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Advancing in this field requires a combination of technical and intrapersonal expertise. Understanding your value as a data scientist and extending that ingenuity to various enterprises is the key.

MDM is growing in importance to keep up with a proliferation of analytics and external demands.

Five steps carriers can take to modernize their processes while retaining the human and emotional touch of the business line.

Organizations that win at digital become gravity points for the best talent. And the best talent is what organizations need to keep transforming in these times of change.

Companies that have vast amounts of data can easily step into the space and start competing with insurers. Here's how to dodge the threat.

Wage growth is starting to accelerate, and CIOs could find themselves paying premiums for certain roles in high demand such as data science, AI, security and cloud technology.

The processes and structures which have been effective in building capacity in the past won’t be able to address the market today.

While data has immeasurably improved a range of functions and processes, the manner in which data is used by insurers carries significant potential privacy implications and further regulatory scrutiny.

Blockchain use fundamentally changes the way that different constituencies -- including insurers and departments of insurance -- interact.

Services like Venmo and PayPal allow consumers to pay friends and family electronically. Insurers should meet that standard.

The landscape shifts with which the insurance industry is currently contending include new developments in both technology and consumer behavior.

Innovation and digital transformation are top-of-mind for these lines of business this year, according to SMA research.

The key is to leverage customer data in a trustworthy manner and deliver clear incentives for customers.

The coming year is expected to be a crossroads for the industry. Here's what to look out for to see what's next.

By 2022, 90 percent of corporate strategies will explicitly mention information as a critical enterprise asset and analytics as an essential competency.

There will be many new data sources and tools available, increasing exposure to cyber risk in the world.

Enterprises must look beyond the network, storage and compute stack to create meaningful insights out of data—the true business asset.

As we approach the end of the year and move forward into a year with new cyber risks, here are seven tips to avoid and combat cybersecurity risks.

It is a powerful positioning for insurance carriers to view themselves as data companies first, incorporating that information across all facets of the organization.

As businesses continue to embrace innovation, the following five trends should remain top of mind for organizations looking to continue to drive their digital transformation initiatives in 2019.

Can insurance companies achieve the same level of importance as Apple in their customer’s lives using digital techniques?

Technology must simply be one of the ways we create a seamless and positive customer experience.

Getting started with RPA may look different from business to business, but designing a proof-of-concept project is often the best way to jumpstart RPA efforts in your organization.

Carriers must think about the initial investment to build digitally, and the continuing commitment to development and innovation, says past WIL winner.

The insurance industry is a leader in having a shared digital vision to meet digital business aspirations, but there is much to be done, when it comes to rethinking the business model and institutionalizing digital capabilities.

The real challenge finding data scientists is not in finding the individual contributors, but instead in finding their managers.

As sci-fi author William Gibson said, the future is already here. It’s just not evenly distributed.

Upheaval in product development and new offerings made possible by connected devices mean insurance's 'moment of truth' is evolving rapidly.

Across the industry, carriers report that basic third-party data capabilities are common and that pilot activity is high.

Machine learning adoption has been growing at a rapid pace, and there is no end in sight. Recent forecasts say pilots and implementations, as well as investments, will increase 400 percent by 2021.

Despite the strong and inherently negative narrative around the impact on jobs, the bulk of the impact from the automation of work through AI will result in a 'displacement' of work not a 'replacement' of work.

insurers have an opportunity to use the same data integration techniques for data prefill to automatically integrate data into more complex lines of business.

A chatbot might very well be a slower interaction than a well-designed portal, but there is other value.

For the first time ever, emerging technology investment has superseded customer understanding as the No. 1 thing firms want to do to be more innovative.

Using APIs and microservices to modernize service offerings results in fewer layers of complexity.

Massive-scale catastrophes like hurricanes and fires benefit from an overhead look at the affected region.

The recent ISACA-CMMI Institute cybersecurity culture research illustrates the accomplishments and gaps that are seen in the cybersecurity culture of many organizations.

Exploring why the life insurance industry must reimagine its relationship with policyholders as it faces disruption.

Carriers are making big investments in customer experience, but still have a number of holes to patch, Celent analyst finds.

The problem comes when hackers use authorized additions to the blockchain as cover to disguise and attach malware aimed at attacking the blockchain from within.

While most executives expect AI to have a transformative impact on economic growth and competitiveness, executives may need to temper near-term expectations.

For AI in insurance, the conversations have moved beyond the use cases and on to the pragmatic details.

Technologies such as autonomous vehicles, AI, wearables, the Internet of Things, and more have emerged as power players.

There are several pressing issues related to the IoT and data transparency practices. These problems concern both businesses and consumers using IoT devices.

The transition to cloud inevitably changes an organization’s daily business.

Insurers in the line of business are innovating in many areas including quoting, servicing, claims, and the overall customer experience.

A Women in Insurance Leadership nominee talks about building camaraderie.

A few recent examples illustrate the new interest in insurance from those both inside and outside of the insurance industry.

Companies transforming the sector provide stable returns and a transformative future based on data.

A quarter of commercial insurers are now leveraging AI, and other new entrants are picking up steam as well.

Many carriers are leveraging some type of artificial intelligence to solve widely variant business problems.