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  • Infrastructure
    • Top Story

      Tech Must Play Critical Role in Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Debut
      Start up ventures without legacy burdens enjoy a great opportunity for a forward-looking management team to really embed analytics and digital communications into their strategy, but others can leverage technology for specialty success, suggests Martina Conlon, Novarica.
    • Architecture/Infrastructure News

      • Bring Your Own Service: The Next Wave in Collaboration?
      • A Comeback for Native Mobile Apps in Insurance?
      • Insurance CIOs Are Reshaping Their IT Organizations to Fit the Times
      More Architecture/Infrastructure News
    • Quick Links

      • Application Performance: A New Competitive Advantage in Insurance
      • 4 Things Insurers Really Want from Mobile
      • 3 Reasons Insurance Carriers Should Bet on Mobile Technology
      • Managing Marketing's IT Spend
  • Policy Administration
    • Top Story

      4 Key Benefits of SaaS Automated Systems for Life Insurers
      The potential benefits of automated systems for new business and underwriting – in terms of speed, accuracy, cost reduction and improved service – make for a compelling value proposition.
    • Policy Administration News

      • Most Insurers Seek Integrated Core Platform: SAP Survey
      • The Philadelphia Contributorship Chooses ISCS SurePower Innovation Suite
      • FirstBest Integrates Verisk Data with Underwriting Suite
      More Policy Administration News
    • Quick Links

      • Underwriting Technology Matures: The Birth and Rise
      • What Commercial Insurers Can Learn from Manufacturers
      • Insurance CIOs Should Turn Conventional Transformational Wisdom on its Head
      • After a Decade of M&A, CFG Emerges Unified on Sapiens ALIS Policy Administration System
  • Claims
    • Top Story

      Gartner: Personal Loss Control Could Reduce Losses 20% by 2015
      What a new Gartner report terms "active loss prevention" could usher in a new era of insurer/policyholder cooperation in the prevention of loss of property and person — potentially reshaping consumers' perception of the value of the insurance industry.
    • Claims News

      • Most Insurers Seek Integrated Core Platform: SAP Survey
      • National Western Life Replaces Existing eApp With StoneRiver LifeApply
      • MEDfx Gets Michigan Designation as SSA Disability eClaims Tech Provider
      More Claims News
    • Quick Links

      • Application Performance: A New Competitive Advantage in Insurance
      • 10 Top Tweets from #IASA2013
      • IASA Trend Watch: Mobile
      • Insurer Says Blue Cod Solution Stood Test of Super Storm Sandy
  • Management Strategies
    • Top Story

      Northwestern Mutual’s Enterprise Venture Fund Drives New Tech Adoption
      The Milwaukee, Wisc.-based life insurer has taken the risk out of leading-edge technology exploration by creating a dedicated fund and project team.
    • Management Strategies News

      • Farmers Taps Yahoo Vet to Lead Digital Strategy
      • Travelers Acquires Dominion of Canada
      • Aegon Appoints Americas Exec Global CTO
      More Management Strategies News
    • Quick Links

      • IASA Trend Watch: Mobile
      • Jackson National Life's Rapid Growth Drives Facilities, IT Expansion
      • 5 Market Forces Driving Change in Insurance Carriers' Strategy — Deloitte
      • AXA's New Life HQ Places Premium on Innovation
  • Risk Management
    • Top Story

      Video: Sentry Takes Risk Management Portal Mobile
      The mobile version of Sentry Insight is meant to give commercial lines customers greater access to their claims information.
    • Risk Management News

      • Vertafore Commits to Single Sign-On
      • MagMutual Names New Risk Management VP
      • Hartford Steam Boiler Partners on Blackout Risk Tech
      More Risk Management News
    • Quick Links

      • Technology and History Accelerate Insurers' Risk Management Evolution
      • Big Data Boosts Enterprise Risk Management
      • Badass Diamond Heist Boosts Case for Loss Control Tech
      • Making ERM Part of an Insurer's Culture Requires People, Not Just Technology
  • Regulation
    • Top Story

      FIO and NYDFS: A Tale of Two Reports
      New York Insurance Commissioner Ben Lawsky's criticism of captive reinsurance deals appears sensationalist in light of the yesterday's FIO report and industry-side statements.
    • Regulation News

      • MEDfx Gets Michigan Designation as SSA Disability eClaims Tech Provider
      • Insurers Still Waiting for Regulatory Modernization Report
      • SAP's Camilion Buy Fuels New Compliance-Focused Launch
      More Regulation News
    • Quick Links

      • 4 Key Issues from the Long-Delayed FIO Report
      • 5 Market Forces Driving Change in Insurance Carriers' Strategy — Deloitte
      • After a Decade of M&A, CFG Emerges Unified on Sapiens ALIS Policy Administration System
      • 4 Health Insurance Reform Concerns Technology Can Address
  • Distribution
    • Top Story

      Gartner: Personal Loss Control Could Reduce Losses 20% by 2015
      What a new Gartner report terms "active loss prevention" could usher in a new era of insurer/policyholder cooperation in the prevention of loss of property and person — potentially reshaping consumers' perception of the value of the insurance industry.
    • Distribution News

      • National Western Life Replaces Existing eApp With StoneRiver LifeApply
      • Lincoln Financial Distributors' Tech Strategy: Be Producer-Centric
      • Sentinel Security Life Adopts iPipeline iGO App-based Solution
      More Distribution News
    • Quick Links

      • 3 Technologies Changing P&C Insurance Distribution
      • Tech-Enabled Closers Pursue Golden Leads in Insurance Sales
      • Life Insurers Deliver Agent Ease Of Use With E-Signatures, E-Apps And Automated Underwriting
      • CUNA Mutual Group Triples Annuity Sales With Gamified Sales Platform
  • Customer Insight
    • Top Story

