October 2026 ITL FOCUS: Change Management By Insurance Thought Leadership ITL FOCUS is a monthly initiative featuring topics related to innovation in risk management and insurance.
Reducing the Risk in Change Management By Insurance Thought Leadership More experience and better tools are taking some of the risk out of change management during today's complex and significant technology transition.
Making Innovation Stick in Insurance Organizations By Abrianne Harmon Sustainable innovation in insurance requires organizations to master change adoption through culture building and strategic training design.
Carriers Must Govern AI Use in Agencies By Mike Allton Most carriers require agencies to carry E&O coverage but don't yet ask who's reviewing AI-generated client communications.
A Hidden AI Risk: Passive Sabotage By Ryan Cantor Insurance leaders who wait for perfect AI can fall behind competitors already learning to deploy it strategically and responsibly.
Insurance Industry Faces Growing Trust Crisis By Alan Demers The insurance industry has always had a trust problem. What is new is the intensity — and the number of forces converging to make it harder to ignore.
Change Management Is Changing By Melissa Palmer Change management can no longer be viewed as a one-time project discipline. It must become an organizational capability.
AI Lets Insurers Avoid Reserve Surprises By Upendra Belhe AI-enabled decision intelligence helps insurers integrate fragmented enterprise data before reserve surprises become $500 million problems.
Changing Expectations on Mobile Payments By Julie Schieni 41% of millennials with insurance purchased it with their mobile device, and other generations are moving in that direction, too.
Are We Losing Our Negotiating Power? By Taylor Smith John Burge The plaintiff bar has investigated a staggering amount of money to improve its data on claims settlements. Insurance industry lawyers are way behind..
Continuous Improvement Comes to Insurance By Riv Arthur Process intelligence tools let operations leaders “see” digital products being built, enabling use of statistical process control techniques.
The Experience/Efficiency Paradox By Rory Yates Insurers must move from the manufacturing era (efficiency through administrative scale) to the ecosystem era (maximizing the value of a relationship).