting?
It’s no secret that healthcare incident reporting is a great means of improving patient safety. And the more incident reports, the better. After all, you can only learn from the mistakes that you [...]
3 Simple Tips for a Smoother RMIS Implementation
Selecting a new risk management information system (RMIS) provider can be a difficult decision to make, and then completing the contractual agreement can be an arduous process. Many times clients make the decision [...]
Top 10 Organizational Challenges of Implementing a GRC Solution
Many organizations are adopting governance, risk and compliance (GRC) technology to help manage their activities in these three areas. This shift continues to be driven by an ever-changing regulatory landscape and an increasingly [...]
Postcard From The End: Lessons from ASHRM 2018
With the curtain drawn on the 2018 American Society for Healthcare Risk Management Annual Conference, what did we learn? Okay, what did I learn. I won’t pretend to speak for every attendee and [...]
7 Steps to Successful Claims Management
Maybe you’ve updated your claims software, and streamlined key processes to be more productive, cut costs, and improve service. Great! Check that off your list, right? Well … not so fast. Successful claims [...]
How Can Software Integrate Risk, Quality, and Safety in Healthcare?
The healthcare industry continues to strive for safer care and better outcomes – but simply trying harder is not going to appreciably move the dial. You have to have the systems in place [...]
Make Renewals Powerful, Not Painful
While cybersecurity is already a major concern for businesses of all shapes and sizes, it can become even more problematic if it’s solved for in isolation, and not considered within the context of [...]
8 Tips to Successfully Managing Vendors
Michelle Middendorf, workers’ compensation manager at Stanley Steemer, shares vendor risk management best practices and tips for success. If you rely heavily on third party vendors, you know the importance of making sure [...]
Don’t Judge a Hospital by its Size, Judge it by the Character of its Risk Management
Cullman Regional Medical Center chose Riskonnect to support its vision for the future and its journey to become a high reliability organization (HRO). If you stereotype Cullman, Alabama (pop. 15,385) as just another [...]
Why ERM Initiatives Fail … And How To Avoid It
Even though more organizations and industries have gradually been adopting enterprise risk management (ERM) programs since the height of the financial crisis in 2009, many businesses are still hesitant to embrace full fledged [...]
Riskonnect Completes Acquisition of Marsh ClearSight
Deal strengthens Riskonnect’s position as a global leader in integrated risk management solutions. Riskonnect, the leader in integrated risk management solutions, today announced the completion of its acquisition of Marsh ClearSight LLC. The closing [...]
Reimagining Risk: How Today’s Tech Leaders are Integrating Risk Management
Roger Dunkin, Riskonnect co-founder and VP of Product, discusses how today's tech leaders are integrating risk management in a TER Talks Podcast.
Compliance vs. Risk Management: What’s the Big Difference?
Distinguishing risk management from compliance may not seem like a critical line item on your business agenda, but doing so can make all the difference between merely avoiding risk and actually creating tangible [...]
Riskonnect Announces New User Experience Interface with Newest Product Release
Riskonnect increases customer productivity, accelerates adoption with new user interface. Riskonnect, recognized by Forrester as a Leader in Governance, Risk, And Compliance Platforms and by Gartner as a Visionary in Integrated Risk Management, today [...]
The Need for an Expanded Role of Risk Management in Healthcare
The role of risk management in healthcare has come a long way over the years. But as risks to the healthcare industry multiply—both in number and costs—risk management and risk managers need to [...]
It’s All About the Connections: Data as the Driver for Resilience, Control & Visibility
Last week I shared with you that our “top secret strategy” for Riskonnect’s acquisition of Marsh ClearSight focuses entirely on customer success. To drive this, we need to put our customers in a [...]
Our Top Secret Strategy. Hint: Customers Win Big.
We are very excited about our pending acquisition of Marsh ClearSight. Our combined capabilities will drive a fundamental shift in the risk management solution space that will greatly benefit customers. We will have: [...]
Survey: Benchmarking Anti-Bribery and Corruption In Business Today
In today’s media-driven, socially connected world, it’s difficult for companies to hide any mistakes at all—let alone major foibles like instances of bribery and corruption. Yet, such instances are all too common—and damaging—for [...]
Riskonnect Shortlisted as Finalists at CIR Risk Management Awards
Riskonnect has been shortlisted for the category of Best Use of Technology in Risk Management – Partnership at the CIR Risk Management Awards. This nomination recognises the work that we have done with Vodafone [...]
The Most Surprising Thing I Heard from Customers
Riskonnect has been touting the advantages of the pending acquisition of Marsh ClearSight—like more solution choices, deeper industry expertise, and an expanded team of knowledgeable resources. But what do customers really think? [...]
Considering a board-level risk committee? Consider this, first.
Yes. No. Maybe so. Is your organization struggling to determine whether it should establish a board-level risk committee? If so, you’re not alone. In fact, unless your organization is subject to a regulatory [...]
