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Gen AI is Here. What’s Next For Insurance Careers?

06/10/2024 Mike Connor, CEO-CoFounder SVIA Blog, Innovation, Now To Next Session Notes, Uncategorized

Welcome to The Great AI Transformation

AI is not just a technological advancement; it’s a transformative force reshaping how value is defined, created, and delivered in the insurance industry. This transformation extends beyond technology, redefining the insights and skills insurance professionals need to stay relevant and competitive.

Whether you work in sales, marketing, underwriting, claims, customer support, or a technical role, understanding AI and its trajectory is critical. Using this knowledge to create a competitive edge for your career and organization is no longer optional; it is essential.

Building a Career Edge In the AI Insurance Era: Demystifying The AI Genie

05/31/2024 Mike Connor Blog, Future of Insurance, Now To Next Session Notes

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming industries worldwide, and the insurance sector is no exception. To stay competitive and advance your career, it’s crucial to develop a deeper understanding of AI and its impact on our industry.

Platform Systems: Foundation for Agility, Speed, and Innovation

09/26/2020 Denise Garth, Chief Strategy Officer, Majesco Blog, Digital Ecosystems, InsurTech

Innovation & Agility = Insurer Survival. COVID rocked our world. Normal family, community, and business practices turned upside down. Insurance operations that relied on paper and in-person interactions obsolete. Surviving requires innovation and agility. Without an enabling platform, it’s impossible. That’s why every insurer needs to build an innovation scorecard.

What Does It Take To Be Transformative?

09/13/2020 Greg Murphy, is EVP for INSTANDA North America Blog

Over the past few years, businesses across all industries have been busy implementing digital strategies and fundamentally changing how they operate and deliver value to customers. As a sector, however, insurance has been slow to embrace digital transformation. Part of the problem is the interpretation of what ‘digital transformation’ really means.

Embedded Insurance: Simple, Transparent, Game-Changing

08/11/2020 Mike Connor, CEO, SVIA Blog, Disruptive Business Models

Nobody wants to buy insurance. It is hard to understand, related to a future risk that is hard to imagine, and relative to that risk seems arbitrarily expensive. Topping that off is an often frustrating, burdensome, heavily paper and people-intensive process. Overcoming that would be game-changing. Meet the Embedded Insurance Innovators.

Digital Insurance & Speed to Market – It’s Time to Get Your Game On

07/20/2020 Mike Connor, CEO, SVIA Blog, Digital Ecosystems, Future of Insurance, InsurTech

Covid-19 is rapidly changing our world. It’s accelerated the digital transformation of our society, businesses, and personal lives by at least 5 years. The digital leaders in insurance are responding by accelerating their own digital transformation and initiatives. What that means to fast followers and laggards is that if you expect to survive the 2 – 3 years, It’s time to get your digital game on.

Why The Customer-Centric Agency is the Future

06/11/2020 Matt Chesky, President, Insuritas Blog, Customer Engagement, Future of Insurance

The agency model has unique, structural advantages over direct writers and lead-gen platforms in insurance distribution in that it is best aligned with consumer desire for objective, transparent, and trusted advice for their risk management needs. A customer-centric agency that can deliver efficient customer acquisition, a frictionless shopping experience, and trusted, ongoing advisory services can create immense value for today’s insurance consumer, and is the only way to re-establish the independent agency as the risk management model of the future.

COVID’s Digital Mandate: Insurers Double Down on Transformation & Innovation

05/31/2020 Mike Connor, CEO, SVIA Blog, Digital Ecosystems, InsurTech

Over the past months, I’ve been in conversations with multiple carriers, tech vendors, and InsurTechs. In the early days of COVID, it was all hands on deck to protect employees and to care for customers during the quarantine. While there is still work to do in those areas the conversation has shifted dramatically in the past month. The conversation now is how to accelerate digital transformation in preparation for the new normal.

The COVID-19 Imperative: Risk Management, Business Continuity Planning, & Innovation

05/18/2020 Michael Lovegrove, CEO, JRNY Blog, Future of Insurance

Digital innovation is no longer just a nice to have; it’s a must-have. It’s no longer just about reducing costs or improving margins; COVID-19 has shown that it’s now an imperative addition to risk management processes and business continuity planning (BCP) as well.

What’s Next for P&C Customer Engagement?

04/13/2020 Mike Connor, CEO, SVIA Blog, Customer Engagement, Digital Ecosystems

P&C customer engagement is changing. That change driven by InsurTechs and Big Tech firms engages customers personally through the use of big data, AI & ML, awesome UX design and back end systems purpose-built to support this kind of engagement. That’s just the first wave. What’s coming next as these companies tap deeper into the digital ecosystems surrounding insureds will change the competitive ground rules again.

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Gen AI is Here. What’s Next For Insurance Careers?
Welcome to The Great AI Transformation AI is not just a technological advancement; it’s a transformative force reshaping how value is defined, created, and delivered in the insurance industry. This transformation extends beyond technology, redefining the insights and skills insurance professionals need to stay relevant and competitive. Whether you work in sales, marketing, underwriting, claims,
Building a Career Edge In the AI Insurance Era: Demystifying The AI Genie
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming industries worldwide, and the insurance sector is no exception. To stay competitive and advance your career, it’s crucial to develop a deeper understanding of AI and its impact on our industry.
Assessing Leadership Proficiency in an AI-Driven Insurance Era
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Benchmarking Insurance Leaders’ AI Readiness
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly reshaping insurance. The role of decision-makers is more crucial than ever. Beyond merely adopting AI as a technology, leaders must prepare their organizations for the next wave AI innovations. Innovations that will redefine the industry. How ready are your leaders?