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How to Achieve Organizational Goals With Scenario Planning
Even if they are never laid out in a formal document, every company is going to have strategic goals. After all, no executive is going to say that they don't want their company to grow or otherwise ...
Understanding Social Inflation and What to Do About It
Social inflation has become the buzzword in insurance in recent years, and the exact definition, causes, impact and outlook for the future remain fuzzy to many companies. Social inflation broadly ...
Amazon and Agents: How Did Leaders Read The Tea Leaves?
Back in 2017, Next Insurance CEO Guy Goldstein wasn't envisioning that his InsurTech would launch a portal of insurance agents just two years later. When Carrier Management asked Goldstein, eight ...
While Funding Levels Rise, So Do InsurTech Death Rates
While the aggregate InsurTech funding level for the first-half of 2021 soared past the amount raised for InsurTech businesses for the entire year 2020, InsurTechs continued to quietly shut their ...
Doomed to Fail: Workplace Diversity Without Inclusion
The insurance industry is one of many sectors seeing workplace diversity not progressing fast enough. The percentage of non-white employees in the insurance workforce, for example, stood at 21.4 ...
How Strategy Follows Technology
Any business in any industry is subject to the limitations of the technology available to bring products and services to consumers. The most sophisticated businesses are those that find the most ...
How Reinsurers’ Results Rebounded in First Half 2021 from 2020
The first half financial results reported by a group of six reinsurers over the past week generally show a strong return to profits after last year's challenging market conditions. A wrap-up of these ...
Insurance Withdrawal Puts Sports and Festival Events at Risk
While there was debate about the wisdom of the Tokyo Olympics proceeding as scheduled given the current health conditions, the insurance industry dodged a bullet with the go-ahead. According to ...