GRC or IRM: Either way, outdated evaluation processes put your organization at risk.
The pace of the Integrated Risk Management (IRM) evolution continues to accelerate at break-neck speed. According to Gartner Research Director John Wheeler, “The IRM market is projected to grow at a 13.4% compound [...]
Kevin Crow to Lead Riskonnect’s Human Resources Strategy
Riskonnect, the leader in integrated risk management solutions, today announced Kevin Crow has joined the company as its chief human resources officer. Crow brings more than 20 years of human resources leadership experience, most [...]
Riskonnect and Marsh ClearSight: No switch. Only upside.
As is often the case following the news of an acquisition, there are rumblings and rumors about what Riskonnect’s pending acquisition of Marsh ClearSight will mean for customers of both companies. We would [...]
Using the Unified Compliance Framework and Integrated Risk Management to Combat Cyber Security Issues
Cyber security is weighing on businesses today. Not only are cyber security issues becoming more frequent and severe, they’re becoming increasingly complex—making it hard to stop such instances from occurring, especially if organizations [...]
Riskonnect Positioned as a Visionary in Gartner Magic Quadrant For Integrated Risk Management
Riskonnect, a global pure SaaS provider of Integrated Risk Management technology solutions, today announced that Gartner, Inc. has positioned Riskonnect as a Visionary in its 2018 Magic Quadrant for Integrated Risk Management*. This is [...]
Riskonnect to Acquire Marsh ClearSight
Riskonnect, the leader in integrated risk management solutions, today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Marsh ClearSight LLC, a global leader in risk, safety, and claims software and services and a [...]
Are Your Vendors Putting Your Business at Risk?
Few businesses can operate without assistance from third-party technology vendors. And that dependence continues to grow as organizations struggle with inefficient internal processes and the challenges of keeping up with technology. In fact, [...]
How to Stop Cyber Risks from Interfering with Patient Safety
Healthcare organizations face all the same challenges as other industries when it comes to the damages incurred from cyber attacks. However, they also face the especially dangerous problem of hackers potentially physically harming [...]
Riskonnect Names Andrea Brody as Chief Marketing Officer
Riskonnect, the leader in integrated risk management solutions, today announced Andrea Brody has joined the company as its chief marketing officer. Brody brings more than 25 years of product and marketing leadership experience, [...]
Why Cybersecurity is Not THE Problem
While cybersecurity is already a major concern for businesses of all shapes and sizes, it can become even more problematic if it’s solved for in isolation, and not considered within the context of [...]
Three Major Risks Affecting Healthcare
From the onset, hospitals and healthcare organizations have been risky environments—home to life and death situations on a daily basis, even if you discount the growing number of risks we face in our [...]
Three indicators you should improve your governance policy management processes
Institutional policies and processes are a part of doing business … and a critical component of governance risk and compliance (GRC). That being said, it’s not always easy to manage policies. Yet, doing it [...]
Riskonnect Soars in 2018 with Over 100 New and Expanded Client Relationships and Multiple Industry Analyst Recognitions
Riskonnect, a leading provider of cloud-based Integrated Risk Management technology solutions, today announced a record start to the year, driven by new customers, deeper relationships with existing customers and accelerated realization of its [...]
Riskonnect Receives 2018 Stevie® Award From the American Business Awards®
Riskonnect was named the winner of a Bronze Stevie® Award in the Best New Product or Service of the Year category for Software – Governance, Risk & Compliance Solution in The 16th Annual American Business [...]
Riskonnect Recognized as One of the Fastest Growing Companies in Atlanta
For the fifth year, Riskonnect was recognized by the Atlanta Business Chronicle as one of the 100 fastest growing private companies in the Atlanta metropolitan area. The company was honored at the 23rd annual [...]
Internal Auditors: Making the shift from checking boxes to innovating
Internal audit functions are under increasing pressure to prove their relevance—a feat which is nearly impossible without the right integrated risk technology in place. Exceeding great expectations Internal audit departments have traditionally been viewed [...]
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 [...]
Riskonnect Unveils New User Experience, Next Great Innovation in Risk Management Technology
Riskonnect, unique in offering its integrated approach to global safety, risk and compliance management solutions on the world’s leading cloud platform, is unveiling its new user experience at RIMS 2018. Inspired by feedback from [...]
Riskonnect Featured in Career Advancement Article
Jay Lechtman, Riskonnect's senior director of healthcare market strategy and development, was quoted in a recent publication by Relias. Lechtman offered insights on opportunities for career advancement in healthcare risk management by getting into [...]
Riskonnect Names New CEO
Industry veteran Jim Wetekamp to lead company’s ongoing transformation effort Riskonnect, the leader in integrated risk management solutions, today announced the hiring of Jim Wetekamp as its new CEO. Wetekamp has more than 20 [...]
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 [...]
