Insure Think

Examining the administrative burden of doing business with the E&S market.

Insurers should be in the business of making life safer and better for consumers all the time.

There is a role for both types of CIO, each organization has different priorities whether they’re an insurer, intermediary, vendor, start-up, etc.

The Evolution of Insurance – The Friendly Society Evolves Sanjay Mohan describes the evolution of Insurance and how Insurance has always been about a "community" of customers. This blog highlights today’s market need for carriers to rediscover the consumer.

Insurers can learn from the use of activity tracking in other fields to help their customers make better decisions.

Last week, we discussed the reality that most IT organizations are making well-intentioned investments, but that their investment portfolio may be out of balance. To read last week’s blog,click here.

What are the mobile leaders, including Allstate, Progressive, State Farm and Geico, doing to go from standard to strong?

Building, acquiring or even renting an international network is increasingly becoming a must-have for any underwriting business attracted to customers beyond the small-and-medium-enterprise and mid-market audience.

Will the digital giants also become insurance giants?

Eighty percent of health plan data is unstructured. Text mining can transform it into a format open to analysis.

The abundance of technology choices consumers have has triggered a shift in expectations.

There is an inevitable rethink – again – about social media metrics.

Insurers’ recent partnerships indicates a faster move to digital. What’s next?

Sam Medina begins a 3-part series on Transforming the IT Investment Budget in order to fund new programs and initiatives without the necessity of additional capital expense.

Mobile opens up new avenues of interaction with customers, as well as adding a new dimension to internal operations.

When prices are relatively the same, the differentiator is now customer experience.

This growing combination of real-time data collection from remote sources, wireless connectivity and analytics could affect virtually every aspect of insurance.

Sam Medina describes the wealth of data that should be gleaned from Legacy systems in order to build organizational knowledge back into modern systems during transformation.

PolicyWriter, by Adaptik Corp., is like no other P&C policy administration solution on the market – and we’re happy to prove it. Today’s Adaptik Blog entry highlights the software’s rule management capabilities.

Insurers reveal what technology initiatives are on their horizons and what technological challenges keep them up at night.

Assigning yourself the “chief encouragement officer” title and breaking out of ineffective interpersonal communication patterns may be just the first step required to lead today’s diverse insurance IT workforce.

What IT leaders can do to mix it up with the rest of the business.

While it sounds like a marketing buzzword, data lakes offer an alternative to enterprise data warehouses.

Opening up the data pipeline means new opportunities for insurers.

Against the ebb and flow of a society becoming fully dependent on technology for their physical and social needs, insurers are driven to keep up.

Insurers at the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation’s Women in Insurance meeting describe a unique defining moment that lead them to realize and act on their professional passion.

Finding the right data and matching it to the right decisions is a fundamental necessity, and thinking three decisions ahead will set you and your company apart.

Lately, the trend has been toward fast-and-furious delivery of solutions. Is there a downside?

A recent survey finds that more than 33 percent of employees either are actively looking for a new position or are keeping their options open.

Is the disaggregation of insurance products inevitable?

Sensors and devices are creating new approaches to premium billing.

A recent report identifies what it takes to make the transition to digital.

Sam Medina discusses how a new era of competition has driven Human Resources departments into a challenging position, where acquiring talented people is vital to achieve organizational advantage. Help can be found with transformational thinking and the creative use of technology.

Developers must understand the business language and directly engage the business side.

Google unveils prototype; simple vehicles will lack steering wheels.

PolicyWriter, by Adaptik Corp., is like no other P&C policy administration solution on the market – and we’re happy to prove it. Today’s Adaptik Blog entry highlights the software’s unique prototyping model. Want to read more about what makes PolicyWriter different? Click here.

Among the measures that insurers are turning to, the most prevalent are litigation management programs and claim analytics.

As analytics programs become increasingly prevalent and important in insurance organizations, putting the right people with the right skills on the project is crucial.

Analytics and predictive models are spreading across the enterprise.

While updating its online quoting tool, the insurer used multiple layers of measurement to understand how people were interacting with its website.

The insurance business is different from web properties, but they are providing lessons in rapid-fire innovation.

Sam Medina brainstorms on how the Legal, Compliance and Enterprise Risk Management department in an insurance company can tie its transformation efforts to the services it provides throughout the enterprise.

If the insurance industry is seen as the fusion of human and financial capital, then the willingness to embrace data analytics is strikingly uneven.

Five notes on how to successfully accomplish a major migration from one of the industry's biggest legacy migration projects.

Cisco report says companies need to do more to secure online experiences.

Insurers must recognize that data credibility is yet another dimension of data quality and take steps to address it.

Sam Medina discusses the challenges and best practices that insurers face when transforming the Sourcing and Procurement Services area.

Preparedness is the only weapon against increasingly sophisticated security challenges.

Innovation is a never-ending process.

Insurers are on the front lines of the cyber risk fight and can help clients discover and leverage best practices across industries.

Agents shouldn’t compete against their carriers for sales but we work with them for the benefit of their mutual clients.

The data is in: cloud is starting to make a dent in enterprise competitiveness.