Technology Helps Insurers Unleash the Possibilities of Digitization

whitePaper | March 2, 2020

The insurance industry is operating in an age of radical disruption. Traditional insurers are no longer safe, with insurtechs challenging incumbents to rethink their business and operating models. The diversification of product offerings and ever-growing price competitiveness mean that customer expectations are changing faster than ever before.

whitePaper | August 25, 2022

From climate change to Covid-19, shifting customer demand to ever-evolving regulatory compliance, the challenges are ongoing and today present some of the biggest barriers to success faced by the insurance industry. The sheer amount of upheaval has been unprecedented, and its pace is only accelerating. It comes as no surprise that as a result, 64% of global insurance CEOs plan to significantly increase their digital transformation investment over the next three years.

whitePaper | June 16, 2022

Data has always been an important asset in the insurance industry, which is largely built on algorithms and financial models. Today, that is truer than ever before. Data can be analyzed to provide insurers with deeper business insights and the ability to target the right customers through the right channels with the right offerings in the right sequence. It also has opened the door to a growing group of digital natives and insurtechs that bring innovative ideas and solutions to help accelerate and improve the customer journey. Today, the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) is increasing the importance of data across the industry. AI is widely recognized for its potential to bring greater efficiency and innovation to the entire insurance value chain, from customer acquisition to claims processing, and for all stakeholders, including customers, agents and employees. However, effective AI depends on current, accurate and relevant data. AI is key to competitiveness, and data is key to AI.

whitePaper | March 17, 2022

The challenges facing the insurance industry have accelerated a shift in customer expectations for digital-first, streamlined and personalised relationships. This content highlights how creating a strong data culture can enable insurers to improve decision making and enhance the customer experience.

whitePaper | April 26, 2022

The climate crisis poses a serious threat to the United States economy and human welfare, with a narrowing timeframe to invest in opportunities to avoid the most catastrophic impacts. Extreme weather events can be exacerbated by climate change, disrupting supply chains, and flooding made worse by sea level rise can destroy critical infrastructure. As a smaller subset of these impacts, climate change threatens the Nation’s fiscal health.

whitePaper | May 4, 2022

In order to thrive and compete in the digital age, insurers cannot afford to overlook the opportunities that emerge where industry and technology trends meet. If digital had already fundamentally altered the way businesses operate over the past few years, the global pandemic certainly compounded those changes. Where and how we work, the products and services people choose to consume and how, what constitutes a positive customer experience from the significant to the subtle, no element of business is untouched by significant shifts. In many respects the insurance industry has done an excellent job of responding to these challenges—in the short term at least. But merely keeping up is not enough in the long term. In order to thrive and compete in the digital age, insurers cannot afford to overlook the opportunities that emerge where industry and technology trends meet. Seizing these opportunities may mean reprioritizing the transformation agenda, but the rewards will more than justify the means.