Canada’s P&C insurance industry needs to get back to basics — unmet customer needs — when designing tech-enabled digital strategies and products, speakers said last week during an industry webinar. Too often, carriers or other industry stakeholders get involved in…
Customers want to be in the driver’s seat and, increasingly, that is something insurance providers should want as well, Ellen Carney, principal analyst for e-business and channel strategy at U.S.-based research and advisory firm Forrester, suggested during a Centre for…
Creating multiple access points for a single consumer to obtain electronic communications, including e-documents, could be detrimental to the Ontario consumer, the Insurance Brokers Association of Ontario (IBAO) argued in a position paper released on Thursday. IBAO released the paper,…
An insurer’s safest bet for survival as insurTech enters its second wave is to make customer choice a true focal point, providing customers access to answers and services when and how they want, Matteo Carbone, founder and director of the…
The insurance industry is undergoing structural change with the emergence of platform-based business models and insurers need to ready themselves to be able to take part, Matthew Smith, insurance co-lead for the Global Strategy Group at KPMG, suggested during the…
Just shy of a third of executive mobile devices were exposed to network attack during the second quarter of 2016 and almost as high a percentage were infected with malware, leaving valuable, sensitive data vulnerable to cyber criminals, notes a…
Not understanding the changing customer could prove detrimental to the insurance industry, Sam Natur, CEO and president of Bullfrog Insurance, told conference attendees last week at the 2016 CIP Society Symposium in Toronto. “If you think that’s not going to…