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Insurance in 2020: A personal touch will make the difference

By Riaan Bekker, Force Solutions Manager at thryve Personalisation is establishing itself as the cornerstone of modern insurance and insurtech. The trend has been building momentum for several years, and today it’s evident in the advertisements of numerous insurance [...]

31
Dec

Fixing strategic risk: the rise of objective-based ERM

By Neer Rama, Force Solutions Product Manager at thryve Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) gained popularity for a specific reason. It offered what risk management was initially meant to provide: strategic value. Even the most basic strategic management course is [...]

31
Oct

GRC vs IRM: Looking beyond names and acronyms

By Riaan Bekker, Force Solutions Manager at thryve Is there a difference between Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) and Integrated Risk Management (IRM)? This topic has sparked furious debate among different practitioners and technologists. It’s also the topic thryve [...]

29
Oct

Claims management across a Conglomerate: thryve Customer Story

Conglomerates are power business vehicles, delivering change and diversity that can materially improve the economies of entire nations, regions and even continents. One such conglomerate, an African giant, has been particularly successful across more than 15 sectors, with ambitions [...]

16
Sep

The interesting history of Governance, Risk and Compliance

By Riaan Bekker, Force Solutions Managed, thryve As we head towards the IRMSA conference, 2-3 October at Gallagher Estate in Midrand, Johannesburg, I am preparing for my presentation on the debate between GRC and IRM. ‘Governance, Risk & [...]

16
Sep

Why IRM matters – the IRM cloud story

By Riaan Bekker, Force Solutions Manager, thryve There is a bit of a storm in the GRC – that being the Governance, Risk and Compliance – world. Recently Gartner announced that it will no longer rate all GRC [...]

11
Sep

Discover the power of risk-informed decision-making

By Neer Rama, Force Solutions Product Manager at thryve Canada There is a bit of a furore in the risk-management world. Advisory firm Gartner has thrown a cat among the pigeons by creating a new category for integrated risk [...]

09
Sep

Thryve Customer Story: Taking internal corporate insurance to the next level

Corporations run internal insurance operations that look after their first-party insurance. These policies help mitigate risks inherent to the business and are different from customer-facing insurance services. A major South African financial corporation does exactly this. It gathers the [...]

29
Aug

thryve Customer Story: Bringing members into the centre of a professional body

Professionals appreciate the value of joining a group offering networking and development opportunities. It’s not a decision made lightly. Non-profit professional associations know that they have to appeal to the sensibilities of their current members, as well as sponsors [...]

29
Aug

Is Cloud CRM the future? The $48 billion says Yes

Over three quarters of $48 billion spent annually for CRM applications goes to cloud-based SaaS CRMs, according to Gartner. SaaS CRMs are much more flexible without creating lockin – they can be customised risk-free to the processes and [...]

28
Aug

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 are five steps from Riskonnect [...]

31
Jul

Gartner: Download the 2019 Full Report

thryve is proud to market and support Riskonnect’s integrated risk management solutions which are designed to make your job easier, faster, and more effective. Learn why Gartner named Riskonnect a Visionary for the second consecutive year in the 2019 [...]

29
Jul

Riskonnect named as Visionary in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant – again

By Riaan Bekker, Force Solutions Manager at thryve Integrated risk management (IRM) is a fairly new discipline, but it’s already making great strides towards transforming all types of organisations. The philosophy is straightforward: instead of risk information languishing in [...]

25
Jul

Start swimming with the insurance challengers

Insurance is changing, whether practitioners accept this or not. It is simply the reality of an industry where many new participants are arriving, rising fast and bringing a big wake of change along with them. Those companies that cannot [...]

24
Jul

Want risk to help leaders? Make it visual

By Riaan Bekker, Force Solutions Manager at thryve A picture tells a thousand words. We are instinctively visual creatures: seeing is believing and, I’d add, accepting. If you have to make decisions, you need to accept certain truths first. [...]

22
Jul

Reducing administration and improving process awareness at RTT

thryve Customer Story RTT is one of South Africa’s top logistics companies, moving thousands of deliveries every day to satisfied customers both inside SA and beyond her borders. Part of these operations includes insuring cargo as well as processing [...]

20
Jul

Podcast: Platform’s Place In Modern Business

Tony van Niekerk of COVER talks tech with Riaan Bekker, Force Solutions Manager at Thryve, more specifically Platforms. In a recent article in COVER magazine, Riaan mentioned that platforms are perfect for the Insurance industry. To start the ball rolling Tony [...]

18
Jul

Cover interviews Riaan Bekker at AIE 2019

COVER Magazine interviews thryve at African Insurance Exchange 2019

COVER Magazine interviewed selected delegates from the African Insurance Exchange 2019 held in Sun City – watch what Riaan Bekker, thryve’s Force Solutions Manager, says about the African Insurance Exchange 2019 and what thryve will be talking to insurance professionals [...]

17
Jul

South Africa’s thryve Sets Up Shop In Canada

“We believe that this is the right time to enter the market and offer our cutting edge risk and insurance solutions to a wider audience.” thryve, South African-based provider of insurance, risk and governance technology solutions, has set [...]

