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      • Selective Appoints New CIO
        By Kathy Burger | May 09, 2013
        Gordon Gaudet, most recently director and co-lead of Deloitte Consulting's Insurance Core Systems Transformation practice, will have responsibility for all IT operations at the P&C insurer.
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      • MphasiS Launches Billing-as-a-Service for Insurance Industry
        By Anthony O'Donnell | May 07, 2013
        The solution will help carriers reduce costs while increasing business flexibility, improving customer service, the vendor asserts.
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      • What Commercial Insurers Can Learn from Manufacturers
        By Gail McGiffin, Ernst & Young LLP | May 06, 2013
        Advances in the manufacturing industry provide a model for insurers to build innovative products.
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      • ACORD Names Chief Standards Officer
        By Kathy Burger | April 23, 2013
        Former Zurich General Insurance executive Monique Hesseling joins the industry standards group as VP and chief standards officer, a new position.
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      • Genworth Life Reduces Policy Cycle Times Nearly 70%
        By Anne Rawland Gabriel | April 19, 2013
        Genworth U.S. Life Companies reduces new policy cycle times from about 25 days to an average of eight by adopting Aplifi's multi-carrier electronic settlement platform.
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      • Xuber Launches in U.S. in Response to Demand for Modern Commercial Lines Solutions
        By | April 17, 2013
        The software business of Xchanging is offering an end-to-end module-based solution built on a single data model.
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      • Making Claims Data Actionable for Litigation Management
        By Hans Bengard, TyMetrix | April 10, 2013
        Implementing a consolidated litigation management solution helps insurers trim claim expense costs, streamline and automate workflows, and enforce best practices throughout the claims discipline.
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      • Business Frameworks – Transformational Acceleration Pedal
        By Pierre Gagné, Insurance Frameworks Inc. | April 08, 2013
        Over the last few years, there has been increasingly industry buzz about capability models, enterprise business frameworks, reference models, etc. What are they, how can organizations benefit from them, and what types of projects can leverage them?
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      • You Need to Replace Your Policy Admin System — But Are You Ready?
        By Andy Scurto, ISCS | March 13, 2013
        Deciding that the time is right for core policy system replacement isn’t the same as being ready to do so, but mistaking the two is a common trap for insurers to fall into.
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      • What Matters in IT: Part 3, Business Impact of Architecture for Continuous Migration (ACM)
        By Ravi Koka, Polaris Financial Technology | March 08, 2013
        The paramount IT tasks for every firm should be to shift to the most agile possible approach for dealing with legacy issues, thereby reducing legacy spending, and then devote the freed-up funds to innovation instead of to overhead.
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      • Insurance Customer Diversity Means Increased Expectations, Opportunities
        By Denise Garth, Innovation Group | February 10, 2013
        To determine growth opportunities, insurers need to gain customer insight on the varying heterogeneous segments within existing and new markets.
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      • What Matters in IT, Part 2: Solving Legacy with ACM
        By Ravi Koka, Polaris Financial Technology | February 08, 2013
        While other approaches may ultimately provide a technical solution, continuous migration is the only practical way to deal with the legacy dilemma.
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      • Making ERM Part of an Insurer's Culture Requires People, Not Just Technology
        By Jeffery Brown, Infogix, Inc. | February 08, 2013
        Effective risk management is not about trying to avoid risk; it is about striking a balance between minimizing risk and maximizing reward.
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      • 2013 a Pivotal Year for Insurance CIOs: Gartner
        By Anthony O'Donnell | January 29, 2013
        Insurance CIOs must begin to address legacy issues and skill deficits in order to be able to meet the service, operational efficiency and profitability demands of the next decade.
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      • Balancing Creativity and Control: Bringing Process Discipline to Predictive Analytics
        By Rachel Alt-Simmons, SAS | January 21, 2013
        As competitive pressures increase the need for organizations to master analytics, internal analytic teams have increased their statistical sophistication, but are struggling to operationalize their insight.
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      • Zurich Taps Pegasystems for Commercial Underwriting Process Solution
        By Anthony O'Donnell | December 21, 2012
        The global insurer seeks to reduce the complexity of its employee work environment in order to enable staff to better serve customers.
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      • What Matters in IT: the Power to Change
        By Ravi Koka, Polaris Financial Technology | December 17, 2012
        How an emerging architectural approach can turn a ‘commodity’ into a strategic weapon.
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      • Manulife's Latest Move to Shore Up John Hancock: Tech Exec Moves to Ops
        By Nathan Golia | November 29, 2012
        Sebastian Pariath led a global IT transformation initiative for Manulife corporate before being named head of the company's US operations at John Hancock.
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      • Insurers See Need to Modernize Claims Capabilities, Cloud Will Help - Accenture Survey
        By Anthony O'Donnell | November 20, 2012
        Insurers have failed to achieve the promise of modern, configurable claims systems in significant measure, but cloud is likely to help carriers to leapfrog to future-proofed modern capabilities that can take advantage of data analytics.
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      • Crum & Forster Sees New Policy Admin System as Key to Growth
        By Kathy Burger | November 09, 2012
        Crum & Forster to deploy Accenture Duck Creek P&C software to help streamline processes, better serve customers and drive growth.
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      • A 12 Point Checklist for Automated Underwriting
        By Gino B. DiGregorio and Charity McGill, Accenture | October 25, 2012
        Automated underwriting systems offer the promise of better information and greater efficiency But insurers considering such systems should prepare a checklist to make sure that the systems address the underwriters’ concerns.
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      • Elite 8 2012: Brian LeClaire Is On A Data-Driven Healthcare Mission
        By Nathan Golia | October 16, 2012
        Humana's Brian LeClaire leads an organization deeply invested in leveraging the power of big data and advanced analytics to improve healthcare outcomes.
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      • Elite 8 2012: Graeme Boddy Accelerates IT Development To Stay Ahead
        By Nathan Golia | October 15, 2012
        For Builders Mutual CIO Graeme Boddy, the recession offered an opportunity to build infrastructure for a new kind of insurance agent and customer. Today, the company is reaping the rewards.
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      • Modernization Choice: Replacement or Future-Proof Environment Leveraging Legacy Assets?
        By Wendy Corman, edgeIPK | October 05, 2012
        Considering the difficulty, length, cost, risk, and project metric failure rate of legacy replacement initiatives, more insurers should consider future-proofing strategies that leverage legacy systems over mere modernization.
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      • Donegal Insurance’s 7 Keys to Successful Acquisitions
        By Sanjay Pandey, CIO, Donegal Insurance Group | September 18, 2012
        Donegal Insurance Group CIO Sanjay Pandey shares seven guidelines that have emerged from the company’s successful technology integration of four new companies acquired during the last four years.
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