8 Make-or-Break Rules for Innovation By Chunka Mui Following these rules won't guarantee success -- business is a contact sport -- but will help you turn size into an advantage.
What Apple-IBM Means for Insurers By Barry Rabkin The partnership will let insurers compete in a mobile-first, customer-driven world -- but IBM and Apple will not find smooth sailing.
'Sharing Economy' Has Tricky Insurance Issues By Robert Peterson We should be in no hurry to regulate Uber et al. Some decisions are necessary now, to protect consumers, but they must have rigid sunsets.
The Need for Speed: It Just Keeps Intensifying By Denise Garth The average time to implement a product is 7.5 months -- but some innovative companies now do it in less than five days!
Big Brother Is Watching What You Eat and Buy By Tom Emerick If you buy a donut somewhere, even as a treat for a grandchild, a company may be recording that information and selling it to your insurer.
3 Reasons Why Big Firms Should (and Can) Out-Innovate Start-Ups By Chunka Mui Yes, small and agile beats big and slow, but big and agile beats anyone—and that combination is possible.
Don't Look Now, but Wal-Mart Is Coming By James Moore Sam's Club has more than 47 million members, who could be ripe targets for workers' comp insurance from Wal-Mart.
‘Interactive Finance’: Meshing with Google Insurers are at a tipping point. The way forward -- to a future like Google's or Facebook's -- involves giving rewards for information that details risk.
Tech Secret to a Combined Ratio Below 100% By Matteo Carbone Deepak Karthikeyan While large personal auto insurers have adopted telematics-based programs, they’re only scratching the surface of the potential benefits.
Insurtech Is at an Inflection Point By Tom Kussurelis Insurtech funding has been dropping since 2021 and hit a 20-quarter low in 4Q22. Will it rebound, continue on a flat path or decline further?
'Digital Twins': The Race Is On By Roger Arnemann The concept is widely adopted in manufacturing and supply chain. Insurers that integrate digital twins will significantly out-compete rivals.
Insurance in 2030: What Does the Future Hold? By Marie Carr In an increasingly fractured world, insurers have to cover a greater array and frequency of intensifying risks.