There’s an image accompanying the next article of this special report showing a closeup profile view of a visionary whose mind is connected to a network of things. (The State Farm Vision: Ecosystem Capabilities for the Insurer of the Future)

The illustration of this innovator peering into the future was conceptualized by Carrier Management’s art director, with the help of AI, to represent the words of the headline, “The State Farm Vision: Ecosystem Capabilities for the Insurer of the Future.” And it’s a fair representation for an article written by IoT Insurance Observatory Founder Matteo Carbone and State Farm’s Vice President of Innovation Haden Kirkpatrick, in which the two authors advise industry peers to adopt platform-based strategies of intercompany partnerships to capitalize on the increasing availability of data from IoT devices and to create seamless customer experiences—basically to emulate the centuries-old carrier which has partnered with ADT and other home ecosystem players as it leans into the future.