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Insurance & Technology May 6, 2009 Nathan Conz |
2009 IT Budgets: Insurers Value Long-term Strategy Over Short-term Tactical Gains In an effort to avoid sacrificing long-term strategic plans for short-term tactical gains, those insurance carriers that are able to are demonstrating patience with regards to their 2009 IT spending plans. |
Insurance & Technology June 1, 2007 Nathan Conz |
Forrester Researcher Predicts Increased Insurance Carrier IT Spending in 2007 Insurance IT budgets will increase 7 percent in 2007, according to a Forrester Research study, driven in part by more legacy system replacement. |
Insurance & Technology May 16, 2007 Anthony O'Donnell |
Lowenthal Hired As NYMAGIC CIO Craig Lowenthal took on his new post as CIO and SVP of New York-based specialty lines P&C carrier NYMAGIC with a view toward a new challenge. |
Insurance & Technology March 25, 2008 Anthony O'Donnell |
Economy Portends Insurance IT Budget Cuts The sudden economic downturn owing to the subprime lending crisis will likely blunt insurers' IT investment plans during the next budget cycle, if not sooner, but transformation initiatives will be regarded as essential rather than discretionary. |
Insurance & Technology November 17, 2007 Anthony O'Donnell |
Craig Lowenthal Handles Carrier Systems Again For NYMAGIC After a stint at start-up broker Integro, Lowenthal returned to the carrier side of the industry earlier this year as CIO and senior vice president of specialty lines P&C carrier NYMAGIC. |
Insurance & Technology January 19, 2010 Anthony O'Donnell |
Lowenthal Leaves NYMAGIC CIO Post Craig Lowenthal was hired by New York Marine and General Insurance Company to build up the carrier's IT organization and replace its legacy system. |
Insurance & Technology December 16, 2008 Anthony O'Donnell |
Priorities Will Shift, But Insurers' 2009 IT Spending Remains Healthy Given the ravages the financial crisis has wrought in the insurance industry, greater cost consciousness will return to insurance IT organizations. |
Insurance & Technology August 7, 2008 Anthony O'Donnell |
Policy Admin System Replacement: Insurers Shift Focus From Systems to Functionalities Interboro Insurance Co.'s policy administration replacement initiative was in key respects a classic case. |
Insurance & Technology May 5, 2010 Anthony O'Donnell |
Novarica: Carriers Replace For Growth, Not Efficiency Anticipating a large number of policy administration projects likely to be undertaken in the near future, Novarica's reports reflect peer experience over the last decade. |
Insurance & Technology April 1, 2009 Anthony O'Donnell |
Despite Downturn, Insurers Remain Committed to Core Systems Evolution Despite the gloom that has consumed the financial services industry, most insurance companies remain bullish on technology investment and many are looking to build out policy admin capabilities to position themselves for growth |
Insurance & Technology October 20, 2009 Anthony O'Donnell |
IT Departments Challenged in a Year of Crisis and Learning In driving senior technology executives to do more with less, the financial crisis clarified the capabilities that distinguish the most successful insurance CIOs in a rapidly changing business environment. |
Insurance & Technology January 11, 2008 Nathan Conz |
Diamond Digital IQ Study: Insurers Yet To Establish True Partnership Between Business and IT While many insurers identify IT/business alignment as priority, few involve CIOs in the business strategy development process. |
Insurance & Technology March 5, 2008 David West |
Exclusive Research Report: Insurance IT Spending Slowdown Already Upon Us, TowerGroup Says Although TowerGroup previously observed an upward trend in insurance carriers' IT spending with an anticipated slowing in spending by 2009, the latest research suggests that the slowdown already is upon us. |
Insurance & Technology November 10, 2008 Anthony O'Donnell |
IT Will Power Insurance Industry Response to Crisis Technology spending will be a critical factor for insurers wishing to both take advantage of opportunities provided by the current crisis and address heightened compliance and risk management concerns. |
Insurance & Technology January 25, 2005 Cynthia Saccocia |
Did You Say Controlled Tech Spending? Aw, Not Again! Insurance is an industry that reacts decisively to its business cycles and urgently to intrusions of reality such as catastrophic claims, economic issues and regulation. |
