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Growing for the Future: Insurers Describe Their Leadership Development Programs
Today's executive leadership development programs are morphing from training at the senior level to cultivating the perfect dream team of executive leaders. Insurers now are tapping into the overall ...
Training Tomorrow’s Leaders: An External Perspective
Radostina Purvanova, associate professor of management and international business at Drake University, has a unique perspective on what it takes to be a successful leader in the current economy. ...
Novarica: ‘Agile’ Methodology Is Transforming Insurance Industry IT Development
In the last seven years, the use of agile methodology across the insurance industry has gone from zero to 90 percent. The agile model, a newer software development approach, involves more ...
The IoT Revolution: Coming to a Warehouse and a Theme Park Near You
Privacy risks related to potential hacks of Internet-connected devices are hot topics for carriers, risk managers and brokers, but possible business interruption losses should not be overlooked when ...
12 Essential Skills and Practices for the Leaders of Today and Tomorrow
What makes for a strong and sound leader? There invariably are a number of leadership archetypes: the charismatic leader, the paternal leader, the collegiate leader, the narcissistic leader—just to ...
Cultivating Leadership to Drive Business Results
Like many companies, we favor the concept of promoting from within for leadership positions. However, when we took a closer look at the makeup of our leadership team a few years ago, we realized we ...
‘B’ Is for Behavioral: What Big Data Means for Insurance
Big data is one of the signature issues of our time—and also one of the more poorly understood. Discussions of the topic often are clouded by what I call the "two dogmas of big data." The first is ...
Objects In Mirror May Be Closer Than They Appear
I have a CD player in my relatively new luxury sports sedan. It plays five—or maybe six—CDs so I can be surrounded by music I choose and like all through even a reasonably long journey. Or maybe ...