Innovation
Silicon Valley Veteran Shaking Up Vertafore
Vertafore is forging new partnerships and shaking up how it develops and deploys new products. A big reason behind these efforts is Greg Wright, the company's new senior vice president of Agency ...
The One Thing Missing From Your Innovation Efforts: A View of Customers ‘In the Wild’
"Innovate or die," the saying goes. But as companies try to sharpen their competitive edge with new product and service ideas, many don't realize that their efforts are fundamentally misguided. ...
XL Unveils Sharia Compliant Equine Cover Through Lloyd’s of London
XL Group has rolled out what it bills as the first Shariah compliant product available through Lloyd's of London – cover for horses. Offered with Cobalt Underwriting (a specialist Shariah compliant ...
AXA Strategic Ventures Invests in a French ‘Big Data’ Startup
AXA Strategic Ventures has made a $1 million investment in the French tech startup company Evercontact, a cloud service that extracts contact information in emails and shares and updates them ...
AIG Plans to Go Global With Commercial Drone Underwriting Strategy
Now there are three. American International Group disclosed it is the latest insurer to win Federal Aviation Administration approval to operate commercial drones, following similar actions with USAA ...
How Wearable Devices Are Disrupting the Insurance Industry
Nearly 50 years after Captain Kirk began using his wrist communicator on the television show "Star Trek," wearable technology is taking hold. From Fitbit to Google Glass, the technology is ...
Innovative Game-Changer or Dud: How to Figure Out Which One is Which
CEOs and managers in companies of every size face this problem all the time: When someone pitches a potentially game-changing idea, how do they know if the innovation has a chance of working? Will it ...
XL Launching VC Initiative to Fund Innovation
XL Group has announced the creation of a new venture capital initiative, XL Innovate. XL Innovate will be financially backed by XL and will invest in companies that have a strategic focus on ...