Content from Susanne Sclafane
Phase Two of Insurance Innovation: Exploring ‘How-To’ Questions
When Celent's Michael Fitzgerald started asking carrier executives how important innovation was to their business strategies back in 2013, 30-40 percent would say it was "somewhat important" rather ...
Diverse Strategies Lure Innovators to Insurance Players
Innovation within insurance companies requires strategy to make things happen. And strategy is key to recruiting and retaining talent with the skills needed to innovate. What strategies are insurers ...
The Talent Gap Opportunity
There surely is a talent gap in the insurance industry, as direct industry competitors and companies in non-insurance sectors vie to bring on—and keep—people with technology and change management ...
Insurance Execs Put Culture Before Strategy, But Both Anchor Innovation Programs
Insurance carrier and InsurTech executives asked how they spark imagination in their workforces say culture is the anchor. Strategies that include putting Innovation Champions inside the business, ...
Carrier Management Q&A: Hiring and Managing Talent to Spark Imagination
While technology is becoming more affordable, an innovation ingredient that some P/C insurers and reinsurers lack is imagination, according to an industry analyst. Creativity starts with human ...
‘New Recipe’ Could Make Innovation Easier
Two years ago, when Michael Fitzgerald, a senior analyst at Celent, was interviewing Tim Attia, the CEO of Slice Labs, Fitzgerald asked Attia how much it cost to launch the InsurTech's first product. ...
Is Insurance Innovation Disruptive Enough?
Less than 10 percent of insurance carriers responding to a recent survey said they spend more than half their time on "disruptive innovation"—and that 10 percent figure has stayed roughly the same ...
The Future Path Forward: What About Marijuana?
After experts speaking at the Casualty Actuarial Society meeting in November suggested that a future path forward for workers comp insurers to help stem the tide of opioid addiction is to pay for ...