I had the good fortune to attend Gadget Show Live this year – a day off secured on the proviso I wrote a blog post. There were a few things that were a surprise to me that I thought it worth sharing here. What’s running computers… In terms of presence of platform Android won. There [...]

In conversations with insurers globally we at Celent are hearing of a new approach to analytics. Perhaps not called Big Data but a different approach, one that seeks to leverage data far more quickly and be more tolerant of the errors in the data. There is a move to understanding that all data is useful, [...]

On 15th of March Celent held our creative disruption event at the Tower of London – no small irony to be discussing the future of insurance surrounded by such rich history. Celent’s Catherine Stagg-Macey opened proceedings with a discussion about how quickly technology is moving and by providing a concrete example of that in the [...]

With only two sleeps left until the 2012 apocalypse (has it’s own Wikipedia page here) I thought it worth working through an insurance scenario regarding the end of the world as we know it. I won’t go into detail but Friday the 21st of December marks the start of the 13th b’ak’tun or 13.0.0.0.0 (5126 [...]

Here we on the twelfth day of the twelfth month of twenty twelve. (A friend helpfully pointed out we’re 800 years late for 12 12 1212). A quick look at Wikipedia shows the importance that 12 has had in our history, almost regardless of place of birth or religion it seems. It seemed a good [...]

It seems like every time I have set out to discuss some new technology event a new one has popped up. It has been an epic year for news and new gadgets for all of us. This coupled with my discussions with insurers in recent weeks on the subject of Bring Your Own Device and [...]

Lately people have joined Apple events hoping for something completely new and outlandish, some perhaps hoping Apple will slip up and over the last couple of years there has been talk of disappointment after then events. Indeed it’s becoming so hard for Apple to keep anything secret now that there are few surprises – but [...]

So June 2012 was an incredible month in the world of technology. Firstly Apple opened it’s developer conference with an hour dedicated to it’s PC era products – the MacBook. The iOS announcements seem to hint at a growing divide between Apple and Google preferring to go with a hand picked set of partners. One [...]

In this case the developer conference is Apple’s WWDC, scheduled for 10am PT today (6pm for me in the UK). There’s the usual round up of expected announcements along with a web based keynote bingo app. Why so much interest? The position of the iPhone versus Android as leading market share in smart phones is [...]

Last week we held the innovation and insight event in Boston where we discussed creative disruption and emerging technologies and their effects on the insurance industry. Since coming back to the UK a few press releases and blog posts have caught my eye that feed well into this discussion. The first is from Robert Scoble, [...]