Top Risk Management Blogs to Follow in 2018
We've updated our popular Top Risk Management Blogs to Follow in 2017 post for 2018! The way we consume information in the digital age continues to evolve, but blogs remain constant as a valuable [...]
GRC Software: Navigate RFP and Implementation Pitfalls
Selecting software to get in front of GRC—or any other business problem—can be overwhelming. Read on, or tune in to our webinar with Michael Rasmussen, GRC economist and OCEG [...]
How To Take On the Top 10 Patient Safety Issues of 2018
In honor of this being Patient Safety Awareness Week, this week, we thought it timely to discuss some of the top 10 patient safety issues for 2018 and how the right risk management [...]
Healthcare Organizations: How To Protect Against Electronic Privacy Breaches
No business is immune to data breaches...and that includes the healthcare industry, which has seen an 18 percent increase in breaches since 2015, when the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office [...]
Bridge the Talent Gap with Risk Management Technology
Luring young professionals into insurance careers requires more than deploying recruitment tactics like social media blitzes and career fairs. It requires creating roles that have meaning to this altruistic [...]
Riskonnect Recognized as a Leader in GRC Platform Vendors by Independent Research Firm
Riskonnect announced today that research and advisory firm Forrester Research, Inc. (NASDAQ: FORR) has named global Integrated Risk Management vendor Riskonnect a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Governance, Risk, And Compliance Platforms, Q1 2018. [...]
ROI vs. ROF: Return on Investment Versus Failure
Companies often struggle to justify investing in a governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) solution. It’s tough getting buy-in from senior executives to automate compliance, security, quality, safety programs, etc. They “know” they need [...]
Riskonnect Featured in Compliance Today
Riskonnect's Jay Lechtman contributed an article to the February 2018 issue of Compliance Today. The article, titled Maintaining HIPAA compliance as OCR modernizes: Two questions to ask, discusses how updates to the Breach Reporting Tool are an [...]
Focal Point and Riskonnect Announce Integrated Risk Management Partnership
Focal Point Data Risk, LLC (Focal Point) and Riskonnect Inc. (Riskonnect), two leaders in the competitive Integrated Risk Management (IRM) space, today announced a strategic partnership that aligns Riskonnect’s best-in-class IRM software solutions with [...]
Riskonnect on FOX Business News
Riskonnect was featured on FOX Business News, explaining the importance of integrated risk management.
When Old Man Winter Strikes, Risk Management Technology Can Help
Winter weather has arrived, dumping measurable amounts of snow across the nation and creating problems for businesses unable to operate at full capacity. This is especially problematic in those parts of the country where [...]
How Spreadsheets Hurt Governance, Risk and Compliance
Table of Contents What Is GRC? GRC Challenges Why Spreadsheets Are Dangerous for GRC Why Be GRC Compliant? The Importance of ISO 3 Reasons Spreadsheets Get In The Way How To Prevent Spreadsheets [...]
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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 [...]
Top Business Risks for 2018
Here comes 2018. And with the new year, comes new risks—along with many of the same old risks, but a new perception of their importance or where they rank on the risk spectrum. [...]
Do Your Employees Know About Your Compliance Management Program? 5 Tips for Raising Awareness
You’ve implemented a regulatory compliance management program. It covers everything from workplace safety rules to cyber security. You’ve spent days, weeks, perhaps even months fine-tuning the pieces. You’ve checked all the boxes. You’ve [...]
Riskonnect Acquires Aruvio, Expands Governance, Risk and Compliance Offering
Riskonnect, the industry leader in Integrated Risk Management (IRM), has entered into an agreement to acquire California-based Aruvio, which provides cloud-based governance, risk and compliance (GRC) solutions. The acquisition will expand Riskonnect’s market-leading [...]
Riskonnect Launches Healthcare Website
Riskonnect, the leading cloud-based safety, risk and compliance management solutions provider, continues to demonstrate its growing continuing commitment to and focus on the healthcare provider market with the launch of healthcare.riskonnect.com. “While healthcare providers [...]
Slips, Trips And Falls…Oh My! Combat Related Injuries.
The prevalence of slips, trips and falls in the workplace is enough to make any risk, safety or claims manager throw up his or her hands in despair. With more than 25,000 such incidents [...]
Top Takeaways from Riskonnect’s 2017 User Conference
Riskonnect conducts an annual educational conference each fall to provide clients and prospects with opportunities to learn, network with peers and explore new ways to use their solutions. It’s more than just a conference, [...]
How To Build An Award-Winning Safety Program
Erickson Living reduces worker injuries and wins award for its safety culture, after using Integrated Risk Management Technology to collaborate across departments. […]
Why Collaborative Analytics Matter
A portion of this blog comes from Riskonnect partner Domo, a software company specializing in real-time business intelligence tools and data visualization. […]
5 Ways Integrated ERM Creates Value for Healthcare Organizations
Without an ERM program in place, it makes it exceptionally difficult for healthcare organizations to to predict the next steps they must take to be competitive and financially viable — especially in today’s uncertain [...]
