RMIS Configurability Starts with Architecture September 17, 2026 By adrian Risk managers who have been through more than one RMIS evaluation know the pattern. During the polished demo every workflow looks adjustable, every form appears editable, and the sales team answers every configuration question with “yes.” Then the system goes live. From there, any change to an approval chain, a form field, or a report … Continued
Management of Change in Manufacturing: How to Close the Gap Between the Program You Have and the Record That Holds Up September 14, 2026 By adrian An auditor asks for documentation on a process change from six months ago. It happened at a facility two states away. Most corporate EHS leaders at multi-site manufacturers know this moment well. Whether they can produce that record is the real test of their management of change process. Most organizations have a management of change … Continued
Why Your Audit Committee Isn’t Satisfied With Your ERM Reporting Anymore September 2, 2026 By adrian You prepared for the audit committee meeting the way you always do, with current scores, a clean register, and a clear narrative about how the cycle ran. Your enterprise risk management program was running on schedule. The meeting went sideways anyway. The questions weren’t about whether you had a process. They were about the reasoning … Continued
Integrated Risk Management (IRM) – What Is It, Why Does It Matter, and Where Should You Begin? August 25, 2026 By Origami Risk Why do organizational silos exist? Separate business functions help build expertise, assign accountability, and give teams a clear sense of identity and ownership. For some organizations, that vertical structure is a strength. For others, it becomes a problem. Risk management, safety, and compliance professionals know this tension well. They share a common goal of identifying, … Continued
The Value of Benchmarking in Claims Management August 24, 2026 By Origami Risk You close a workers’ comp claim in 90 days. Is that good? Without something to compare it against, it’s genuinely hard to say. Maybe your peers are closing similar claims in 60. Maybe 90 is exceptional given your claim complexity. You can use the data to understand what happened, but benchmarking can help you understand … Continued
Why Your RMIS Should Own Your Insurance Program Data August 14, 2026 By adrian For risk teams managing complex insurance programs, renewal preparation routinely takes months. The timeline reflects the real effort required to assemble a complete program view from scattered sources. Policy terms live in carrier PDFs, quote histories disappeared the moment coverage was bound, and endorsements are tracked in whatever system someone thought to use at the … Continued
How Risk Technology Teams Are Breaking the Custom Integration Cycle August 12, 2026 By adrian Somewhere in the depths of risk technology environments, there’s an informal list. It tracks the custom integrations IT has built over the years, like the feed that pulls claims data from the TPA, the connection to the policy system, or the job that syncs vehicle records before Monday morning reports. Most risk technology organizations have … Continued
The Four Data Streams That Make Contractor Safety Management Predictive August 7, 2026 By adrian You’ve built the prequalification program. You collect certificates of insurance, review EMR scores, check OSHA 300 logs. The process has gotten more thorough every year. And yet a subcontractor clears every checkpoint, arrives on site, and drives a spike in your incident frequency within the first month. Prequalification was designed to answer if each contractor … Continued
The Risk Manager’s Guide to Putting TCOR Data to Work July 29, 2026 By adrian TCOR gives you a complete picture of what risk actually costs your organization. But it’s not useful if you only look at it once a year. Calculating TCOR accurately means pulling together data from across the organization, including premiums from multiple carriers, claims from a TPA, and admin costs spread across finance and HR. That … Continued
The Hidden Cost of Disconnected Safety Data in Transportation July 23, 2026 By adrian A fleet safety director can spend the first two hours of their week pulling data before they can answer the question that actually matters: what actually happened last Friday. Transportation safety and risk managers have more data than ever, spread across more systems than ever. By the time someone reconciles it all, the moment to … Continued