Technology & Analytics
Valen Analytics Scores Personal Auto Analytics Deal With Capital Insurance Group
Valen Analytics, a provider of proprietary data, analytics and predictive modeling for property/casualty insurers, announced that Capital Insurance Group (CIG) will be leveraging Valen's InsureRight ...
Insurer Staff Declines Greater Than Anticipated in 2015
Two-thirds of insurers surveyed say they're planning to hire more in 2016, but whether they will actually go through with those plans remains a question. In fact, 14 percent of insurers decreased ...
Board Tech Inexperience Hampers Insurer IT Embrace: Novarica
Insurers speak loudly these days about embracing information technology as a tool to help grow their businesses. It turns out, however, that there is a disconnect: Their boards of directors are often ...
P/C Insurers See Wide Uses for Predictive Analytics: Willis Towers Watson
Property/casualty insurers plan to drastically widen their use of predictive analytics over the next two years to expand and grow their operations, a Willis Towers Watson survey has found. What's ...
First ‘Contextual’ Telematics Insurance Model Launching in U.S.
Last week, LexisNexis Risk Solutions announced a new telematics model, describing it as the first U.S. insurance model to apply geospatial context to driving events to better understand how drivers ...
Pretotyping Explained: Why Google, Tech Innovators Set Out to Fail Fast
Pretotyping is the key to market innovation, according to a technology entrepreneur who once held the title of innovation agitator at Google. Alberto Savoia, the founder of Pretotype Labs and former ...
Best Practices for Adopting Advanced Analytics: McKinsey & Co.
Successful adoption of advanced analytics can give carriers a huge competitive advantage, helping them visualize key trends, predict future outcomes and prescribe actions. But carriers have only ...
Why Anonymous Employee Feedback Is No Longer Beneficial
According to David Hassell, CEO of employee engagement software firm 15five, the concept behind anonymous feedback is a holdover of a bygone era where, in many organizations, the leadership of a ...