Strategy
Tips for CEOs Leading a Digital Transformation
Digital transformation requires new ways of working, not just new technology. CEOs must be able to learn from digital natives, improvise, be agile and enable autonomy, says a new article from Boston ...
InsurTech: Win-Win for Insurance Distribution Chain and Carriers
Fears about InsurTech startups disrupting the property/casualty insurance industry in ways that will undermine the distribution system and adversely impact underwriters are growing along with the ...
Markel Combines Wholesale and Global Arms Into Single Unit, With Efficiency in Mind
Markel Corp., in a bid to boost innovation and competitiveness, combined its Wholesale and Global arms into one entity to be known as Markel Assurance. Wholesale consists of excess and surplus lines ...
W.R. Berkley Makes Entertainment/Sports, Environmental Into Separate Operating Units
W.R. Berkley Corp. said it has formed two new independent operating units out of what was one division. The commercial lines insurer and reinsurer said Berkley Entertainment & Sports and Berkley ...
Find Ways to Innovate Where You Live
Not looking a gift horse in the mouth is generally accepted as a good idea, but it's not always easy to recognize the gift horse. With that famously accurate hindsight, it's easy to see that Grinnell ...
New Consumer Tech Drives Opportunities for Novel Personal Insurance Products: Conning
Innovation often opens the door to new products that would never have been possible. Conning asserts in a new report that this is happening with personal lines insurance, thanks to consumers' ...
Today’s Insurance Talent Model and the Power of Diverse Thought
Tomorrow's innovative business solutions will be built today, and most successfully by those who can quickly embrace the talent diversity needed to realize them. Innovation, however, isn't possible ...
Greenlight Capital Re Brings on Ex-SAC Re CEO Burton as New Leader
Greenlight Capital Re tapped a veteran Bermuda reinsurance executive as its new chief executive officer. Simon Burton is slated to become CEO of the hedge fund/specialist reinsurer as of July 1, 2017 ...