Innovation
Innovation Lessons From the Flock
There's fowl knocking at my kitchen door; an impatient staccato, it pauses, expectant like a breath held, then resumes. They know I am in here. I know what they want. The tapping pecks away at my ...
The Next Frontier: Praedicat Soaring Into Liability Cat-Modeling Space
For insurers today, emerging risks are like comets were to the ancients: harbingers of doom of mysterious origin. The Romans thought the gods sent a comet to mark the passing of Julius Caesar. Today, ...
Progressive’s BIG Idea on 2015 InformationWeek Top 100 Tech Innovator List
Auto insurer Progressive announced last week that the company has been included on a list of 100 top business technology innovators in the United States, earning the honor for its Business Innovation ...
Driverless Cars Seen as Inevitable Game-Changer For Insurance and Transportation
Picture a work day that begins like this: You step out of your house and into a self-driving vehicle, which carries you comfortably and safely to your office while you read the newspaper. After ...
London Market: Center of Innovation or Stagnation?
When you think about the insurance market in London, one name tends to come to mind—Lloyd's of London. How something that started off as a coffee shop became such a global institution is a tale ...
Can Karen Clark Move Forward the Cat Modeling Industry She Helped Create?
Karen Clark scored a bonafide first when she launched catastrophe modeling company Applied Insurance Research (AIR) in 1987. With a focus on computer simulations, it was the only operation of its ...
Leadership Insight: Karen Clark
Clark on Catastrophe Modeling: "The tricky thing about cat modeling is it is not all about the science and not all about the software. It is about having the right mix and then making sure that ...
Chubb’s CIO: ‘Innovation is a Muscle’ That Must Be Trained
For those of you who missed it, Carrier Management interviewed Chubb Chief Innovation Officer Jon Bidwell during an April 22 Twitter chat focusing on Bidwell's thoughts on innovation and how to spark ...