Insurance & Technology October 7, 2005 Anthony O'Donnell |
Partners in Strategy As insurance technology continues to mature, so does the appreciation of IT - and the CIO's role - on the part of the business. In an era of increased technology investment, these factors are transforming today's senior insurance technology officers into influential strategic partners. |
Insurance & Technology March 6, 2008 Catherine Stagg-Macey |
International Insurance IT Executives Continue To Invest, Priorities Vary International insurance IT executives in EUrope, Asia and Latin America will continue to invest in technology in 2008, but their spending priorities reflect unique challenges of their local markets. |
CIO April 1, 2003 Lorraine Cosgrove Ware |
What You Have to Say - Survey Results A year after our first "State of the CIO" survey, more than 500 IT leaders tell us they're spending more time on alignment and less time on staffing and new technologies. And, needless to say, they're still wrestling with scarce resources. |
Bank Systems & Technology January 30, 2005 Antone Gonsalves |
CIOs Shop For Tools to Help Grow Businesses Focus has shifted from products that will help control costs to those that can help companies grow their businesses, according to a survey of more than 1,300 CIOs in 30 countries by Gartner. |
Insurance & Technology July 24, 2009 Anthony O'Donnell |
Novarica: Tech Transforming P&C Claims Amid Downturn Carriers are moving forward with existing core claims systems initiatives and investing in emerging technologies such as analytics, fraud detection, geographic information systems, mobile applications and Web 2.0 to drive operational efficiency and improved customer service. |
Insurance & Technology January 5, 2007 John Burke |
Future Proofing the Insurance Enterprise Insurance carriers continuously reexamine and often redefine business models, turning to IT as an enabler for transformation. |
Insurance & Technology January 25, 2005 Anthony O'Donnell |
Spending Outlook 2005 budget trends: We will be investing in the self-service channel, Voice over IP and mobile technology... The efficiencies we've developed and deployed over the past three years have allowed us to decrease... etc. |
Insurance & Technology February 21, 2008 Anthony O'Donnell |
Novarica Survey Finds P&C Insurance CEOs' Tech Knowledge Wanting While chief executive officers of property/casualty insurers have advanced in their understanding of the value of technology to the business in recent years, the results of a Novarica survey suggest that some glaring gaps remain and that continuing education is in order. |
Insurance & Technology December 15, 2009 Anthony O'Donnell et al. |
4 Technology Solutions That Sizzle While insurers often are cautious in their adoption of emerging technologies, carriers are investing in four solutions -- cloud computing, mobile, analytics and social networking -- that are just too transformative to ignore. |
Insurance & Technology December 8, 2008 Anthony O'Donnell |
Insurance Technology Outlook 2009: Sudden Change Though the financial services industry has seen a precipitous change in the business environment and will adopt austerity measures, insurers are likely to be opportunistic in their technology investments. |
Insurance & Technology February 8, 2004 Jamie Bisker |
Core Systems: Journey to the Center of Insurance An analysis of the state of core systems, and how to create renewable systems, in the insurance industry |
InternetNews April 3, 2008 David Needle |
Recession a Factor in CIO Budget Plans? Gartner survey indicates no planned changes in IT budgets globally, but the story's different in the U.S. |
Insurance & Technology January 5, 2007 Marcus Ryu |
Legacy Systems, Legacy Workforce Aging is the trend that should concern insurance CIOs most. |
Insurance & Technology August 11, 2010 Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Republic Idemnity CIO Discusses Claims Modernization Following a successful claims system replacement, Republic Indemnity's Rao Tadepalli offers tips to insurers looking to modernize their claims platforms. |
Insurance & Technology May 7, 2009 Michael A. Costonis et al. |
Survival Skills: Insurance CIOs Must Adapt to Changing Market Accenture consultants identify the traits that high-performance insurance CIOs must exhibit as they adapt their skill sets and evolve a new IT strategy in response to post-crisis challenges. |
Bank Systems & Technology September 24, 2009 Maria Bruno-Britz |
