When I think of Paris, I think of Eugène Delacroix and the Louvre, I think of sipping a 2012 Châteauneuf du Pape at a wrought iron table gazing out at the Eiffel Tower. The perfectly curated pairing of tradition and edginess, of form and function, in every view, every conversation, every bite of food and every sip of wine. The last thing I think of is… [...]
It’s an age-old conundrum: experience v. vitality. For one reason or another these two contesting forces seem to always find themselves in stark opposition rather than working together to find the power in their overlap. This conundrum has so ensued, in its own way, between legacy “incumbent” carriers and insurtech startups. I recently gave Mark Roth, an insurtech expert and new business developer for Dig In, [...]
Traversing We keep hearing and seeing the yelps about how “incumbent” and “legacy” carriers and their systems just won’t budge and that they are reluctant to innovate (myself included in on the yelping). We are listening to frustrated insurtech startup companies complaining that these carriers don’t know what’s best for them and that they are not understanding the immense opportunities that they are passing up. For [...]
Measurements drive marketing - marketing drives measurements. There is a symbiotic relationship between marketing and measurements that has an especially strong bond in the insurance industry because, well, insurance owes its existence to measurements and numbers (i.e. risk). This interchangeable bond only continues to strengthen as the rate at which new technology being implemented skyrockets—creating never-before-seen shifts in the legacy architecture models of carriers across [...]
As if the insurance industry was not complex enough, let’s add in a dose of AI, a pinch of ML, a dash of IoT and a garnish of Blockchain. This spread is a lot to bite off, let alone digest, but not impossible when the catalyst for their existence is broken down. Each one of these cryptic buzzwords simply solves for a human expectation, or soon-to-be [...]
