Joe McKendrick

Business necessity – or perceived lack thereof – holds back many modernization efforts.

Growth of spending on risk management tools projected to outpace the growth of overall IT spending, making it the hottest corner of the IT market.

Insurance executives downplay their service delivery and mobile capabilities so far, which is promising.

Carriers need to strike a balance between standardization and customization when writing policies and paying claims.

As the industry becomes increasingly digitized, marketing and IT must inevitably learn to utilize the integral skill sets they can offer each other.

Using Wayne Gretzky as a model for effectively processing Big Data.

How one financial services outsourcer reduced the pains of taking on new customers.

Five things IT executives should do to enhance the profitability of their departments.

Delivering standards across changing technologies and platforms is a fast-moving target. What can we do to shore up our efforts?

Everyone wants and needs to 'compete on analytics,' but who will assure the right data is being used?

With success in fraud detection, automated decision management could spread to low-level decisions in policy administration, underwriting and more.

New survey of CIO's 2012 priorities begs for a definition of "IT and business alignment."

IBM's annual X-Force report reveals the latest trends and abandoned tricks among IT security threats.

A natural-language supercomputer holds unlimited potential in unraveling uncertainties surrounding claims and conditions.

What's different about today's 'Big Data' when compared to 'Big Data' in 2000 or 1990?

GIS and social media converge to provide a 360-degree view of what's happening on the ground after disasters.

Some surprises emerge as I rehash INN's Legacy Systems Study in light of attempting to update my auto insurance.

Steve Jobs' visionary personality often lead him to create against the grain, making it that much easier for him to reshape our personal and professional lives in profound ways.

There are seven sets of open-source applications that run everything from front offices to CRM.

Data centers range from huge industrial complexes to shipping containers to smartphones.