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Leveraging new technologies for ISO-based products: Accelerate speed-to-market, reduce costs and capitalize on market opportunities

By Drew Birtwistle On 02.14.2011
Accelerate speed-to-market To capitalize on today’s market opportunities, insurers need to find new ways to streamline, automate and accelerate product development to meet producer and policyholder demands. They need to think differently about how they can leverage bureau content such as ISO loss costs, rules and forms to minimize risk, avoid premium inaccuracies and get products to market faster than their competition. When using ISO product standards, the more quickly and accurately an insurer can get up-to-date loss costs, rules, forms and stat logic into production with company-specific deviations, the faster they can capture market share and increase revenue.
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Success through better policy administration: Building a solid foundation with the correct tools

By Steve Forte On 01.03.2011
Building a solid foundation There have been many articles written on why insurance companies should replace policy administration systems, whether build, buy or outsource is the right implementation option, or why these types of projects so often fail. Those points have been written about and debated ad nauseam and have become something of a moot point for many industry professionals, however, the discussion of strategy, construction and execution should be top of mind for insurance companies considering a policy administration system (PAS) replacement today...
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The insurance tipping point: Innovation and transformation

By Denise Garth On 01.03.2011
The insurance tipping point Considering innovation and insurance together are viewed by many as oxymoronic. While the insurance industry demonstrated innovation during the 1960’s and 1970’s by creating new products, services and distribution methods using technology, innovation slowed measurably. But during this period of innovation, early-adoption fueled growth, expanded customer access and competitive pricing through more efficient operations enabled by technology. This value has diminished due largely to the “Achilles heel” of legacy solutions and models. Once again, innovation and disruption are needed for a new round of competition...
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Industry innovations: A mobile applications interview with Bob Evans

By Editor On 01.03.2011
The mobile apps interview In this installment of industry innovations, we interview Bob Evans, director of Mobile Insurance Solutions at CSC, to learn about mobile applications and how insurers can use them to deliver increased value to customers and propel innovative new business models.
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Insurance gets social: The rise and fall of social media for insurance

By Jennifer Overhulse-King On 06.01.2010
Insurance gets social Despite recent advances in social media by industry leaders such as GEICO and Allstate, insurers as a whole are still largely considered to be dangerously behind the curve in their use of the social web. In this article, Jennifer Overhulse-King, Principal Owner of St. Nick Media Services, posits that utilizing social media is no longer merely an option for insurers, but rather an absolute imperative for those companies that wish to properly manage the modern customer experience. As such, insurers must immediately begin planning and developing strategies and protective measures in order to ensure the effectiveness of social media efforts.
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Billing modernization: Strengthening customer satisfaction to build a competitive advantage

By Kim Morton On 10.01.2009
With customer retention needs at an all time high, insurers are beginning to consider all points of customer contact—including billing—to be uniformly critical. In this article, Kim Morton of Guidewire Software reveals that growth-oriented, service-focused carriers view billing not as a back-office function, but as a key customer touch point. These carriers are willing to make invest-ments in modern billing platforms that have proven to deliver quantifiable business benefits and increase a company’s competitive advantage.
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SERFF liberation: The System for Electronic Rate and Form Filing needs competition

By Eli Lehrer On 10.01.2009
Insurance compliance is deeply rooted in a series of complex and compulsory data standards promulgated by government and industry entities. And until recent years, insurers were allowed the freedom to collect, transmit and store data in any system of their choosing. But this is changing and trouble is brewing, thanks to the rising prominence of the NAIC’s mandatory SERFF system. In this article, Eli Lehrer of the Competitive Enterprise Institute explains the SERFF system in detail, explores problems with its current modes of operation, and suggests changes that would ultimately benefit the insurance industry and state insurance regulators.
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Harnessing network effects: A Web 2.0 primer for the insurance industry

By Josh Struve On 10.01.2009
Network effects The dramatic shift from industrial era practices to those of the information revolution have forced modern businesses into the age of the network economy. As such, insurance companies that accept the network economy, and attempt to understand the art of positive network effects will drastically increase their competitive positioning over those that do not. In this article, Josh Struve, Marketing Manager at Perr&Knight, explores the phenomena of positive network effects and posits that insurance companies can exploit these effects using emergent Web 2.0 technologies.
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P&C underwriting automation: It’s time to optimize and modernize

By Edward Gray On 04.01.2009
Many insurers have contemplated the benefits of underwriting automation, often to the chagrin of the underwriters whose daily jobs involve the selection of appropriate risks. To be sure, automation may never replace the nuances of human judgment; though major process efficiencies can be gained by using underwriting automation to cull bad risks from good. In this article, Edward Gray of FirstBest Systems presents a case for automation, supported by multiple industry surveys that describe what your competitors are thinking – good information in this era of unprecedented uncertainty.
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Do what you do best: How business focus drives technology decisions

By Steve Franklin On 04.01.2008
For those insurance executives facing the classic build-versus buy technology decision, consider this: What business are you in? How important is technology to your competitive positioning? Do you have the resources not only to conceive, build and deploy new technology, but upgrade and maintain in a way to keep pace with technological trends? In this article, VP of US Operations for Wyde Technologies, Steve Franklin, examines these questions and posits that insurance companies would do well to focus on what they do best, and leave technology to technologists.
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    • The insurance tipping point: Innovation and transformation by Denise Garth 01.03.2011:
      Considering innovation and insurance together are viewed by many as oxymoronic. While the insurance industry demonstrated innovation during the 1960’s and 1970’s by creating new products, services and distribution methods using technology, innovation slowed measurably. But during this period of innovation, early-adoption fueled growth, expanded customer access and competitive pricing through more efficient operations enabled by technology. This value has diminished due largely to the “Achilles heel” of legacy solutions and models. Once again, innovation and disruption are needed for a new round of competition......
    • Industry innovations: A mobile applications interview with Bob Evans by Editor 01.03.2011:
      In this installment of industry innovations, we interview Bob Evans, director of Mobile Insurance Solutions at CSC, to learn about mobile applications and how insurers can use them to deliver increased value to customers and propel innovative new business models....
    • Insurance gets social: The rise and fall of social media for insurance by Jennifer Overhulse-King 06.01.2010:
      Despite recent advances in social media by industry leaders such as GEICO and Allstate, insurers as a whole are still largely considered to be dangerously behind the curve in their use of the social web. In this article, Jennifer Overhulse-King, Principal Owner of St. Nick Media Services, posits that utilizing social media is no longer merely an option for insurers, but rather an absolute imperative for those companies that wish to properly manage the modern customer experience. As such, insurers must immediately begin planning and developing strategies and protective measures in order to ensure the effectiveness of social media efforts....
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