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Leaders Review Failures, Successes and Joint Innovation Efforts
Failing to innovate is no longer an option in the property/casualty insurance industry, according to leaders who say that a tolerance for ill-timed or less-than-perfect product launches is better ...
How Progressive, Assurant and Others Innovated Their Innovation Processes
While culture is the central ingredient in the innovation recipes of most property/casualty insurers, strategy games and idea labs are among the more novel approaches P/C leaders describe when asked ...
P/C Insurers Blocking Their Own Roads to Innovation
Property/casualty insurers face a number of external obstacles on the road to delivering more innovative products and reimagining their operations, but the ones that really get in the way come from ...
Industry ‘Groping in Dark’ to Attract Millennials, Duperreault Says
Boring is not a description of the insurance industry that sits well with Brian Duperreault. But it's one that the majority of millennials use to explain why insurance has little appeal as a career ...
Industry Consolidation: Too Fast for Some
There are many reasonable and compelling factors driving the ongoing consolidation of the property/casualty insurance industry, from a sheer overabundance of capital to an overwhelming need to reduce ...
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 ...