16
Jul

thryve opens Canadian office to boost its fast-growing market

thryve, a leading provider of insurance, risk and governance technology solutions, is proud to announce the opening of an office in Canada. Located in the vibrant city of Toronto, this branch of thryve looks forward to tapping the fast-emerging [...]

15
Jul

Don’t shoehorn Insurance into generic CRMs

By Riaan Bekker, Force Solutions Manager at thryve Insurance is an investment business, wrapped as a grudge purchase. Let’s be honest: if bad things didn’t happen, people wouldn’t need insurance. So it makes sense that a successful insurance [...]

22
Jun

Are you aggregating your risks effectively for insurance market confidence?

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21
May

Making sense of GRC software features: Risk Control & Management Part 3

Risk management is a demanding discipline. As one politician infamously quipped, there are known knowns [...]

16
May

GRC and IT have more in common than they think

13th Mar 2019

If companies want to prosper and innovate through digital technologies, they would be smart to begin aligning these ambitions with governance. [...]

AI steps up for insurance in 2019

13th Mar 2019

If you catch a flight a decade from now, chances are very good that your trip will be flown by artificial intelligence. Even if there is a pilot, they’ll be aided by an AI assistant that monitors everything and [...]

AI steps up for insurance in 2019

If you catch a flight a decade from now, chances are very good that your trip will be flown by artificial intelligence. [...]

20
Feb

Modern business happens on digital platforms

Digital platforms are changing how companies use technology services and operate their business models [...]

20
Jan

Technology Can Be A Recipe For Success

In times of change, we often mistakenly identify the catalysts of this change, and focus our energies [...]

23
Oct

Cyber Security and Risk: What you can do

Not only is cybersecurity a growing risk that demands attention, but it is becoming more complex [...]

15
Oct

3 warning signs of poor governance policy

As a risk manager, you are an important guardian who safeguards the future of your company. [...]

15
Oct

Riskonnect to Acquire Marsh ClearSight

Risk management is a complicated occupation, so when you find tools that aid you in that process, the last thing you want to hear is that those may be under threat [...]

15
Oct

Riskonnect + Marsh ClearSight: Why this is good for your company

Risk management is a complicated occupation, so when you find tools that aid you in that process [...]

15
Oct

Data and Risk: What should your company know?

We’ve all read the provocative headlines: data is the new gold, the new currency of the 21st century. [...]

15
Oct

How can risk managers add more value to their organisations?

Ask most risk managers what types of risk exist at a company and they are likely to distinguish two groups [...]

15
Oct

Time to move beyond the spreadsheet

Data is all about visibility. If you cannot see and interact with data, then it has no value. This is why we are excited about data because we have so much more visibility. [...]

15
Oct

Spreadsheets are great, but they aren’t enough

Ledgers and lists have always been a part of businesses. The ancient Phoenicians invented the modern alphabet in order to manage... [...]

15
Oct

Riskonnect Completes Acquisition of Marsh ClearSight

Deal strengthens Riskonnect’s position as a global leader in integrated risk management solutions. [...]

01
Oct

Making Sense of GRC Software Features Part 2

The very first shovels were the bones of large animals, such as the shoulder blade of an ox. [...]

23
Aug

Making Sense of GRC Software Features: Integration Capabilities Part 1

Every serious business is invested in some kind of technology stack. Don’t let the fanciful phrase spook you [...]

23
Aug

Stop falling for the ‘not me’ myth: why cyber risk is business risk

The recent data breach experienced by Liberty is very telling. Over 40 terabytes – the equivalent of 20 modern portable hard drives... [...]

06
Jul

The link between compliance and risk

Compliance is a growing challenge. 48 percent of companies saw their regulatory teams grow in 2017 and 75 percent foresee the need to focus more on managing regulatory risk [...]

06
Jul

Thoma Bravo Announces Strategic Growth Investment with Acquisition of Riskonnect

On June 7, 2017, Thoma Bravo LLC, a leading private equity firm focused on [...]

20
Jun

Where do you stand on GDPR?

Some in the world recently awoke with a shock to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) deadline that came to pass on 25 May [...]

01
Jun

GDPR is here: 9 ways technology can help get ready for it

If you do any business with companies or persons in the European Union, or process any data from the EU [...]

23
May

Changing risk software: How to manage the culture

A friend of mine is a keen cyclist. He had a trusty bicycle that carried him around, especially when taking the kids out over weekends... [...]

25
Apr

Building company culture to identify risk

In 1987, a London Underground ticket seller was alerted to a burning tissue on one of the escalators. They duly put it out, but didn’t report [...]

09
Apr

Thryve and Analytix partner to turn risk fears into business currency

Forget about leave and public holidays hampering productivity – there is real change that can happen right now at the coalface. [...]

28
Feb

2018’s risk trends: What your company will be thinking about

No one can truly predict what a year will hold, yet that is often the job of risk managers. But while predicting the future [...]

08
Feb

The reputational risk posed by the Ford Kuga recall

2017 broke to the news that the Ford Kuga 1.6 vehicles were being recalled owing to the fact that they are spontaneously bursting into flames. According to a report by [...]

06
Feb

How cloud technology makes risk management more potent and relevant.

In the comings and goings of business, risk is often treated as a canary in a coalmine. [...]

15
Jan