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Business-Aligned IT Strategy

Understand the capabilities and focus areas required to meet your industry’s needs and enable value creation.

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Top Industry Trends

Identify resource, process, and environmental trends impacting your industry. Implement strategies to mitigate specific risks and take advantage of all relevant opportunities.

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Industry Benchmarking

Reveal the true state of your IT services, processes, spend, and staffing levels to align your priorities and resources. Benefit from peer data to get a reference point for how well you stack up.

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Core Industry Technologies & Software Selection

Arm yourself with everything you need to provide the right solutions to meet the needs of your business stakeholders.

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Business-Aligned IT Strategy


Strategy Alignment
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Build an FSI Insurance Business-Aligned IT Strategy

  • Establish the scope of your IT strategy by defining IT’s mission and vision statements and guiding principles.
  • Perform a retrospective of IT’s performance to recognize the current state while highlighting important strategic elements to address going forward.
  • Elicit the business context and identify strategic initiatives that are most important to the organization while building a plan to execute it.
  • Evaluate the foundational elements of IT’s operational strategy that will be required to successfully execute key initiatives.
  • Wrap all strategic information into a highly visual and compelling presentation that enables easy customization and executive-facing content.
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Insurance IT Strategy Initiatives Workbook

  • With input from our research and analysts and your peers, identify new or updated initiatives for your IT strategy.
  • Working with our team, update your IT Strategy Initiatives Workbook.
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Insurance Industry Impacts on IT Strategy: Senior Management Presentation Template

  • Once you’ve completed the IT Strategy Initiatives Workbook, it’s time to pull it all together and share with your organization’s leadership team.
  • Use the Insurance Industry Impacts on IT Strategy: Senior Management Presentation Template to highlight the key findings from the business-aligned analysis you’ve done.

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Top Industry Trends


Top Trends
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Insurance Core Systems Modernization

  • Technology needs to be the driver in meeting customer expectations. Technology must proactively understand client needs and bring enhancements to business leaders.
  • Need the plan to phase out legacy systems. Investment in technology needs to be forward-looking and adapt to market changes and core business needs derived from customer experiences.
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The Future of Insurance

  • Technology needs to be the driver in meeting customer expectations. Technology must proactively understand client needs and bring enhancements to business leaders.
  • Find the right strategy based on requirements. Investment in technology needs to be forward-looking to adapt to market changes and core business needs derived from customer experiences.
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Insurance Customer Experience Report

  • The explosion of Insurtech-based competition and usage-based policies has created an increasingly crowded market for insurance, making customer experience a key differentiator for consumers.
  • Learn about customer experience and how it affects both your organization as a whole and IT specifically, including challenges and opportunities
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Insurance Predictive Analytics Report

  • Insurance organizations have access to incredible amounts of data from clients, IoT devices, claims, and provider systems.
  • The ability to analyze this data effectively and identify fraud, trends, and patterns will provide insight to improve products, properly assess risk, and increase customer satisfaction
  • Learn about how predictive analytics affects both your organization and IT specifically, including challenges and opportunities, with expert assistance.
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Insurance Automation Report

  • Automation and AI have become the driving force of disruption in the Insurance industry and the area where Insurtech and large tech companies have entered the market.
  • Learn about how the automation trend affects both your organization and IT specifically, including challenges and opportunities, with expert assistance.

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Industry Benchmarking


Peer Benchmarking
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Benchmarking Report: A Cross-Industry Comparison of IT Stakeholder Satisfaction

  • Every industry has unique characteristics that can hamper progress or facilitate success in satisfying IT stakeholders. Reimagine your strategy by shifting the definition of who your peers really are.
  • Discover which industries achieve high stakeholder satisfaction across 13 core IT services.
  • Learn the characteristics that different industries have that can help or hinder IT success.
  • Understand what your industry has in common with others that you can leverage to improve stakeholder satisfaction and overcome your own institutional barriers.
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Insurance IT Management & Governance Benchmarking Report