Is Big Data Paralyzing Your Business? 3 Common Traps to Avoid
This article was originally published on Forbes.com, and was written by Brent Dykes, Director, Data Strategy at DOMO, a Riskonnect partner. With the abundance of data flowing into organizations these days, the next challenge [...]
Combat Cyber Risks (Part 1 of 2): How Risk Management Can Help
The Equifax data breach -- which may have exposed the credit card and social security information of as many as 143 million U.S. customers -- doesn’t just have consumers concerned: Businesses are realizing their [...]
Riskonnect Included in Gartner’s Market Guide, 2017
Listed as a sample vendor for corporate compliance and oversight solutions Riskonnect has been identified as a sample vendor in the August 2017 Gartner Market Guide for Corporate Compliance and Oversight Solutions. According [...]
How To Prevent Worker Injuries In The Wake Of Disaster
Hurricane season has arrived. But in some places, the storms are already gone (at least for now), and recovery from resulting flooding has begun. And just as the wind shifts and storms can change [...]
How To Settle Tropical Storm Harvey Claims Faster, Easier
Risk management technology can help businesses speed up claims process in wake of natural disasters like Hurricane Harvey/Tropical Storm Harvey Hurricane Harvey, now a tropical storm, continues to dump record amounts of rainfall across [...]
Three Tips For Presenting Risk To The Board
Sometimes it's hard to know when to report risks to your board. Major corporations will typically include within their proxy statements promises that senior management will frequently update the board about risks. Some [...]
Be Prepared: Active Hurricane Season Ahead
Forecasters from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are predicting a higher likelihood of an above-normal hurricane season in 2017 and perhaps the most active season since 2010. NOAA forecasters are predicting 14-19 named [...]
Riskonnect Included in Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Risk Management, 2017
Listed as a sample vendor for digital risk management solutions Riskonnect is now included in the July 2017 Gartner Digital Risk Management Hype Cycle, a directory that provides organizations an evaluation tool to [...]
The ROI of Vendor Risk Management
Stanley Steemer's Michelle Middendorf discusses the return on investment in vendor risk management. When Stanley Steemer set out to automate the more basic process of managing certificates of insurance for our 200 franchisees [...]
3 Tips for Preventing Claims Adjuster Stress
Claims adjusters are really the unsung heroes of the insurance industry, but unfortunately are under a tremendous amount of stress and pressure. They often receive little reward and little respect for being on [...]
Riskonnect Helps Companies Meet New OSHA Regulations
Provides solution to meet OSHA’s electronic reporting standards Riskonnect, the leader in integrated risk management solutions, continues to demonstrate why its software is built for the needs of today’s risk managers. Earlier this year, [...]
Be The Hero: Break Down Organizational Silos with Risk Management Technology
Departmental and informational silos are a common threat to risk managers -- limiting your view of risk, and therefore, limiting your ability to calculate, articulate and mitigate the full scope of risks facing your [...]
Is Your SOX System Due for Replacement?
Fifteen years ago, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) became law. Soon after there was a massive scramble by companies who needed a way to comply. This also gave rise to a wave of software implementations that were [...]
SURVEY: ERM Not Keeping Pace with Today’s Risks
Business executives worldwide are saying despite their awareness and even (in some cases) implementation of enterprise risk management (ERM) practices and processes, they are still struggling to keep pace with today’s increasingly complex and [...]
Be the Hero: Successful Risk Management in Five Steps
Everything your organization does involves some level of risk. As such, shouldn’t an organization’s strategy be driven, in part, by risk managers every day -- rather than putting you on the sidelines, and only [...]
Finding Nirvana: Make Managing Insurance Policies Easy
It’s no secret that insurance policy management often involves arduous and time consuming administrative processes that hold risk managers back from being more productive and strategic. Risk management technology can help you streamline those [...]
Do External Audits Cost or Save Your Business Money?
Table of Contents Can Audits Save Your Business? What Is The SOX Act? 3 Challenges of Complying with Sarbanes Oxley Sox Compliance and The Cost of Exemption Technology Solutions and SOX Compliance Auditing [...]
Riskonnect Ranks on Fastest-Growing Companies in Georgia List
Riskonnect ranked number 15 on the Atlanta Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth® (ACG) 2017 Georgia Fast 40 list. This is the second consecutive year Riskonnect, the leading global provider of Integrated Risk [...]
Riskonnect on the Dana Barrett Show
Riskonnect's vice president of strategic marketing, Quin Rodriguez, was a guest on the Dana Barrett Show. The Dana Barrett Show is a live, local radio show focused on what's happening in the business world [...]
How to Manage Incident & Accident Investigations in 4 Easy Steps
While an incident (accident) investigation might seem like a reactive tool -- since an undesired event has to take place, or nearly take place, to spur an investigation -- it’s not necessarily the [...]
