How Technology Amplifies Evil By Chunka Mui A new book shows that the internet’s capacity for good is matched only by its capacity to empower evil.
The Right Way to Tackle Gender Bias By Sheryl Medeiros Despite proof that companies with women in leadership significantly outperform peers, the approach to diversity is all wrong.
5 Challenges Facing Startups (Part 1) By Manny Soar Christian Czempiel Finding “Blue Ocean” is challenging in a low-growth, large market, and startups won't produce a surge of growth for insurance.
4 Ways Social Media Can Win a Promotion In failing to use social networking to its fullest career-boosting benefits, insurance pros are missing significant professional opportunities.
How to Exceed Customer Expectations By Donna Peeples Should every company try a Zappos “whatever it takes” approach to customer service? No. Insurance is different.
3 Ways to Overcome a Career Slump Everyone hits a career plateau -- stay too long and you face burnout and decreased creativity and productivity.
Can We Come to Grips With the Zeitgeist? If income equality is one of the key issues for insurance worldwide, won’t it also be one of the key drivers of industry change?
The Wisdom of Doing Things Wrong A smart new book offers insights on why we generally do nothing in the face of big change -- and how to get past that natural tendency.
The Experience/Efficiency Paradox By Rory Yates Insurers must move from the manufacturing era (efficiency through administrative scale) to the ecosystem era (maximizing the value of a relationship).
Changing Expectations on Mobile Payments By Julie Schieni 41% of millennials with insurance purchased it with their mobile device, and other generations are moving in that direction, too.
Are We Losing Our Negotiating Power? By Taylor Smith John Burge The plaintiff bar has investigated a staggering amount of money to improve its data on claims settlements. Insurance industry lawyers are way behind..
Continuous Improvement Comes to Insurance By Tom Bobrowski Process intelligence tools let operations leaders “see” digital products being built, enabling use of statistical process control techniques.