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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.

In the face of the NTSB's recommended ban, auto manufacturers are gung-ho about adding more connectivity in the car.

Off-the-shelf consumer devices present conveniences for IT staffs and employees alike, but the list of potential risks they present warrants concern.

Insurers are skeptical about the cloud, but new developments could lend hope to a secure future.

The industry's struggle to assess and implement the right technologies at the right time.

As IT budgets begin to recover, storage and file recovery are hot items.

New survey shows savings from cloud computing are barely making a dent in corporate IT budgets. Is it time to rethink the approach?

After its first public event, the magnitude of the task facing the Federal Insurance Office becomes apparent.

Keeping property repair rates down requires not only proper initial assessment, but occasional re-evaluations from an underwriting perspective as well.

Potentially simpler interconnectivity and cheaper information dissemination processes could make insurers, and insureds' wallets, very happy.

New survey puts insurance companies at the bottom of the list in terms of consumer-friendliness on the Web.

Risks continue to outweigh the benefits when it comes to implementing technologies of convenience behind the wheel.

Fledgling social network offers unique potential if search engine personalization comes to fruition.

Many companies still operate in the dark while unknown numbers of customers are turned away by websites suffering slow or tedious processes.

Despite pressure to upgrade and leave legacy systems behind, COBOL has remained not only relevant, but common among IT systems within the industry.

10 years after the original call for agile business philosophies, where are insurers prevailing and what do they have yet to learn?

Competition and customer expectations leave little room for error when it comes to website performance, and that pressure only increases with customers using mobile platforms.

With a bearish market persisting, IT is expected to deliver miracles without the luxury of economic hardship as an excuse.

Life insurers need to craft mitigation strategies for a prolonged low-rate environment.

Properly going through the steps leading up to an IT project, means that by the time actual work begins, the battle should be more than half over.

Where do you draw the line between distributed servers and mainframes? Is there even a line anymore?

Recent suit filed in Sacramento should serve as a reminder that when it comes securing data, there is no room for error.

The conveniences of small size outweigh certain impracticalities as tablets and smartphones enamor insurance executives and agents.

Some say social media can serve as a comfortable setting for learning and receiving encouragement from others suffering similar circumstances, but how can patients verify the information's integrity?

Here's a lesson on how to assess IT performance by connecting it with business results...