Four Ways to Get Injured Employees Back to Work Faster
While return-to-work is a complex and difficult-to-manage process, often fraught with opportunities for error and financial leakage, the benefits of a well-run program are very real -- namely, the dramatic cost reductions that come [...]
How to Manage 3 Major Cyber Security Threats to IT Departments
Cybersecurity is everyone’s job Cyber risks cannot be combatted by the IT department alone, especially if they are put upon with requests outside of cyber security initiatives. Similarly, technology that serves singular purposes [...]
5 Symptoms Your Organization is Isolated and Needs Integrated Risk Management
Integrated risk management entails bringing together all areas of risk effectively and efficiently to reduce costs and enable insights that have previously been unobtainable. If that sounds more like a pipe dream than [...]
Data Storytelling: Separating Fiction from Facts
This blog post was written by Brent Dykes, Director, Data Strategy at DOMO, a Riskonnect partner. The article was originally published on Forbes.com. Data is playing a larger role in day-to-day business conversations [...]
Thoma Bravo Announces Strategic Growth Investment with Acquisition of Riskonnect
Thoma Bravo LLC, a leading technology investment firm, announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Riskonnect, Inc., the leading global provider of Integrated Risk Management technology solutions. The investment recognizes [...]
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 [...]
Three Common Workplace Injuries and How Risk Management Technology Can Help
What Are The 3 Most Common Workplace Injuries? June has arrived! And so has National Safety Month, an initiative on behalf of the National Safety Council to reduce the leading causes of injury [...]
Why Brand and Risk Management Go Hand in Hand
Well-managed risks equal well-managed brands. In fact, integrated risk management and brand management are arguably one and the same. Here’s why: A company’s brand is really the company itself. Therefore, risks that could [...]
Support the Three Victims of Medical Errors
No one wants to minimize the impact of medical errors on patients. But it’s important to understand the resulting impact on involved providers and their organizations. Ignoring these other “victims” of patient safety [...]
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,” [...]
The Key To Enterprise Risk Management: 10 Take-Aways
Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) is top of mind at most organizations as risks become increasingly complex. As such, ERM often takes the spotlight at educational conferences for risk and insurance professionals, including the North [...]
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 is [...]
Why Data Visualization Matters
3 Ways Data Visualization Improves Business Processes Pictures aren’t worth 1,000 words in risk management. Their value is actually exponentially more if they serve to help organizational stakeholders spot trends and make revenue-impacting [...]
Takeaways From the 2017 RIMS Conference
Another RIMS conference has come and gone. And now that the mad dash is over, I’ve been able to reflect on all the great information that my colleagues and I absorbed while in Philadelphia. [...]
Riskonnect and Willis Towers Watson Developing Client Facing Technology Platform to Improve Client Experience
Riskonnect, the leading global provider of Integrated Risk Management Solutions™, has entered into a strategic development agreement with Willis Towers Watson to integrate Risk Management Information System (RMIS) functionality into their broader client facing technology platform [...]
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 [...]
Combat the Costs of Distracted Driving at Your Organization
If you think mobile phone policies for drivers is a topic better suited for parents with teenagers than your organization’s workforce -- whether you have a fleet or not -- you might want to [...]
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 [...]
Riskonnect Introduces Integrated Risk Management Insights: Drive Decision-Making at the Speed of Risk
Riskonnect, the leading global provider of integrated risk management technology solutions, now offers Insights: revolutionary intelligence for risk managers and executive leadership. The new solution will be demonstrated at their booth (#1033) during the [...]
Riskonnect Expands Healthcare Capabilities with Addition of Clinical Safety and Risk Management Expert
Riskonnect Expands Healthcare Capabilities with Addition of Clinical Safety and Risk Management Expert Riskonnect, the global leader in integrated risk management technology, is increasing its capabilities in supporting its expanding healthcare client base [...]
For Healthcare Providers an Ounce of Prevention … is Now Going to be Required by CMS
New Business Continuity Concerns for Healthcare Providers Hospitals are no stranger to the concept of emergency preparedness, but the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has some definite ideas on what is [...]
Riskonnect Featured by Risk & Insurance on Harnessing the Power of Risk Management Data
Riskonnect was recently featured by Risk & Insurance discussing why risk managers should take the lead in implementing an integrated data system for all parts of their organization and how to better harnessing the power [...]
Do You Gamble When it Comes to Compliance?
Chances are you’ve found yourself frustrated trying to keep legal expenses under control. You have a long list of defense firms and some of them seem to rack up T&E billings with impunity. So, [...]
Are you prepared for the GDPR?
Get prepared for the GDPR. If you do business anywhere in the world, there is a good chance your organization processes data about individuals in the context of selling goods or services to [...]
The Updated OSHA Post Accident Drug Testing Rule and Unintended Consequences
OSHA’s final rule on post-accident drug testing requirements -- specifically around employer retaliation and under-reporting of unsafe conditions -- seemed to be an attempt to clarify these often-abused provisions. It seems, however that OSHA [...]
