By Riaan Bekker, Force Solutions Manager, thryve The impact of technology often comes up in conversations I have, usually about how it’s changing things. People fret about ideas such as digital disruption or being replaced by technological efficiency. Concerns like those are valid. Disintermediation is something that many service-based industries should be worried about. […]
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Feb
Feb
By Neer Rama, Force Solutions Product Manager at thryve Silos once made a lot of sense. In the early 20th century, companies and states grew much larger and complex. Managing these behemoths was not easy and led to the creation of various layers that could toe the line, keep activities aligned with strategy and, […]
12
Feb
Feb
By Riaan Bekker, Force Solutions Manager at thryve The Chinese word for ‘crisis’ is not a combination of ‘danger’ and ‘opportunity’. Like many such attributed pieces of wisdom, the actual concept came from Western authors fascinated by the idea, encouraged by a mistranslation of the Chinese word. Politicians, most famously US President John F. Kennedy, […]
06
Feb
Feb
As a proud Salesforce partner, implementer and developer, thryve keeps a close eye on the business services giant. That includes the many great blogs that Salesforce produces every year. There are too many to browse through, so we picked some of our favourite blogs from 2019. In no particular order, here are ten Salesforce […]
Enterprise Risk Management, Governance, Risk and Compliance, Integrated Risk Management, Risk Management, Risk Management
How cloud simplifies complex risk and insurance environments
05
Feb
Feb
By Neer Rama, Force Solutions Product Manager at thryve Managing risks and insurance across a single business is difficult. To do so across numerous entities is orders of magnitude harder. The information has to be drawn from different stakeholders, each with their own capturing and reporting standards. Instead of an orchestra, risk and insurance […]
Governance, Risk and Compliance, Risk Management
Are you providing answers through your risk visualisation?
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Jan
Jan
By Riaan Bekker, Force Solutions Manager at thryve Determining risk is complicated – risk managers know this. But some might say explaining risk to others is even harder. You can’t simply demonstrate the technical path you followed to reach your conclusions. This might not only alienate your target audience, but it’s also insufficient. Humans […]
Blog, Enterprise Risk Management, Governance, Risk and Compliance, Integrated Risk Management, Risk Management, Thought Leadership
Fixing strategic risk: the rise of objective-based ERM
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Oct
Oct
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 an introduction to organisational risk. The ever-present SWOT analysis is essentially about identifying risks and opportunities, […]
Blog, Customer Relationship Management, Customer Success, News, Thought Leadership
Claims management across a Conglomerate: thryve Customer Story
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Sep
Sep
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 to expand those as well as into new ventures. But to do so, it needed […]
Blog, Enterprise Risk Management, Governance, Risk and Compliance, Integrated Risk Management, Risk Management, Thought Leadership
The interesting history of Governance, Risk and Compliance
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Sep
Sep
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 & Compliance vs. Integrated Risk Management’ became a topic of debate when research firm Gartner decided a […]
Blog, Enterprise Risk Management, Integrated Risk Management, Thought Leadership
Why IRM matters – the IRM cloud story
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Sep
Sep
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 technology services in the same category. Instead, it has created a new category, IRM or Integrated Risk […]