Blockchain in the insurance sector

PwC

“22% of insurance, asset and wealth management business is at risk to disruption from FinTechs according to our Global FinTech survey. Almost three quarters of insurance leader surveyed in the survey considered that insurance would be the most disrupted industry. Meanwhile, complex processes with multiple interactions, duplication of data entry and risk of fraud slows down traditional players’ ability to react.” PwC

Source: https://www.pwc.co.uk/financial-services/fintech/assets/blockchain-in-insurance.pdf

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Burnout and insurance companies?

Help your employees gain their full potential and avoid burnouts

1 employee in 5 considers her/himself to be tired or lacking energy. Most employees also report a high level of tiredness after lunch.

What if we could offer your employees to have a high level of energy the whole day long?

The general lack of energy as well as the post-lunch fatigue represent a substantial loss of productivity for companies and stress for employees.

This online module will guide employees through a quick analysis of their present situation, their needs and will give a first assessment of their present level of fitness as well as solutions easily implementable within minutes and measure quickly the result: more energy and more productivity. According to NASA, some strategies can improve by up to 35% employees’ reactivity and productivity in the afternoon.

(Only available in French for now. English, German, Spanish, Italian roll-out scheduled for 2020)

Stéphane Tétart, naturopath, is the author of several books about health and well-being, including “Stop the fatigue” and the best-seller “Secrets of naturopaths”. He has helped people regain their full potential and productivity at work for more than 10 years after experiencing a burnout himself.

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The Digital Nomads of Insurance

This video about some of our co-founders – the “INGAGE Brothers” – shows that they also “Think Different” in their daily lives. INGAGE’s concept of a “virtual first” company with digitization of all its processes is at its core. 

 

 

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Agility and Insurance: antonyms?

Insurance companies and agility

If you have found your way to this blog, it is quite probable that you work or have worked for an insurance or reinsurance company, or maybe a brokerage firm in this industry.

We see more and more projects popping up in the industry where companies claim to implement the “Agile” methodology. According to your experience, is/was this company truly agile?

Join our discussion! (members only)

 

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Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity Insurance

Have you considered your exposure to cyber risks?

“Cybersecurity insurance is designed to mitigate losses from a variety of cyber incidents, including data breaches, business interruption, and network damage. A robust cybersecurity insurance market could help reduce the number of successful cyber attacks by: (1) promoting the adoption of preventative measures in return for more coverage; and (2) encouraging the implementation of best practices by basing premiums on an insured’s level of self-protection. Many companies forego available policies, however, citing as rationales the perceived high cost of those policies, confusion about what they cover, and uncertainty that their organizations will suffer a cyber attack. In recent years, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has engaged key stakeholders to address this emerging cyber risk area.”

Read on at https://www.dhs.gov/cisa/cybersecurity-insurance

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Yet another successful project!

Celebrating with clients!

While our team is located around the world and while we work remotely most of the time, we like to meet our clients physically at least at the beginning of projects and at the end to celebrate our common success together!

Thanks to this client for a wonderful time (and an amazing lunch!)

 

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Innovation in Insurance?

Was it the first website of a Norwegian insurance company?

Many years ago, a Norwegian insurance company called at that time Uni Storebrand, gave the chance to the young and fresh graduate that I was to work as a trainee. The internship was to take place in Oslo. I had never been to Norway before so it was very exciting to have such a great opportunity! Discovering new cultures and working abroad was my dream.

Picture: A wonderful traineeship in a very supportive team, the marketing team of Uni Storebrand, 1995. It was not my idea to sit on the table. 🙂

So, as the date of the beginning of the internship drew closer, I flew to Oslo to get ready for what would be one of my most interesting internships. I had studied business and IT was my passion (together with learning languages of course). The person in charge of internships considered that I would be a good fit for the marketing team.

My boss was a friendly Norwegian woman. She was leading the marketing team in a professional and very human way. Trust was the key. I liked her management style very much. She gave me the task of finding an interesting way to introduce Uni Storebrand’s products to potential leads. Creating another flyer was an option, but she was very open to new ideas and would be supportive of doing something more innovative for clients.
After a few discussions and drafts, we developed the idea of preparing some 3.5″ floppy disks with some information about Storebrand’s insurance products. It would be different from all these flyers that people got and it would actually help recipients get more useful information and maybe even calculate premiums. Wow! 🙂 (mind you, this was 1995…)

As I worked on my assignment with enthusiasm fueled by the support from the marketing team, I remembered something that my friend Greg A., a doctor from Florida, had showed me a few years earlier when I was on holiday at their place. It was a network of networks that he used to share information with fellow medical specialists, digitally. There was no need to send disks around! It was better for the environment and faster. I did not know much more than this, but I got the green light to look into how to replace these 3.5″ disks by a solution based on that network of networks. In any case, I was an intern and we could try a few things.

That network of networks was called the Internet. It was a world with then-strange concepts such as websites, HTML, web servers, hosting, hyperlinks. At that time, there were 23,500 websites (see http://www.internetlivestats.com/total-number-of-websites). The year before, in 1994, there were 2,738 websites, 130 websites in 1993 and 1 in August 1991. As I am writing this text, the statistics on that webpage show 1,902,821,963, with several new websites being added every single second.

It was not clear to me how all these concepts and technologies worked together but a telecommunication company I visited assured me they could host a website. They didn’t have more information than this. Now, I had to see how to create one. Luckily, someone had written a book about this intriguing HTML. So I started studying it and created my first webpage! It was actually quite simple, once you knew… as you can imagine, it had an amazing design: something like “Hello World” in black over a white background… Wait, there was also a picture and even a hyperlink! Hehe…

Thanks to my colleagues, we soon had the content about each of the products, in Norwegian. Then, I was very excited to create my first “official” default.html page, i.e. the main page. It contained 10 bullet points, with each of them linking to another page. Last but really not least, we finally managed to upload it on a webserver, and there we were, Uni Storebrand’s first website was born!

 

 

 

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