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The Return to Purpose-Driven Business Models: Spotlight on Insurance
Any leader in any company who sees a future for their business and career is feeling the pressure to innovate, find new ideas and business models, and create enduring client value that adds to the bottom line and strengthens the balance sheet. There is no one formula or set process to find and execute the…
What Happens to Insurance When We Can All Foresee Our Own Risks?
In a recent New York Times story, New Gene Test Poses Threat to Insurers, reporter Gina Kolata describes how data transparency and availability are disrupting underwriting for long term care insurance. Kolata discusses how this product, challenged for years by inaccurate claims forecasting and sky-high pricing, faces further threat of adverse selection — as a…
Can the insurance sector move at the speed of change ?
Chances are you are presently or soon to be engaged in the annual planning cycle, taking stock of the year and anticipating your goals and targets for 2016. Annual planning feels anachronistic in a world where businesses survive only by operating at least at the speed of change, and where constant iteration is the order…
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Kahina Van Dyke
Global Head, Digital Channels & Client Data Analytics; Standard Chartered Bank Board Member, Progressive Insurance