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A more optimistic outlook among most industry executives should mean a reinvigorated focus on the fundamentals behind achieving operational excellence.

Insurance companies are committing to technology-led expansion, unfortunately, particularly for IT hiring efforts, so is every other type of company.

Thanks to this week’s Supreme Court oral arguments, insurers have an opportunity to rethink how they conduct business.

What IDC's recent projections of cloud job growth mean for insurers.

The trickle-down consequences of increased outsourcing and reduced developer footprints could be a severe lack of in-house talent.

Is crowdsourcing a legitimate, sustainable method of solving business problems?

For dealing with the immense complexities behind regulatory and risk concerns, static data and spreadsheets may not cut it.

Upcoming IPv6 Launch Day means a permanent switchover. Are all your systems ready?

Automakers’ recent move to incorporate smartphone hubs into production and the recent outcries against distracted driving could put insurers in precarious position.

New CIO survey reveals growing concern over who will be able to run back-end systems.

Why insurers are increasingly pressured to toss their hats into the policy admin ring.

UK government compiles exhaustive list of open source alternatives to major software needs.

With cloud, you may simply improve your IT operations, or you may disrupt the entire industry.

Key considerations for building a truly social business, on the inside and outside.

Could Google's Android glasses push the limits of innovation in the insurance industry?

A convergence of tech forces are creating a “new norm” for insurance companies.

Jeremy Lin and confirmation bias: How analytics are finding a sure-fire way to upend the status quo.

Think tank Heartland Institute issues another hyperbolic statement, this time on leaked—and possibly fake—documents containing climate change information.

LIMRA survey of 53 life insurers finds vast majority currently engaged in mobile activity directed at producers.

How agents can use Facebook to reach out to policyholders when they need it most.

As insurers' IT infrastructures become more complex, EA provides a roadmap for technology investment decisions.

Well-executed initiatives in the back office can deliver bottom-line savings, are you up to the task?

In light of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's recent release of cloud guidelines, here are six good reasons to go to cloud and four reasons to be cautious.

Translating technology options into business opportunities the chief concern of CIOs looking to strike the perfect balance.

Which U.S. P&C insurance company will be the first to use a social network as a platform to transact insurance?

As analytics becomes a key competitive differentiator, the skills needed to manage stores of data are in high demand.

As a deadline passes, the Federal Insurance Office’s report on modernizing insurance regulation remains a no-show.

Department of Housing and Urban Development proposal an example of why insurers need to engage evolving regulatory risks, rather than bunker down and weather the current storm.

With all the tools and technologies at our disposal, isn’t it just good sense to hold clients’ contractually accountable for known risk management prevention efforts?

Business-minded as well as tech-savvy, this list points to the efficiencies and shortcuts that accompany the cloud.

While creative disruption can be a factor in insurers’ quest for business growth, getting disruptive requires—careful—thought and planning.

IT professionals reporting major data breaches outline the ways executives become more engaged and supportive of data security efforts in the aftermath.

The use of GPS technology by SIU teams may be moot when looking at how proactive improvements in the claims arena may make a bigger difference.

The aspirations of social media networks to glean larger profits from global user bases could intersect with insurers quest for expanded, universal outreach.

Analytics is the becoming the technology du jour.

The new market demands a nuanced approach to reaching consumers, one that involves subtle tactics using today's networks of influence.

Amazon's recently unveiled NoSQL offering promises to pack a lot of capabilities into the cloud, but does this mean anything to insurers?

Business principles of management dating back 100 years still provide insights into fostering continuous growth and efficiency.

While others have spent millions and billions selling into the enterprise, Apple is almost as ubiquitous as Windows PCs in corporate offices without even trying to be.

Persistent economic, social and environmental risks are conflating to menace insurers.

Charging customers fees to conduct e-commerce is a bad idea and will create scrutiny and ill will; something insurance carriers always need to avoid.

New studies confirm many teenagers and 20-somethings prefer keyboards to dashboards.

Are the majority of insurance commercials trying too hard, and missing the point of marketing as a result?

The potential commoditization of insurance products means companies need to focus on self-service Web presences.

Many positive ways to look at this proactive approach to preventing fraud conducted over social media sites.

Insurance companies are now competing with start-ups and tech-savvy companies for a shrinking pool of IT talent.

Internal use and consumer outreach using social media will undoubtedly persist, but it may take marketers to push the format to flourishing heights.

CIO stress, a Big Data mess and cloud trustworthiness: Five predictions for IT in 2012 and the years beyond.

Without previous levels of investment return, the industry's IT stance remained conservative.

Cheaper, more powerful tools and a new breed of specialists will help insurers better understand their customers and markets in the year ahead.

To properly address the pending changes in health insurance, organizations should have both project management and process management offices in place.

The industry continues to struggle with a bad economy and tough catastrophes, and technology will be asked to do more than ever, but at a reasonable price.