Bank CIOs Must Continue to Innovate While Cutting Costs More than ever before, bank CIOs must do more with less, continuing to provide business value through technology innovation while also finding ways to improve efficiency. |
InternetNews January 18, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner |
CIOs See Steady Growth in IT Budgets Research firm forecasts IT budgets to rise by 2.5 percent in 2005. |
Insurance & Technology October 5, 2006 Barry Rabkin |
What Makes a Successful CIO? The CIOs who are most successful in the insurance industry are strong leaders and good businesspeople. |
Insurance & Technology October 6, 2008 Nathan Conz |
2008's Elite 8 Describe the CIO of the Future What challenges will insurance CIOs of the next 10 years face? How will the role change? This year's Elite 8 honorees draw on their experience to answer the question: "What will the CIO job be 10 years from now?" |
CIO October 31, 2008 Kim S. Nash |
IT Slashes Budgets, Starts Layoffs: Exclusive CIO Survey How much has IT budget anxiety grown? Forty percent of CIOs plan to cut their budgets from last year's level. |
CRM January 18, 2013 |
Gartner CIO Survey Shows Digital Technologies Are Top Priorities in 2013 Cloud, mobile, social, big data, and analytics are among the disruptive technologies cited. |
Insurance & Technology January 5, 2007 Matthew Josefowicz |
Responding to a Changing Market: The Core Is Key Core systems replacement has been compared to open-heart surgery -- it is one of the most drastic changes that insurers can make to their IT infrastructures. |
Insurance & Technology February 5, 2007 Lisa Valentine |
Start Me Up An interview with Craig Lowenthal, CIO of insurance brokerage and risk management start-up Integro on his plans to build the company's infrastructure, add more functionality to the tech platform and how he plans to make it easier to do business with Integro. |
CIO January 13, 2010 Johnson & Levien |
CIO's December 2009 Economic Impact Survey Results Exclusive survey of heads of IT suggests budgets are continuing to stabilize and large companies, at least, are opening their checkbooks |
CIO October 5, 2009 Carolyn Johnson |
More CIOs Planning to Spend Money, Hire IT Staff More CIOs are expecting to increase their budgets than at any time since mid-2008. There's some good news about staffing, too. |
Insurance & Technology January 25, 2005 Anthony O'Donnell |
A Look Ahead It's clear that the expectations for the insurance CIOs who survived 2004 will be just as great in 2005. In fact, those expectations are more comprehensive than ever, with greater consequences for the enterprise. |
CIO March 1, 2002 |
The 2002 State of the CIO Survey Our survey findings highlight the fact that the CIO's time is spent more on strategy than pure technology... |
Insurance & Technology October 6, 2008 Anthony O'Donnell |
A Decade of Change in Insurance IT Since I&T recognized the first Elite 8 insurance technology executives in 1999, the world has changed a great deal, and so has the insurance technology realm. |
Insurance & Technology October 9, 2007 Anthony O'Donnell |
Identifying the Insurance & Technology Elite 8 Insurance CIO Insurance industry analysts discuss what characteristics distinguish the most successful senior insurance technology executives deserving of recognition. |
CIO January 15, 2004 Michael Schrage |
What Goes On Behind Your Back Your company may outsource IT, but your business units will build their own IT systems anyway. Here's how to make sure you stay in the loop. |
Insurance & Technology September 23, 2009 Rod Travers |
Your Attention, Please: Insurance CIOs Must Focus on Core Capabilities and Minimize Distractions While every company has unique needs, there are a few areas of focus that just about every CIO should be thinking about. |
CIO June 15, 2002 John Edwards |
Reaching Back in Time New tools give legacy apps a better life on the Web. |
Insurance & Technology September 13, 2007 Lisa Valentine |
Life of the South CIO Bob Fullington Utilizes Tech Infrastructure to Drive Growth Life of the South CIO Bob Fullington intends to leverage technology to drive growth. |
CIO January 5, 2015 Kim S. Nash |
CIOs Need to Snap Out of Complacency Your business colleagues aren't as impressed with you as you are. Our 14th annual State of the CIO research rewrites your priorities for 2015. |
CIO March 15, 2006 Thomas Wailgum |
Untangling Telecom: How to Get More and Spend Less Negotiating for networked telecom services is now largely the responsibility of CIOs. Fortunately, help is on the way. |