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Recent survey recognizes that security extends well beyond IT among best-practice companies.

America’s first CIO Vivek Kundra offers lessons learned while working with enflamed costs and an IT budget of $80 billion.

Between leadership, marketing and operational tactics, certain approaches and mindsets are needed to avoid the pitfalls of the post-recession market.

Cloud is on everyone's radar—but not yet in everyone's data center.

CIOs enter the spotlight as insurers look to navigate new market terrain controlled by consumer wants and needs.

Instead of trying to bunker your systems, Deutsche Bank's head of IT security urges open, frank discussions as the best resolution to security issues.

The success of straight-through processing and product development upgrades relies heavily upon operations adjustments.

Potential consumers already believe they need more coverage, however, they need to be approached just the right way.

A well-grounded IT architectural approach provides the agility required to foster rapid growth.

The relationship between carriers and agents thrives on technological initiatives that simplify communicating and transferring information.

Applications, data security, hidden costs; here are the pros and cons of engaging or resisting a cloud migration.

Technology is rapidly transforming human interaction into informal communications, how can the insurance industry react?

Cloud, mobility and analytics require a focused, enterprise approach—here's how to deliver.

What information to seek out before purchasing an enterprise upgrade and how to find it.

Cloud storage and analytic capabilities could reassign the health insurance industry to the role of data intelligence intermediary.

Monitoring performance and financials before integration is completed can provide invaluable insights down the road.

For one insurance company, a hurricane inspired IT managers to build a better business continuity solution.

Customer engagement and why you need to start catering to the next wave of tech-savvy, demanding insurance consumers.

Three measures of a customer’s worth using analytics that might lead you to question age-old business paradigms.

These tools and methodologies, such as Hadoop and MapReduce, can help insurers unlock the real potential of Big Data.

Social media's versatility makes it impossible to assess objectively, but there are many examples of companies employing different strategies very effectively.

The carrier's first foray into the cloud came with security concerns that lead to more in-house control over compliance solutions.

Depending on how insurers utilize the nudge, it can either enhance or undermine customer service credentials.

Apple's presence in the enterprise is expected to grow still more pervasive in 2012.

It's easy to become servants to your technology—for agents, making technology work for you is key.

'Bring your own device' means more productivity and better service to customers, but are they secure enough?

Can insurers try to leverage social data to open up a new market? If so, would that affect the value of that data for claims/underwriting purposes?

Data security threats evolve even as organizations successfully lock down their systems.

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.