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      • Lincoln Financial Group Names New VP & Managing Director Of Portfolio Management Analytics
        By Kathy Burger | May 21, 2013
        Credit risk management expert Paul Narayanan most recently headed Credit Risk Analytics at AIG Property Casualty.
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      • Agile Financial Management: Re-visioning the Budget Process
        By Peter Witham, UNIT4 Business Software | May 15, 2013
        To create an accurate budget you need visibility into a single set of data and the ability to see clear across your organization – regardless of geographic locations, currencies, and other barriers.
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      • Insurance CIOs Should Turn Conventional Transformational Wisdom on its Head
        By Anthony O'Donnell | May 03, 2013
        X by 2's Ram Sundaram says insurers pursuing IT transformation should do the opposite of five rules that represent conventional wisdom.
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      • Insurance IT Pros Satisfied Despite Flat Salaries
        By Peggy Bresnick Kendler | May 01, 2013
        Insurance IT pros aren't seeing huge salary increases, but job satisfaction is high and opportunities abound for those with a passion for the business, our research shows.
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      • Conning/RASL Alliance Aims at Alternative Investment Strategies for Insurers
        By Anthony O'Donnell | April 29, 2013
        The firms have adopted a "unique" approach will provide exposure to sources of return traditionally available only to investors in hedge funds but with significantly lower fees and capital charges as well as greater transparency and liquidity.
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      • Q&A: Republic Indemnity CIO Innovates on a Tight Budget
        By Anthony O'Donnell | April 29, 2013
        Rao Tadepalli, CIO of Republic Indemnity, has found ways to innovate in a resource-constrained environment, finding efficiencies through digitizing documentation and improving efficiencies through core system transformation and process reengineering.
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      • A CIO’s First 100 Days: Seven Steps to SuccessSlideshow Article
        By Anthony O'Donnell | April 26, 2013
        New York Life’s senior managing director and chief information officer in the company’s Investments Group recommends seven stages to complete a successful first 100 days, leading to longer-term success.
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      • Managing Marketing's IT Spend
        By Nathan Golia | April 25, 2013
        With so much marketing budget devoted to technological initiatives, IT needs a clear strategy to effectively manage those digital marketing dollars.
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      • Consider Both Costs and Benefits of Life Platform Modernization
        By Brian DeMaster, Accenture | April 15, 2013
        Life insurers contemplating platform need to have a clear view of the implications, and a well-defined, realistic road map as they weigh the considerable benefits.
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      • Technology and History Accelerate Insurers' Risk Management Evolution
        By Anthony O'Donnell | April 11, 2013
        Insurance chief risk officers are rising to greater prominence within their organizations as regulation and technological possibilities drive rapid evolution of risk quantification technology and techniques.
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      • Specialty Insurers' Top 5 Tech Priorities
        By Nathan Golia | April 02, 2013
        A Novarica report indicates where specialty insurers are spending their IT budget.
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      • Maintaining Credibility in Project Estimation: Beware the Fudge Factor
        By Bruce F. Broussard, Jr., Insurity | April 01, 2013
        Project managers should focus on four key areas in order to successfully navigate the delicate balance between practical and preposterous project estimating.
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      • Sorting Vendors into Piles: The Proper Role of an RFP
        By Russ Bostick and Donn Vucovich, MVP Advisory Group | March 26, 2013
        The decision to issue an effective RFP primarily lies in an organization’s ability to answer five questions clearly.
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      • Big Data Not Yet A Best Practice In Insurance
        By Kathy Burger | March 20, 2013
        Big data is a hot topic across the insurance industry, but many carriers are stymied by the challenges of making a business case for the types of systems and infrastructure investments required to support a big data strategy, says Martina Conlon, a principal in the insurance practice of Novarica.
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      • IT’s Record of Failure Is Worse Than You Think
        By Anthony O'Donnell | March 14, 2013
        The record revealed by investigations into IT performance is bad. Unfortunately, according to author and former Guardian Life CIO Frank Wander, the truth is even worse.
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      • Nationwide CMO: 'I Have Double-Digit Million Dollars in IT Projects'
        By Nathan Golia | March 14, 2013
        Nationwide's EVP and CMO Matt Jauchius took Insurance & Technology through his process for managing marketing IT spend.
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      • What Should Be on the P&C Agenda for 2013
        By Michael A. Costonis, Accenture | March 11, 2013
        Whether through formal committees or ad hoc work groups, P&C insurers should have these four topics featured prominently on agenda for 2013.
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      • IT Spending Expected To Grow 5% In Financial Services
        By | March 06, 2013
        A new IDC report shows that as the economy stabilizes, financial firms will spend more on technology in 2013.
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      • Conning/Milliman Partnership Boosts Economic Capital Modeling
        By Anthony O'Donnell | March 05, 2013
        Linking Milliman’s MG-ALFA system with Conning’s GEMS Economic Scenario Generator will respond to regulators’ and raters increasing demand for stochastic modeling capabilities and foster a holistic approach to risk management.
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      • Ex-Infosys Exec Says Outsourcing Billing Should Be Based on Outcomes
        By Harichandan Arakali and Sumeet Chatterjee, Reuters | February 22, 2013
        A former Infosys Ltd executive is challenging the IT outsourcing industry's billing model by charging for results instead of basing fees on the time and labour put in by the armies of staff working for India's big firms.

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      • Dubai Financial Hub Sees Growth in Asia, Africa Business
        By Andrew Torchia, Reuters | February 14, 2013
        The Dubai International Financial Centre, a business zone, says it aims to double the number of companies there over five years by serving as a base for business with China, south Asia and Africa, not merely the Gulf.

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      • Realizing Insurance IT Value Requires New Tools, New Mindset
        By Bruce Brodie and Paul Frank, PwC | February 12, 2013
        Insurers typically spend three to five percent of their revenue on IT, but they spend only a very small fraction of that on determining if they are maximizing their investment. That needs to change.
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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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      • 5 Years, 5 Top Disruptors, One 800lb Analytic Gorilla - Novarica Study
        By Anthony O'Donnell | February 01, 2013
        Big Data and analytics are implicated in four of the respondents' top five business disruptors and explicitly identified as comprising the fifth.
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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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