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Optimism leads Pessimism by a score of 13 to 2. The Pessimism coaching staff is still plotting its comeback at IASA, but I have to say that the odds of getting Pessimism into the win column are very low.

The use of telematics devices in insurance have been around for several years, with companies like Aviva (UK) and Progressive (US) taking on the pioneer role in early 2000s. But there have been many dissenters. One large insurer told me that they didn’t see the point in telematics offerings and it would cannibalise their current [...]

Celent recently conducted its third Peer Networking Event, exploring the topics of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Digital Commerce. Alternative approaches, successes and gaps were actively exchanged by the 40 participants, representing 13 carriers. We would like to thank The Hartford Insurance Company for hosting the session. The morning kicked off with a presentation by [...]

My email inbox has been even more active than usual this week. It seems that many of you—from all over the globe—received an invitation to Celent’s CIO event in Paris. And the best part was that the invitation went out once in English, and a second time in French! My apologies to those of you [...]

For those of us with limited artistic talent, paint by numbers may seem like a great way to display creativity. But there are those lines that you have to stay within and someone else is telling you what to paint. Is it really a creative outlet? Would a blank canvas allow that creativity to flow [...]

At my prior position, I worked with a lot of vendors and their product teams. We were usually on the leading edge of SOA development and strategy and one of the most common requests I had of the vendors was, “can you just bring together some other insurance clients so we can talk without you?”. [...]