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The ITEX View: How brokers can succeed in the digital age
Embracing new technology can represent a real opportunity for brokers to add value, ITEX chairman Nigel Norman says
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Expert View: Process automation is the new team player
Accenture managing director, general insurance, Hammad Rafique on how robotics could help free the industry from repetitive back office tasks, with cost benefits
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Innovation blog: Diversity hits the bottom line
Let’s make 2016 the year for action on diversity, urges Dominic Christian, chief executive of Aon UK and chair of Inclusion@Lloyd’s
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Innovation blog: 'Our job is not to explain the past, but to give you a guide to the future'
Dr Will Pettigrew and Dr Edmond Smith of Kent University’s Centre for the Study of the Political Economies of International Commerce (PEIC) explain how they plan to use pioneering research techniques to map the future of innovation in insurance
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Innovation blog: Work with start-ups, not against them
Kathy Yu of KPMG’s high growth technology group argues corporates need to follow in Google’s footsteps and embrace the ’soul, passion and speed’ of start-ups
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Innovation blog: The role and importance of strategic marketing
Is your business truly customer-centric? Probably not says Murray Cox, digital strategy director of consultants Pancentric. And he says that until it is, you won’t be able to create a value proposition that appeals in the new marketplace
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Innovation blog: Carriers and buyers should work together to keep insurance relevant
Airmic chief executive John Hurrell looks at corporates’ changing insurance needs
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Innovation blog: Delivering customer experience innovation with design thinking
Conduit Data Services chief data officer Simon Spyer on how ‘design thinking’ can lead to really understanding customers
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Innovation blog: When the going gets digital, the digitals get going
The internet has been the biggest disrupter to the insurance industry in recent years. Premium finance provider PremFina’s chief executive Bundeep Singh Rangar discusses how companies can make the most of the market’s shift online by becoming more digital themselves
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Carrot Insurance turns tragedy into award-winning telematics
Software created by Kamran Mahmoudzadeh after his son’s motoring death has helped make young drivers safer
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Innovation Blog: Don’t leave the future in the hands of the gods
Ryan Direct Group chief executive Derek Coles on why thinking and acting differently are now buzzwords for the insurance industry, and how it can learn from the Roman deity Janus
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Innovation Blog: Are insurers dad dancers or old men grooving?
Are insurers about to surprise us with their ability to throw off their cardigans and bust some serious innovation moves? John Warburton is optimistic.
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Innovation Blog: Split the industry in two, one side for innovation one side to keep the status-quo
Robin Merttens, an independent consultant and analyst in the London insurance market, takes a provocative look at solving the insurance industry’s innovation inertia
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Innovation Blog: Why middle management need to get on board with diversity
In this blog, Novae chief executive Matthew Fosh discusses why diversity is still struggling to take off, and what he thinks needs to be done to help promote it
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Innovation Blog: The Hype Cycle of Insurance Disruption
In this blog, Bought By Many chief marketing officer Sam Gilbert discusses the trends in insurance technology and how the passage of time impacts upon digital’s adoption in the industry
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Innovation Blog: How insurers can benefit from the start-up culture
Sabine VanderLinden, managing director at Startupbootcamp insurtech, the world’s first global insurance start-up accelerator based in London, considers how start-ups are being nurtured, and what they can really bring to the industry
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Innovation Blog: Insurtech – Where is the ‘Re’?
In this blog, boutique search firm Flint Hyde’s head of insurance, Gareth Eggle, discusses the role reinsurers can play in the growing insurtech movement
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Innovation Blog: Reflecting on the first year as a startup
In this ongoing blog, former Aviva employee and startup entrepreneur, Phoebe Hugh, discusses what processes she went through in the last year as she built her startup
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Innovation Blog: The Minimum Loveable Product
In this ongoing blog, former Aviva employee and start-up entrepreneur, Phoebe Hugh, tackles the challenges faced by insurance start-ups.