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 | | 2007 Claims Opportunities: Predictive Analytics to the Rescue In 2007 it will be imperative for carriers to establish claims data management initiatives so they can undertake predictive projects. | | Responding to a Changing Market: The Core Is Key Policy administration system replacement is at the top of the list for 2007 for increasing numbers of insurers across nearly all sizes and sectors, according to Matthew Josefowicz, manager of Celent's Insurance Group. | | |
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Take Risk Management and Compliance to the Next Level A seemingly never-ending wave of new compliance directives is perplexing insurance companies around the world regarding how they should respond. Vincent Oliva of Gartner's Industry Advisory Services offers some guidance. | |
An Eye on the Future Industry association executives speculate on the most important issues and challenges facing the insurance industry in 2007. | | |
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Industry Visions 2007: Opportunities and Challenges The world of insurance technology changes slowly, with characteristic concerns of senior technology officers remaining fairly stable year after year. | |
A Great Leap Forward If insurance systems have demonstrated a gradual evolution over the past several years, the industry may be on the verge of a spurt of development more closely resembling famed biologist Stephen Jay Gould's notion of "punctuated equilibrium." | | |
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CIOs at the Crossroads Russ Bostick, Senior Vice President, CIO, Conseco (Carmel, Ind.) Legacy Systems, Legacy Workforce Marcus Ryu, VP, Strategy and New Products, Guidewire Software (San Mateo, Calif.) Winning a Zero-Sum Game John Lucker, Principal, Deloitte Consulting (Hartford) Leveraging Outsourcing for Business Transformation Mike Ura, Vice President, Global Life BPO Services, CSC (El Segundo, Calif.) Adaptable Technologies Roy Nicolosi, CTO, ISO (Jersey City, N.J.) It's Still About the Customer James M. Kerr, Principal, Kerr Consulting Group (Hartford) Application Renovation: Calling Vendors' Bluff Chuck Johnston, Senior Director, Insurance Industry Strategy, Oracle (Redwood Shores, Calif.) Balance the Strategic With the Operational Piyush Singh, CIO, Great American (Cincinnati) | |
Future Proofing the Insurance Enterprise John Burke, Vice President of Insurance Solutions, SAP America (Newtown Square, Pa.) Look to the Long-Term Jim Rourke, Chief Marketing Officer, AdminServer (Chester, Pa.) Wireless, Real Time And Online Rod Travers, Senior Vice President, Robert E. Nolan Company (Dallas) Available Technologies Support Innovation Bill Bloom, Senior Vice President and CIO, St. Paul Travelers (St. Paul) The Keys to Establishing Business Value Mike Adler, Global Leader, IBM Global Business Services (Armonk, N.Y.) 'A Product in a Day' Doug Roller, CEO, Duck Creek Technologies (Bolivar, Mo.) It's a 'Buy' World Paul McDonnell, SVP, Managing Director and Insurance Segment Leader, BearingPoint (McLean, Va.) Content Management And BPM Converge Chris Smith, VP, Research and Development, Whitehill Technologies (Moncton, NB, Canada) | | |
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From The Editor Back to the Future One of the most interesting things about smart and successful insurance technology executives is that they typically combine confidence and pride with a realistic and almost wry sense of both technology and human limitations. Update Understanding the Online Customer BCBSKC Boosts Site Performance Online Transformation Flying High Se Habla Español Contract News Alliances and Partnerships Names in the news Executive News Markel Gets the Right Stuff Aon's Dail Straddles Worlds |