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How Companies Are Benefiting from “Lite” Artificial Intelligence

Harvard Business

These include improving data-mining operations, helping with training, and making structured, repeatable tasks and processes far more efficient and less costly. Enter ABIe (shorthand for the Allstate Business Insurance Expert), which my firm helped develop. The cost of simply expanding the call centers was prohibitive.

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How AIG Moved Toward Evidence-Based Decision Making

Harvard Business

” One might be surprised to find a Science Team in an insurance company. Ninety percent of the team was recruited from beyond the insurance industry to enable it to challenge the status quo approach to decision-making. In January 2012, AIG launched the “Science Team.”

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How Atrius Health Is Making the Shift from Volume to Value

Harvard Business

For years, Atrius Health had been focusing on standardizing processes, removing waste, and improving efficiency using improvement activities employing lean. In addition, the Care in Place team met with a leader at a large insurance company that insures 45% of Atrius Health’s elder population.