Data strategy

Managing this crucial component of data management will help carriers get better results from their analytics, AI and blockchain initiatives.

Analytics skills are in short supply, but demands for data-driven results are not. Here are Forrester’s top tips on how chief data officers can drive business strategy.

Retailers are eyeing health insurers as acquisition targets to improve their pharmacy business, but carriers' information assets and analytics prowess are prizes as well.

While industry observers are excited by the prospect of additional data and tech innovation boosting the company, the reinsurer is cautious.

There’s no shortage of tech solutions coming to market in the insurtech era, but it all comes back to customer wants, panel says.

Carrier leaders are optimistic that they have figured out the best way to navigate digitally driven upheaval in the industry, says PwC survey.

The growth in digital transformation efforts is driving the need for more CDOs. Forrester Research looks at how strategy, governance and execution separate the best from the rest.

Larger, incumbent companies are finally learning the rules of the disruption game, and are coming back stronger than ever.

Carriers are going digital to cut operating costs and break into the younger consumer market, according to a new report from Celent.

Being situationally aware and open to possibilities become the foundation for a world where successes breed future successes.

Incumbents benefit from high barriers to entry, but are themselves less efficient and innovative, Accenture claims.

New technology organization structure aims to improve customer experience, CIO says.

The life insurer’s LifeScore Labs division is ready to make its data tool available to other carriers in the space.

Several top colleges and universities are offering courses and concentrations in applying data to the sector.

Bruce Gifford is selected for the role after serving in the P&C carrier's actuarial department since 2009.

The connected world offers expanded insurance opportunities that can yield billions of dollars in additional revenue, but requires carriers to be more flexible, Accenture says.

Staffing firm TEKsystems finds that new digital initiatives don’t fall within IT’s purview.

The life insurer's unit does more than just provide capital to interesting startups; it also serves an innovation nexus in the company.

Without a clearly articulated set of business value metrics for IT, it can be a challenge for leaders to create compelling business cases for new investment opportunities.

Insurers must consider how to incorporate digital transformation, insurtech and emerging technologies into their business and technology strategies.