Workplaces Coping With Suicide Trauma By Sally Spencer-Thomas Here are case studies to demonstrate good and bad "postvention"--psychological first aid after a suicide that affects a workplace.
Could an Insurer Be the Next Sears? By Stephen Applebaum Having a major insurer disappear seems impossible, but that's what everyone thought about Atari, Kodak, Commodore, Polaroid....
Insurance 2030: Scenario Planning By Mark Breading While some see scenario planning as academic, it typically yields surprising insights that inform short-term and mid-term strategies.
How Insurers Can Prepare for Recession By Tom Hammond Consumer confidence plays a significant role in economic health, but it’s a factor that many insurance companies tend to overlook.
How Fine Print Ruins Customer Experience By Jon Picoult Consumer disclosure -- the industry’s preferred instrument for narrowing the trust gap -- might actually be widening it.
The Components of Innovation Capital By Nathan Furr Jeff Dyer Curtis Lefrandt What convinces people to support an idea, whether the support be time, money or an endorsement?
Marrying Incumbents and Startups (Part 2) By Marina Cvetkovic Legacy leaders hold on to the rules. Startup leaders abandon them. Disruptive leaders write new ones but always explain why.
The Risk in A.M. Best's Innovation Scoring By Mark Webb The risk is that insurers will not do the thorough risk analysis necessary before launching and implementing significant technology initiatives.
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 Tom Bobrowski 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).
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.