Language and Mental Health (Part 2) By Donna Hardaker Sally Spencer-Thomas When talking about suicide, test language by substituting the word “cancer” for the word “suicide.”
So Your Start-Up Will Sell Insurance? By Kyle Nakatsuji There are four distribution models to consider: lead generation, agency/brokerage, managing general agency and carrier.
A Word With Shefi: Inoma at WeSavvy By Shefi Ben Hutta "The current industry model has to shift from one that penalizes to one that rewards the customers for positive behaviors."
Managing Behavioral Health at Work By Mark Walls Employers can reduce the duration of disability for behavioral health issues and perhaps see improvement in workers' comp, too.
The Questions That Aren't Being Asked By Jesse Lyon Crucial issues are being missed in cyber and elsewhere, showing that we have to find ways to develop radically different underwriting skills.
Why Your Big Ideas Go Nowhere By Maria Ferrante-Schepis The old problem was a lack of game-changing ideas. The new problem is our bias against them.
A Word With Shefi: Micro Insurance By Shefi Ben Hutta "The challenge in the informal sector is that poverty is often anchored in extended families, and not the individual as in the formal sector."
How to Choose a Great Coach By Paul Laughlin The selection of coaches often still lacks a robust, structured process; here is a three-stage approach that can help.
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.