Maintaining your car can need a great deal of time and money. "Regular maintenance of your car can help you save bigger car problems in the future" says Ellsworth Buck, V . p . of Insurance, Florida's biggest independent car insurance agency. In fact, AAA reports that most roadside trouble...

Which creates an intriguing possibility to have an insurance company — an alternative choice to bricks and mortar and company cars and salaries, an online claims operation! Of course, you will find third-party administrators (TPAs) which are large and well-developed enough to offer complete, end-to-end claims management and fulfillment services...

History has witnessed different technology revolutions: the commercial revolution within the late 1700s, the information and telecommunications revolution within the mid 1900s and also the digital revolution of the present. Each revolution has taken advantage of the brand new technologies of its day, creating disruption, innovation and business transformation. Businesses...

Early in November 2021, immediately following the release of the SMA research report Crowdsourcing and Open Innovation: Powering the Sharing Economy, which explored the shared economy and its implications for insurance, I received an interesting email in the CEO of a shared shipping start-up. The CEO stated, "I just wanted...

"Innovate or die," the old saying goes. But as companies try to sharpen their competitive edge with new product and repair ideas, many don't understand their work is fundamentally misguided. That's as their innovation process is usually missing one essential ingredient: their customers. Companies establish innovation incubators and idea labs....

In my role as market connector, I constantly meet people with all sorts of job titles, many of which didn't exist even a couple of years ago. Some reflect a "cool" factor a lot more than substance. Others signal strategic intent translated into an organizational decision. Recently, there's been a...

Comparison is based on performance of equally weighted, annually readjusted stock portfolios of Customer Experience Leaders and Laggards relative to the S&P 500 Index. Leaders outperformed the broader market, establishing a total return that was 35 points greater than the S&P 500 Index. Laggards trailed far behind, posting an overall...

When you are looking at successfully engaging with a brand new generation of consumers (and employees), there's very little doubt that insurers have their work eliminate on their behalf. There can be hardly any doubt that members of the Millennial generation generally consider insurance to become boring and that reputation...

What used to be sci-fi is quickly becoming a fact of today's business community. Computers that mimic the human brain already are entering the workforce within the healthcare, financial services and retail sectors, amongst others. Like humans, cognitive analytic computers can understand "natural" language (for example English) and learn lessons...

The concept of the single view of the customer has existed for ages. I remember some significant single-view projects of insurers in the early 1990s. Many insurers have continued to strive toward this elusive goal. Now that the client experience is in the forefront in insurers' strategies, you're ready to...