      10 Top Tweets from #IASA2013
      Twitter activity around the IASA Educational Conference and Business Show increased this year with the promise of an iPad Mini to one prolific Tweeter. Here's some of the highlights.
    • Customer Insight News

      • Three Insurers Take The Plunge Into Telehealth
      • IPartners Signs South African Insurer
      • 4 Reasons to Invest in Direct Commercial Insurance Sales Platforms
      More Customer Insight News
    • Quick Links

      • Big Data's Consumerization Angle
      • More Analytics of Ingenie Telematics Data on the Horizon
      • Is Big Data Insurers' Savior — Or Destroyer?
      • 5 Agenda Items for the 2013 IASA Annual Conference
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  • Workforce

      • Stop Being A Hated IT Overlord
        By | June 17, 2013
        Recent research suggests that only 30% of workers are fully engaged in their job. We can't fix corporate dysfunction until we break down bureaucracy and do right by our employees.
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      • Application Performance: A New Competitive Advantage in Insurance
        By Kieran Taylor, Compuware | June 13, 2013
        Many insurers struggle to proactively monitor and manage application delivery chains. What does it take to deliver round-the-clock service, with applications that work everywhere, all the time?
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      • ING Poland Drives Engagement with Customers and Associates
        By Anthony O'Donnell | June 10, 2013
        CIO Pawel Brzeksi and vendor technical lead Michal Majcher recounted ING Poland’s journey from case management to customer engagement at the PegaWORLD user group meeting at the Rosen Shingle Creek resort in Orlando, Fla.
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      • Big Data's Consumerization Angle
        By Kathy Burger | June 07, 2013
        As with mobile and social media, insurance company employees increasingly expect to have access to analytics and big data capabilities.
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      • Is Big Data Insurers' Savior — Or Destroyer?
        By Kathy Burger | June 04, 2013
        Industry experts are warning that if insurance companies don’t master analytics and big data, someone else will — presenting a devastating competitive challenge.
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      • Bring Your Own Service: The Next Wave in Collaboration?
        By Kathy Burger | May 28, 2013
        A new Microsoft survey across 32 countries shows worker appetite for social tools is increasing. However, financial services firms may not be prepared to satisfy this appetite.
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      • Protective Life Deploys iPipeline's iGO Drop Ticket to Streamline Agent Sales Process
        By Kathy Burger | May 15, 2013
        Rules-based short form is designed to simplify application process and facilitate sales.
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      • Selective Announces Executive Promotions in Claims and IT
        By Kathy Burger | May 13, 2013
        Among a roster of recent appointments and promotions announced by Selective Insurance were George Neale as SVP, Chief Claims Officer, and John Bresney as SVP, Application Delivery Services.
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      • What IT Staffs Want More Than Salary
        By | May 10, 2013
        The 5 job factors that matter most to IT executives have nothing to do with compensation. Are you ready to deliver?
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      • IT Success Depends On Treating Staff As People, Not "Human Resources"
        By Anthony O'Donnell | May 07, 2013
        IT managers must think of employees as people, not as interchangeable resources, says author and former insurance CIO Frank Wander.
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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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      • 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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      • Fads Versus Reality: What's the Best Way to Boost Workforce Productivity?
        By Kathy Burger | April 26, 2013
        There's been much debate about the best way to encourage employee productivity. Insurance & Technology's IT Resource Management Guide offers insights into this challenge and other strategies for getting the most out of staff, budget and IT partners.
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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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      • What Was Insurance Tech Like Before the PC?
        By Nathan Golia | April 12, 2013
        A respondent to a Reddit thread on the pre-PC era provides a window into how billing and accounting systems were developed on punch cards.
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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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      • Celina Insurance is Launch Client for IBM 'Social E-mail'
        By Nathan Golia | March 22, 2013
        The new platform aims to integrate e-mail in social collaboration.
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      • Chubb CIO Explains His No-Stress Social Rollout
        By | March 19, 2013
        Jim Knight, global CIO for Chubb Group of Insurance Companies, says the company's move to Jive as a social business platform is all about innovation and collaboration. Not required: sleepless nights.
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      • 3 Trends in Insurance Technology TrainingSlideshow Article
        By Peggy Bresnick Kendler | March 15, 2013
        As with any other IT investment, insurance technology executives need to maximize the value – in terms of time and resources, as well as expenditures for every employee training investment. However, it’s often difficult to know where training will yield the biggest bang for the buck, as well as to determine the most effective ways to deliver training. Here are some strategies CIOs should keep in mind.
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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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      • SaaS Speeds U.K. Insurer's IT Overhaul
        By | March 13, 2013
        Direct Line Group finds the cloud its safest bet to quickly establish a separate HR system before separating from its parent company.
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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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      • What’s Driving IT’s Record of Failure — And What Can Fix It?
        By Anthony O'Donnell | March 10, 2013
        A former insurance CIO traces the endemic failure of IT projects — and the economic waste it implies — to the imposition of an industrial process on the social phenomenon of knowledge work.
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      • H-1B Workers Not Best Or Brightest, Study Says
        By | March 04, 2013
        Skilled foreign worker programs are causing a U.S. brain drain, an Economic Policy Institute report says.
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      • As Telecommuting Debate Rages, Aetna Sticks by Big At-Home Workforce
        By Caroline Humer, Reuters | March 01, 2013
        Of the insurer's 35,000 employees, 14,500 do not have a desk at the home office, a move that the company's top executives, CEO Mark Bertolini and national business chief Joseph Zubretsky, have said helps cut costs in real estate.
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