Leading Academic Health System Chooses Riskonnect
The University of Chicago Medicine, one of the nation’s leading academic medical institutions and named a 2016 Top Teaching Hospital for quality, safety and value by The Leapfrog Group, has selected Riskonnect Healthcare to [...]
8 Risk Management Blogs to Follow in 2017
Since you are reading this, you obviously agree that blogs are a great way to enhance your industry knowledge. New ones pop up all the time and sometimes old faithfuls go defunct. So, [...]
Risk Manager Ranked as a Top Job in America – That Shouldn’t be a Surprise
RISK MANAGER #2 In Riskonnect’s 2016 Q3 newsletter, there is an article that begins with this statement: “Thus far, 2016 has been an exciting year because a long predicted but never realized phenomenon is suddenly [...]
The Joy of Changing Lives Through Technology
The Joy of Changing Lives Through Technology One of the most satisfying aspects of working at Riskonnect is the vision shared throughout the organization that we exist to create life change for our clients. [...]
Three Important Takeaways from New Anti-bribery Standard
ISO 37001:2016 was published by the International Standards Organization[1] on October 15th, 2016. This 45 page standard, 22 pages of the actual standard plus 23 pages of guidance, sets out the processes by which [...]
Integrated Risk Management is GRC Redefined and Expanded
Integrated Risk Management is GRC Redefined On October 17, John Wheeler of Gartner described the replacement of GRC software as a market segment with the label “Integrated Risk Management”[1]. Some of the key [...]
Solar Storms: The Next Black Swan?
Black Swans have been used extensively to describe previously unknown events of extreme impact/severity but with unknown or remote likelihood since Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s[1] publication in 2007 of The Black Swan: The Impact of the [...]
The Three Pillars of GRC
The release of the information about the horrendous manipulation of customer trust in order to achieve banking sales goals and bonuses has been well covered in the media. There has been concern that [...]
Dealing with the Earthquake Risk I Didn’t See Coming
Dealing with the Earthquake Risks There’s something wonderful about a clear blue sky at 7am, a second cup of coffee, enjoying a lazy Labor Day weekend, and some alone time as the family sleeps [...]
How’s your GRC ROI?
The Risk industry really, really loves TLA’s even more than tech (a ‘TLA’ is a Three Letter Acronym, one more to add to your arsenal). We bounce GRC around. A lot. But what does it actually [...]
ISO Here, ISO There, I See ISO Everywhere
ISO Here, ISO There, I See ISO Almost Everywhere ISO, the International Standards Organization[1], has published over 21,000 standards covering just about anything you can think of and probably a few you’d never imagine. [...]
The UK Insurance Act: Make Sure Friday the 12th isn’t like Friday the 13th
Captive insurers[1] have continued to grow in numbers, size and diversity of risks insured. In the article Captive Creativity published this month by Risk Management magazine[2], Caroline McDonald mentioned that there are nearly [...]
Bottom-up Risk Management: Lessons Learned from Top Down Failure
Learn a lot from Bottom-up Risk Management We sat down with Jack Tatum, Riskonnect’s global evangelist, to talk strategic risk for a few minutes and especially about bottom-up risk management. Organizations of all sizes [...]
Riskonnect Client Erickson Living Multiple Award Winner for 2016
Erickson Living, a leading national developer of senior living communities, has been honored as a leader in employee health and safety — and information technology — for 2016. Erickson received the 2016 Corporate Health [...]
Vodafone Selects Riskonnect as Technology Partner to Align Enterprise Risk Management Efforts
Riskonnect, the leader of integrated risk management solutions, continues its growth in the global market with the announcement today of Vodafone Group Services Limited (Vodafone) as a client. Riskonnect beat a comprehensive group of [...]
Pokémon Go ‘Pokébombed’ My Retail Chain – Now What?
It might sound silly to ask, but could an immensely popular video game be the most significant emerging risk against retail, hospitals, restaurants and anywhere with a door that [...]
Innovation Starts at the Top and Never Stops
Riskonnect was thrilled to learn that our CEO, Bob Morrell, was chosen as a key influencer in the insurance industry due to all the innovation he is driving at Riskonnect. AM Best’s Best’s Review magazine, July 2016 [...]
Riskonnect in Top 40 Fastest Growing Middle Market Companies in Georgia
Riskonnect, the leader in integrated risk management technology, was honored as the 15th fastest-growing middle market company headquartered in Georgia with revenues between $15-$60 million by the ACG’s Georgia Fast 40 Awards. There were more [...]
Riskonnect Enhances Security Controls and Privacy Operations By Completing SOC 2 Type 2 Audit
Riskonnect, the leading provider of enterprise-wide risk management technology, announced it has successfully completed the Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 Type 2 audit. “Completing the SOC 2 Type 2 audit demonstrates our ongoing commitment [...]
