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Why Amazon and Google aren’t eating your lunch in Canada

February 27, 2020 by David Gambrill

While the hardening market has taken a significant bite out of the industry’s profits, it may also be insulating brokers and insurers from competing against giant tech disruptors such as Amazon and Google for insurance sales, says a former financial

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‘Bring it on,’ Intact CEO tells industry disruptors

December 10, 2019 by Greg Meckbach

Canada’s largest property and casualty insurer plans to be ready for companies from outside the industry who could disrupt the brokerage side of personal lines insurance. “On the distribution side of things, I think one needs to expect that players

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How much buyers are willing to pay for online books of business

September 5, 2018 by Jason Contant

Buyers are pricing in potential future market disruption, such as online distribution, when buying a broker’s books of business, a P&C transaction advisor told Canadian Underwriter Wednesday. Mike Berris, partner and practice group leader with Vancouver-based Smythe Advisory said he

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Building an innovative culture? Here are two pitfalls to avoid…

June 29, 2018 by David Gambrill

Companies often make two common blunders when they seek to disrupt themselves. First, some talk about hiring a bunch of “intrapreneurs” – creative geniuses who break all the rules and swim against the corporate tide – and then silo them

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Enhancing “human skills” crucial to tackling machine-led disruption

March 26, 2018 Andy Blatchford - THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA – A year into its effort to help equip youth for the rapidly evolving workforce, one of the country’s largest banks says enhancing young Canadians’ human skills will be critical in navigating the machine-led disruption that lies ahead. In

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2018 Outlook: Jean-Francois Blais, President, Intact Insurance

December 29, 2017 Jean-Francois Blais

*Editor’s Note:  Jean-Francois Blais retires as Intact President effective Jan. 1, 2018. His contribution to our 2018 CEO Outlook pre-dated his retirement announcement. The insurance industry is facing potential disruption. Insurers are tackling several longer-term trends including the sharing economy,

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Federal bill aims to address ‘regulatory challenges’ of disruptive vehicle technologies

September 22, 2017 by Canadian Underwriter

Legislation under consideration by the House of Commons “would increase the flexibility” of federal law to address automated and connected technologies used in vehicles, a member of parliament suggested Wednesday. “Shifts in the global technology landscape are placing a growing

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79% of U.S. insurance CEOs confident of growth prospects, 82% looking to disrupt: KPMG study

September 15, 2017 by Canadian Underwriter

The majority of insurance company CEOs in the United States – 79% – are confident about the growth prospects of their organizations over the next three years as they are looking to innovate processes and implement new technologies in response

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Shifting risk responsibilities to front line will help reduce vulnerabilities: PwC Canada

July 19, 2017 by Canadian Underwriter

Canadian businesses are more vulnerable to disruption than their global counterparts and need to make each line of service responsible for risk decisions, monitoring, oversight and assessment of vulnerabilities to bolster protection, suggest Canadian insights from a recent PwC report.

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Incremental disruption in insurance industry “like death by a thousand cuts”: Insurance Analytics Canada speaker

June 30, 2017 Jason Contant, Online Editor

The insurance industry has been very incremental in dealing with disruption and needs a drastic shift from historical analysis to predictive, future risk models, a speaker suggested on Wednesday at the Insurance Analytics Canada Summit. “You cannot disrupt with incrementalism,”

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Cyber-related disruption as business advantage developing in manufacturing sector: Verizon

June 30, 2017 by Angela Stelmakowich

Manufacturing is witnessing a significant hike in internal cyber threat actors linked to nation state schemes to disrupt operations and allow chosen businesses to gain competitive advantage and market share, David Ostertag, global investigation manager for Verizon’s investigative response unit,

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Disruption spawns opportunities for middle market, but risk preparedness concerning: Capital One

June 28, 2017 Disruption

There appears to be a divide between middle-market companies fully expecting that disruption will unfold and taking concrete steps to address whatever risk that change may bring, suggest findings of a new study from New York-based Capital One Commercial Bank.