Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The insurance industry has not been immune to AI’s advancement – whether implementing robo-advisors for investment management (Vanguard and Charles Schwab) or applying AI to insurance and loan underwriting (the Chinese search giant Baidu, which provides enhanced risk assessment capabilities).

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BCG

AUGUST 12, 2016

Yet management often viewed these methods—based on principles set out in 2001 in the Agile Manifesto—as untested and maybe even a bit wonky. The future of IT is one speed: all-agile. It’s not just because agile’s footprint is expanding to industries like banking and insurance. Agile,” BCG article, February 2016.)

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Agilent Technologies, separating from Hewlett Packard, turned to Deloitte to help facilitate the transaction and Deloitte in turn asked Steve Pratt to act as project lead. Soon, Pratt and Joshi talked and Agilent became the first client Deloitte served using a global delivery model (GDM). Transformation Program Management.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The benefit there is, firms can tap into hard-to-find skills as needed and scale resources up or down in response to demand — essentially, allowing them to embrace a more agile approach to running the business. A client will now pay for the overall gains such as tax savings, ROIs, insurance claims, and so on.

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 16, 2023

He earned his PhD in resource management, underlining his expertise. Albert is the co-founder of Epicflow, an AI-driven multi-project management system. This article explores managing uncertainty in organizations. Having Insurance (Risk Buffer). But the professionals who executed the project considered it a huge success.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

That was closely followed by recognition that many corporate cultures had not developed the agility and flexibility to transform: 29 percent said the culture could not absorb all the changes coming from strategy implementation. Promote team engagement and effective cross-business cooperation. Beware of the “frozen middle.”

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Why is one insurance company deep into an agile transformation while another is experimenting with it only at the edges of its business? An “operating model” — how a company organizes and manages its resources to achieve its strategic ambitions — is the bridge between strategy and execution.

Strategy 28

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

IT has long played a critical role in helping organizations deliver better products and services, improve operations, better manage risks, and develop new business models to stay relevant. Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. That’s still true. How to Become a Digital Enterprise.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. Sensors, embedded devices, and wearables are steadily becoming ubiquitous in the enterprise, generating huge amounts of data that, if not managed well, can easily become noise. How to Become a Digital Enterprise. Contextual insight. Security and identity.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Failure to accurately quantify the enterprise value of data (EvD) may therefore woefully undervalue the importance of cyber-security investments, as well as the face values typically applied to cyber insurance policies. Definitions for what constitutes EvD, and methodologies to calculate its value, remain in their infancy.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2017

The ones that persisted are incredibly well-positioned today, having transformed their business processes and enabled a level of agility that competitors cannot easily mimic. But how does a manager justify continuing to invest in AI if the first few initiatives don’t produce results? Could Liberate 50% of Managers' Time.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2016

That’s why I stress the value of a cyber risk management framework that begins by focusing on the business factors driving growth and profitability and ends with the technology infrastructure. Companies that can talk about upcoming changes and plan for them in advance can build adaptive, agile, and effective cybersecurity strategies.

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Emerson Consulting Group

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

The hardest thing was to commit to what is (to me) a relatively expensive process in ‘blind faith,’” admits Jim Edholm, President of Business Benefits Insurance, a consulting firm focused on planning employee benefits. “If a strategic management and operations consulting firm that helps businesses implement breakthrough strategies.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Cigna is the first insurance company to get pharmaceutical companies to agree to value pricing based on results for certain cholesterol-lowering drugs. And the Health Care Transformation Task Force , a newly formed coalition of private insurers and provider organizations in the U.S., ” Health care.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Today’s successful companies close the strategy-to-performance gap with a new strategy approach best described as “Decide-Do/Refine-Do” This agile, test-and-learn approach is better suited to today’s tumultuous environment. The Plan-then-Do approach is obsolete – even dangerous. Take Google.

Strategy 28

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Company 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Automated blockchain triggers and enforcements might have even helped entire nations avoid humanitarian disasters caused by economic transactions, such as the milk scandal of 2008 which claimed 300,000 victims, dis-incenting the use of forced child labor, or managing recent threats from ISIS to poison the European food supply.

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Transportation Insurance Insurance Data 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2016

How does your organization manage the money it spends on digital? In essence, digital investments should be planned and managed according to their current and future contribution to business performance. Today, for example, many banks, insurance companies and law firms are exploring how they might exploit blockchain technologies.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. Beginning at 8:45 AM, care teams and managers in our hospitals and clinics gather in more than 1,500 Tier I huddles.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

By Ashish Chawla, Global Head, Cognizant Contentworks; Shubham Choudhury, Senior Manager and Consulting Lead, Cognizant Contentworks. However, many are not equipped to confront the legion of new, more agile competitors—and run the danger of becoming the losers in that war. Tomorrow’s IME Landscape. Reusability.

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Media Metrics Education Insurance 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

For example, Children’s has a strong care management capability, which is largely comprised of a team of people who help patients manage their medical care, medications, etc. At the end of the program these metrics were then correlated to observed changes in health management behavior (for example, compliance with prescriptions).

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