Data mining

Nearly half of firms recently surveyed struggle to identify between data truths and manipulations. This indicates an urgent need to upskill and support workers, the report said.

Insurance companies are finally putting a price on the risk of distracted driving, and it’s relatively cheap.

Analytics skills are in short supply, but demands for data-driven results are not. Here are Forrester’s top tips on how chief data officers can drive business strategy.

Retailers are eyeing health insurers as acquisition targets to improve their pharmacy business, but carriers' information assets and analytics prowess are prizes as well.

Incumbents need to think like challengers: They have everything to lose, and not a lot to gain.

The life insurer’s LifeScore Labs division is ready to make its data tool available to other carriers in the space.

Several top colleges and universities are offering courses and concentrations in applying data to the sector.

The adoption of machine learning and the need for access to data beyond just data science team is changing how many firms approach information warehousing.

Companies will invest in building out and owning datasets, learning things about their customers that no one else does, and delivering exactly what those customers want and need.

Managing information in a digital world is as complex as the digital workflows supporting the efforts.