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I remember coming home from a trip to New Orleans and telling my wife that I had given a “talk” to about 600 people. She looked at me with a perplexed look on her face and said “Why would 600 people care about anything you had to say?” Now, you may think that was an insulting response, but actually, it was a completely valid question. What my wife didn’t know was that I am sort of an expert. Unfortunately, my expertise is in a subject that is so narrow, so obscure and so esoteric that there may only be 600 people in the world remotely interested in my subject. But, by golly… I am one of the world’s foremost experts on this one narrow, obscure and esoteric subject. The subject is applying technology to Risk Management best practices.

My name is Jack Tatum. I entered the Risk Management industry at age 30 and I have spent the last 32 years in this industry with a career background that is uniquely arranged (quite accidently) to be one of the foremost experts in applying technology to Risk Management best practices.
The career list:
> Dun & Bradstreet – 4GL Database Architect
> Risk Sciences Group, Inc. – Director of Technical Operations
> Risk Sciences Group, Inc. – VP of Product Development
> Risk Sciences Group, Inc. – President and CEO
> Crawford & Company – Chief Information Officer (CIO)
> Marsh Risk Consulting – Managing Director – South Region
> Willis – EVP Strategic Consulting

and for the past 7 years,
> Vice President of Global Business Development at Riskonnect, Inc.

So, since I’m now 62 years old and have one foot in retirement and one foot on a banana peel, I thought I would do a brain dump of some of my observations over the years.   This blog is full of my opinions.  You are welcome to disagree with everything I say here because you may know better than me.  That’s fine… This is just my view the world of applying technology to Risk Management best practices.

And lastly – under full disclosure – I am employed by Riskonnect. While this is my blog and not specifically about Riskonnect, it does contain a lot of cool technology stories that happen to be possible on the Riskonnect RMAP⁽¹⁾.  Not all of them are exclusive to Riskonnect but some of them are.  The reason I relate so many of these stories is because this new technology is changing people’s lives.  What?  Isn’t that a bit hyperbolic, Jack? NO IT ISN’T!

When I first saw the Riskonnect RMAP⁽¹⁾, I was literally stunned because it was my answer to 12 years of frustration at Marsh Risk Consulting as I struggled to implement best practices manually. The process automation technology I needed just didn’t exist at the time. But there it was, right before my very eyes! I immediately began begging the Riskonnect CEO, Bob Morrell to let me work at Riskonnect because it was absolutely the coolest thing I had ever seen.  What I wasn’t expecting was 6 years later, client after client telling me with tears in their eyes, that Riskonnect had “changed their lives.”  I have actually postponed my retirement (much to my wife’s chagrin) because I want to leave a legacy of changed lives for the people I have shared an industry with for the past 32 years. People that I love.  That is why I write this blog.  I hope you enjoy.

⁽¹⁾ RMAP = Risk Management Automation Platform (this is not an official term… I just made it up)