Riskonnect Expands Healthcare Capabilities with Addition of Patient Safety Veteran
Riskonnect, the leader of enterprise-wide risk management technology, continues to expand its healthcare capabilities with the addition of Jay Lechtman to its healthcare team. Lechtman left a leadership position at healthcare incident reporting [...]
Riskonnect Expands Reach into Healthcare Market with the Addition of Virginia-Based Carilion Clinic
Riskonnect, the leader of enterprise-wide risk management technology, continues its growth in the healthcare market with the announcement today of Carilion Clinic as a client. Riskonnect provides innovative technology to help healthcare providers [...]
Riskonnect CEO to Speak on the Current and Future State of RMIS Market at Atlanta RIMS Event
Bob Morrell, founder and CEO of Riskonnect, the only global provider of enterprise-class risk management technology, will participate in the Atlanta RIMS Luncheon on May 19 at Maggiano’s Perimeter location from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Patrick [...]
Pacesetter Awards Recognize Riskonnect as One of the Fastest Growing Private Companies in Atlanta
Riskonnect, the only global provider of enterprise-wide risk management technology, was recognized by the Atlanta Business Chronicle as the 61st fastest growing private company in the Atlanta metropolitan area at the 21st annual Pacesetter [...]
Riskonnect Demonstrating Solutions to Achieve Best-in-Class Risk Management at RIMS Annual Conference and Exhibition
Riskonnect, the leader in enterprise-wide risk management technology, is showcasing two of their technology solutions for the risk management industry in booth #2347 during the RIMS Annual Conference and Exhibition (RIMS ‘16) — the [...]
Riskonnect and Milliman Collaborate to Improve Management of Self-Insured Claims Outcomes with Cutting-Edge Predictive Analytics
Riskonnect and Milliman announced today they have collaborated to bring cutting-edge predictive analytics to the self-insured industry, improving the management of claim outcomes. Now, all organizations will have access to a revolutionary approach to [...]
Riskonnect Expands Offices to Elite Financial District in London to Meet Growing Client Demand
Riskonnect, the independent leader in risk technology, moved into its new offices this week located at 11 Leadenhall Street, London – situated next door to Lloyd’s of London, in the heart of London’s financial [...]
Riskonnect Taps Quin Rodriguez as Director of GRC Sales
Riskonnect, the leading provider of risk management technology, announced today the appointment of Quin Rodriguez as Director of Governance Risk & Compliance (GRC) Sales. Rodriguez brings to Riskonnect more than 18 years of Executive [...]
Riskonnect and Fusion Risk Management, Inc. Form Strategic Alliance
Riskonnect and Fusion Risk Management today announced a strategic alliance to jointly market and deliver a unified solution consisting of Riskonnect’s risk management work platform and Fusion Risk Management’s Fusion Framework® Business Continuity [...]
The ROI of RMIS – Download Your White Paper on ROI of RMIS
Download the white paper The ROI of RMIS “The ROI of RMIS“ white paper originally appeared on Advisen Insurance Intelligence website. March 2015 Advisen hosted a webinar and released a white paper, "The ROI of RMIS", that discusses how organizations [...]
2015 Innovation Awards: IASIS Healthcare L.L.C., Riskonnect Inc. & Return to Work
Riskonnect’s “Return To Work” technology platform helps IASIS experience a 39% decrease in total incurred costs in the first year after the program was implemented, according to an article from BusinessInsurance.com. 2015 Innovation Awards: IASIS [...]
Riskonnect Supports Patient Safety Awareness Week: March 8-14, 2015
Riskonnect is proud to support The National Patient Safety Foundation’s (NPSF) “Patient Safety Awareness Week: March 8-14, 2015”. Riskonnect believes in, and supports, the NPSF’s vision “to create a world where patients and those who [...]
Riskonnect Selected as “Best Risk Management Service Provider 2015” by IRM
Riskonnect Selected as “Best Risk Management Service Provider 2015” by IRM The Institute for Risk Management (IRM) honoured Riskonnect as Best risk management service provider at the 2015 IRM Global Risk Awards at its [...]
Riskonnect Awarded “Risk Management Service Provider of the Year” at the Global Risk Awards 2015
We are excited to announce that Riskonnect, Inc. has been awarded the “Risk Management Service Provider of the Year” at the Global Risk Awards ceremony in London on February, 19th, 2015. From the Global Risk [...]
Riskonnect University Expands to Offer Risk and Insurance Designations
Understanding how to use innovative risk technology is awesome. Understanding why to use it is out of this world. KENNESAW,GA – February, 19, 2015 – Riskonnect, Inc., the leading provider of cloud-based risk management technology, announced [...]
Riskonnect Honoured by CIR for Best Risk Management Product of the Year at the 5th Annual CIR Risk Management Awards
LONDON, UK, 26 November, 2014: Continuity, Insurance and Risk Magazine (CIR Magazine), essential reading for the risk management, business continuity, and commercial insurance markets, recognized Riskonnect GRC as the Best Risk Management Product of the Year at [...]
