Innovating Insurance
A few weeks ago, I mentioned an upcoming IBM Institute for Business Value study, and now it is available: “Innovating insurance: Lessons from the world’s leading innovators”. Insurance has...
View ArticleSneak Peek: Cyberrisk and Cyberinsurance
The release of our upcoming study on the risks of digital interconnectedness, a.k.a. cyberrisks, is just 5 weeks away; time to give our readers a first peek at some of the data and/or conclusions. For...
View ArticleHow to Create Industry-Leading Digital Customer Engagement
At Amplify 2016, I attended several insurance-focused sessions, including hosting an industry dinner. I came away from the conference with three key observations: Insurers are eager to use mobile to...
View ArticleAnother Sneak Peek at Cyberrisk and -insurance
In two weeks, I will be at the IASA Annual Conference in San Antonio, Texas. I’ll be on Panel 674, talking about “True Customer Centricity” (and our 2015 study, “Capturing hearts, minds and market...
View ArticleLooking into the Crystal Ball
Are you interested in knowing the future? I certainly would – the more accurate, the better. (Next week’s winning lottery numbers, anyone?) Unfortunately, as the old Danish proverb goes, “Prediction is...
View ArticleIs data gold, or your kryptonite?
If you are an insurer, ask yourself this question: Are your customers sharing data with you? (If you aren’t you probably are customer of insurance, so just ask it the other way around.) Most likely,...
View ArticleInsurtechs – friend or foe of insurers?
How often have you heard the thought leaders claiming “this time it is different – this time, the insurance industry is REALLY being disrupted.” The latest chapter is the insurtech business – flexible,...
View ArticleSneak peek: Is the industry ready for insurance platforms?
Next week, we will be releasing a new IBM Institute for Business Value study on the insurance industry. Titled “The platform-fueled future,” we surveyed 1,000 insurers across 35 countries on various...
View ArticleThe platform-fueled insurance future
As announced in my preview post last week, the IBM Institute for Business Value has just released our main insurance study for 2018, titled “The platform fueled-future: New ways to differentiate in a...
View ArticleHow can insurers stay relevant when insurance ceases to be mandatory?
Insurance and insurers have been around for millennia, with modern insurance starting in the U.K. more than 300 years ago. For much of this time, incumbent insurers have been protected from competition...
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