  • Understanding your IT team’s perception of what’s important and how well they’re doing is central to identifying strengths, weaknesses, and potential misalignments with business priorities and expectations.
  • Learn about how IT departments in your industry assess the importance and effectiveness of 45 IT processes to gauge your own alignment and identify select processes for targeted improvement.
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Insurance IT Stakeholder Satisfaction Benchmarking Report

  • IT leadership needs to understand where their clients are unsatisfied with the quality of service they are receiving from IT.
  • Insurance IT struggles with mission-critical services like client-facing technology and analytics. In order to compete, these must be addressed quickly.
  • Understand important focus areas to address and insights into how your team compares with other Insurance IT organizations.
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Insurance IT Staffing Benchmarking Report

  • Many IT departments are already running lean, struggling to keep pace with never-ending demands from the business. IT staffing is stretched thin.
  • With high-than-usual turnover and a lack of new talent with current skill sets coming in the door, IT in Insurance is hard pressed to prepare for new technology and evolving member/donor needs.
  • By taking the IT Staffing Diagnostic, you will gain critical information to understand how to position your IT team to be more strategic.

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Core Industry Technologies & Software Selection


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Insurance Data Analytics Report

  • Insurance organizations have access to incredible amounts of data from clients, IoT devices, claims, and provider systems.
  • The ability to analyze this data effectively and identify fraud, trends, and patterns will provide insight to improve products, properly assess risk, and increase customer satisfaction
  • Learn about how predictive analytics affects both your organization and IT specifically, including challenges and opportunities, with expert assistance.
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Insurance Chatbots Report

  • Chatbots are a key technology that has become required to improve customer experiences and drive down costs as the entry point for automation.
  • Learn about what chatbots provide, the state of the market, key features and functions, and leading vendors in the space.
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Insurance Claims Management Software Report

  • For organizations to remain competitive and control costs, especially in the Insurance space, claims automation is critical to speed the claims process, ensure consistent outcomes, and reduce fraud.
  • Learn about what claims management software is, the state of the market, key features and functions, and leading vendors in the space.

Latest Insurance Notes

Short, tailored research notes aimed at providing you with timely insights, relevant to your industry. Hot off the press, these notes will be published regularly and pair great with your morning coffee.

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Observations on OSFI’s "Culture and Behaviour Risk Guideline" (Draft) 2023 from an IT Perspective

Date published

March 15, 2023

Authors:
  • Donna Bales

  • John Kemp

Culture, in the common view of IT, is largely outlined in the strategy of the organization, expressed in part by the vision, mission, and objectives and described in detail in the principles the organization holds. Behaviors stem from the principles or values.

Establishing a Balanced Scorecard for IT Performance in the Insurance Industry Is an Important Complement to IT Strategy

Date published

October 23, 2019

Author:
  • Sidney Hodgson

The IT balanced scorecard must go beyond the usual IT metrics. To be most effective, it must demonstrate the value IT provides and reflect corporate strategies and goals

Introduction to InsurTech and Its Impact on the Global Insurance Market

Date published

September 20, 2019

Author:
  • David Tomljenovic

Global insurance markets are in the early stages of disruption by new, non-traditional competitors that are approaching the marketplace from a new perspective. They are using new technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, the IoT, and robo advisors to identify new market opportunities, disrupt existing markets, and engage customers in innovative ways.

Digital Preservation: The Opposite Side!

Date published

June 27, 2019

Authors:
  • Janice Clatterbuck

  • David Wallace

Digital preservation is a sustained and integrated people-process-technology capability and commitment to ensure usability and access to digital materials in years to come. Adopting a digital preservation product will prove beneficial to Government, Higher Education, and Financial Services among others.

23 NYCRR 500: The Future of State Security Regulations

Date published

September 13, 2018

Author:
  • Rita Zurbrigg

State-specific security regulations continue to develop, and 23 NYCRR 500 is the first of many. Leverage established frameworks as a baseline for becoming Part 500 compliant to avoid reinventing the compliance process.

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