Insure Think

With the economy continuing to suck wind, vendors, too, need to find ways to get more value out of what they produce.

Expert believes it’s more about communication and less about alignment.

A new study and some Congressional testimony reinforce the difference a CEO’s abilities have on company performance.

A new report says PC shipments will diminish over the rest of this year due to a sluggish economy, but maybe people are just tired of large boxes.

Car insurance has been on the market since 1897—six years after the first recorded car accident.

Hyper-social product development and innovation are the next frontier for insurance companies.

Insurers should ensure that the Web portals being used to simplify transactions with agents and customers don't make things harder on them.

Bounties on defects make a lot of fiscal sense.

How do increased automation and the advent of “swarms” fit in an industry that seriously values its personal interactions and relationships?

If U.S. and European governments don’t address their chronic deficit and debt problems soon, we may see a major nation’s economy fail in the next five years.

Effective distribution management strategies result in 65% adoption rate among growing demographic.

Tracing the history of insurance through the ages, the practice of transferring risk in exchange for money really began to take hold between the 14th and 17th centuries.

Perhaps the answer is to take user-empowered networking and secure it with user empowerment.

Academics and security vendors say they uncovered Windows vulnerabilities months ago; what did Microsoft know?

From the ancient Chinese to the Babylonians, Greeks and Romans, the insurance industry can trace its history back to the beginnings of our civilization.

To ensure effective change within an organization, C-level executives need to cultivate leaders at the business unit level.

A key benefit of having a common MDM repository is enhanced customer support and increased customer loyalty.

New drives are smaller than a postage stamp with no moving parts.

There are many avenues open for insurers to either migrate or modernize legacy systems to bring them up to code.

What have we learned in the past 18 months? In an industry where confidence, stability and trust are critical, we must strive to do better.

The government of India may shut down BlackBerry and other messaging services for security reasons, but is wireless technology really the problem?

Compliance only seems to be stepping up, as governments require more information and accountability from enterprises.

Toshiba drives offer auto-erasing of sensitive data on shutdown, but their limits have yet to be tested.

Still slow to catch on in the United States, bancassurance is quickly becoming a major distribution channel in Asian markets.

Containerized data centers may be a viable option for insurers that want to keep their servers in-house, while keeping their purse strings tight.

In this time of economic uncertainty, should auto insurers align themselves with Big Brother approaches to catching the uninsured?

Technology may some day enable cars to sense danger and avoid it, but how will this affect auto insurance?

Employing business transaction management practices is a good starting place.

Understanding your customers and their traits is only the first step.

The innovative app took social networking to new levels, but failed to make it relevant to the humans who tried it.

Grinding out a meaningful cost-benefit analysis is nothing new, but it is the only way to be certain that the varied benefits to your organization outweigh the costs.

Definitions and interpretations aside, an effective SOA deployment can lay the groundwork for cloud formations.

The negative public perception of the industry only compounds insurers’ challenges to hiring new employees.

An apparent shift in criminals’ strategies toward poorly protected banking services should spark concern, but does it?

License revocations and opprobrium are the inevitable results of those who are seen as having taken advantage of service members or their families.

Many insurers are now securing their databases by "data masking," which removes confidential data elements and replaces them with usable, fictitious data.

Who thought the entertainment industry might be in a position to liberate insurers from an unrelenting bad rap?

Insurers must devise a plan to communicate with aggregators, properly utilize agents and create an effective multi-channel management strategy.

Social networking and BPM could create a new approach to collaboration across organizations.

Enterprise managers are keeping their cards close to the vest as they wait for the economy to show more definite signs of recovery.

The first ripples from regulatory reform are already being felt.

The business often asks crazy things of IT, but sometimes that craziness can lead to creativity.

Some think mobile devices are the rising stars while PCs are legacy toast. But is that true for insurers?

Survey data reveal that IT employees are more confident about a number of things—including finding employment elsewhere.

The concerns of Japanese insurers are very similar to those of their North American counterparts.

Many business and IT initiatives fail because decision-making responsibilities are given to under-skilled or under-talented managers who wind up making bad decisions.

Investments can be made in one area, but if other related areas are forgotten, the initial investment's benefits may be less than expected.

Giving customers what they want seems like a no-brainer, but where do we draw the line between service and servitude?

Effective deployment of information technology will be a difference-maker for insurers.

Imagine the benefit of agents logging in and accessing application processing or customer verification services, or internal departments helping with claims processing or adjusters in the field.

To reach consumers, the confectioner, like many insurers lately, is eschewing traditional e-mail marketing in favor of social media.

Black Hat was set to expose Chinese cyber-attack capabilities until big-money agencies stepped in to silence them.