Leadership & Strategy
Building an Effective IT Strategy
When it comes to IT strategies, they should persist over time. The amount of time is a bit different for every organization, but as a rule of thumb, if the IT strategy changes every year or two, ...
Business Comes Before Family for One-Third of Workers; CEOs Can Change the Stats: Deloitte Study
A new survey of more than 1,000 full time workers finds that even though nearly half say their organizations value their life outside for work, nearly one-third of the employees put their work ...
Industry On Track for Third Straight Underwriting Profit; 2016 a Closer Call
The property/casualty insurance industry will report an underwriting profit for the third consecutive year in 2015—a streak unmatched since the early 1970s, according to analysts at Fitch Ratings, ...
The Three Metrics That Matter Most for Managing Litigated Claims Costs
Insurers place major importance on measuring the costs for litigated files, according to a new LexisNexis industry survey. A sizable majority of respondents say that metrics such as average case ...
Back to the Future: How Claims Execs Can Use Analytics to Become Experts on Their Pasts
Claims and legal executives have never felt more pressure to focus on the future. You're constantly being told to innovate. You keep hearing it: If you don't use technology to predict the future, ...
Peer-to-Peer Insurance Startup Attracts Funding from Silicon Valley’s Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital, a California venture firm better known for funding technology or industry game-changers including Apple, Cisco and YouTube, has put its money behind a property/casualty insurance ...
Corporate Holiday Giving: Real Commitment or Window Dressing?
When chief executives of property/casualty insurance carriers wholeheartedly commit to corporate giving programs, the benefits can extend beyond helping worthy nonprofit organizations, a public ...
Small-Business Insurers Looking to Direct Channel: Deloitte Survey
The small-business segment is a market in transition, with a number of insurers starting to follow the lead of their personal auto counterparts by seeking to sell direct to customers rather than ...