Riskonnect Healthcare Unleashes its Expanded Healthcare Work Platform At ASHRM 2014, With David McElroy Tapped As Healthcare Practice Director
October 24, 2014: The Riskonnect Healthcare work platform with many new and enhanced features and functionality will be on unveiled at ASHRM 2014 Annual Conference & Exhibition this October 26-29 in Anaheim, California. After making [...]
Riskonnect Continues Rapid Growth and Expansion of Risk Management Market; Comments on Aon eSolutions’ Divestiture
Riskonnect Continues Rapid Growth and Expansion of Risk Management Market; Comments on Aon eSolutions’ Divestiture. Atlanta, GA, September 3, 2014 – From a vision to build on a cloud platform in 2007 to the leader [...]
Riskonnect Meets Global Demand for Innovative Risk Management Technology with the Appointments of Mike Sherwood, Gary Evans, and Jim Collins
Riskonnect, the leading provider of risk management technology, expands its sales and business development teams with the appointment of Mike Sherwood as Vice President, Sales, and Gary Evans and Jim Collins as Regional Sales [...]
Level Equity Invests $10 Million in Risk Technology Innovator Riskonnect
June 4, 2013, Kennesaw, GA – Riskonnect, the independent leader in risk technology, today announced that it has raised $10 million in growth capital. The minority investment will enable Riskonnect to extend its market leadership [...]
Riskonnect Grows and Taps Andrew Duttine as EMEA Sales Executive
LONDON–(BUSINESSWIRE)– Riskonnect Grows. Riskonnect, the leading provider of risk management information system technology, continues to expand its global presence with the appointment of Andrew Duttine as EMEA Sales Executive. Riskonnect, the leading provider of [...]
Riskonnect Unveils the Next Generation of Mobile Risk Management
Mobile Risk Management See Riskonnect1 Mobile App at the RIMS 2014 Conference in Denver, Colorado At Riskonnect, ‘Mobile is King.’ The leading independent risk technology provider is shaking up the RIMS 2014 Conference in [...]
Risk Technology: Risk Managers Lead from Within
Bob Morrell is CEO and Co-Founder of Riskonnect. He oversees the strategic vision and strategy of Riskonnect, a provider of risk management technology. Bob hones his competitive skills practicing mixed martial arts, along with [...]
Riskonnect Customers Tell About Their Experiences
A roundup of customer views
IASIS Healthcare
Healthcare
Savage Services
Transportation
Southwest Airlines
Transportation
Southwest Airlines
Transportation
Vulcan Materials Company
Construction
CornerStone Staffing Solutions
Recruiting
Southwest Airlines
Transportation
Kaiser Permanente
Healthcare
Kaiser Permanente
Healthcare
Snap-on Tools
Manufacturing
Crown Holdings, Inc.
Crown Holdings, Inc. is the leader in metal packaging technology. Learn how Sandra M. DiRenzo, director of risk management, and her team use technology to simplify their job of managing risk and claims. [...]
Root Cause Analysis Helps Build Safety Culture
Problem: One of the country’s largest food distributors was experiencing an upward trend in the frequency and severity of claims. To make matters worse, safety measures such as Accidents per Million Miles (AMM) and Recordable [...]
Technology Fuels Easier, Faster Renewals – and So Much More
Problem: Collecting current loss exposure information prior to an insurance renewal was a painful, time-consuming process for a global high-tech manufacturing company. Historically, risk managers used spreadsheets to gather and disseminate important exposure data – [...]
Boosting Safety through Accountability
Problem: Maintaining impeccably high safety standards was a challenge for a large manufacturer and retailer of toys, clothing, and other merchandise. The company operates hundreds of stores that were built at different times, have different [...]
One Hospital Aims to Stop Preventable Harm with Better Incident Reporting
Problem: One of the country’s largest and most well-respected hospitals prides itself on quality of care and patient safety. The hospital challenged employees to think about patient and nonpatient care in new ways to ensure [...]
Trading Spreadsheets for Savings on Claims
Problem: A private company that provides health services to residential institutions around the country used a spreadsheet and a TPA to handle all of its professional liability claims. Consequently, it had no statistics on [...]
Analytics Predict Better Workers’ Comp Results
Problem: A large multinational company had a pressing need to get injured workers back on the job – and drive down its workers’ compensation costs. The company had plenty of data, but no good [...]
Effective Loss Prevention Comes with Better Understanding of Risks
Problem: A large, urban school district needed a system to capture, monitor, and report on a wide variety of risk-related incidents and costs to ensure the safety of both staff and students. The district was [...]
Data and Analytics Improve Safety for Patients and Employees
Problem: Patient and employee safety are of paramount importance to a prominent medical center. The organization, however, was at a disadvantage because it did not have the ability to understand what was causing medical errors [...]