A Practical Tool to Connect to Customers By Amy Radin Here’s a tool you can use to deepen your brand’s connection to customer needs and begin to conceptualize new business models.
Does Your Culture Embrace Innovation? By Toby Redshaw The simple question, “What really dumb stuff do we do around here?” in the right penalty-free environment unleashes a torrent of change.
New C-Suite Member: Chief Digital Officer By Chris Curran The chief digital officer must develop an all-inclusive digital experience for customers — while managing the big investment required.
Are Your Customers Like Berliners? By Paul Laughlin Berliners showed me that, just when I thought I had them figured out, I hadn't. Customers should be treated with the same care.
New Approach to Risk and Infrastructure? By Tariq Taherbhai A P3 model (Public Private Partnership) can let governments invest in infrastructure while transferring risk in new ways.
Leadership Coaching: Is It For You? By Paul Laughlin Once dismissed as a fad, leadership coaching has been embraced, and the academic evidence for its efficacy has surged.
Secret Sauce for New Business Models? By Denise Garth The cloud lets insurers innovate by quickly setting up a sort of satellite office -- just in a new cognitive space, not a geographic one.
15 Habits of Ultra-Productive People By Kevin Kruse More than 200 ultra-productive people defeat procrastination through time travel and say no to almost everything.
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.
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.