Analytics

Greg Framke will be responsible for the IT operations for Canada's largest insurer.

The analyst firm looks at deployment rates to identify the key technologies that will shake up the industry this year.

While data acquisition is high in the industry, low deployments of tools outside those for marketing are depressing the industry's potential, says Novarica survey.

The number of organizations that plan to increase spending on data analytics and business intelligence efforts is dramatically larger among already high performers, says Accenture.

The new CIO is an eight-year veteran of the life insurer's IT department.

The insurer claims the FirstBest software will increase customer response time and overall efficiency

The software, EigenPrism, allows Lockton to help clients allocate resources for disaster planning

SVP of strategic analytics Kimberly Holmes says the insurer finds value in data variety, not sheer volume.

Human Condition Safety is developing tools to help predict and prevent workplace accidents.

However, promoting technology innovation in the industry is a strategy to fix the problem, according to The Hartford.