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Insurance & Technology
January 26, 2005
Anthony O'Donnell |
Engineering Underwriting Gary Kaplan, chief underwriting officer and head of the Technical Center strategic service unit for Zurich Financial Services subsidiary Zurich North America's commercial business division brings a more methodical and technology-driven approach to the company.   |
Insurance & Technology
September 9, 2009
Anthony O'Donnell |
Zurich Canada Selects Guidewire Claims System Zurich expects the system to deliver greater operational efficiency, improved service, and the ability to attract top talent to the company's claims team. |
CIO
December 23, 2008
Jarina D'Auria |
Five Things Judy Estrin Has Learned About Closing the Innovation Gap In her book, Closing the Innovation Gap, former Cisco CTO Judy Estrin shares why CIOs and other leaders must nurture innovation to fend off global competition. |
Insurance & Technology
February 6, 2008
Anthony O'Donnell |
Zurich Appoints Axel Lehmann To New Risk Officer Role As Zurich Financial Services Group's new chief risk officer former CEO of Zurich North America Axel Lehmann will also take responsibility for IT. |
Insurance & Technology
March 7, 2008
Anthony O'Donnell |
Zurich's Michael Paravicini Drives Global IT Unification Zurich Financial Services CIO Michael Paravicini says the company's IT organization enables a more innovative product creation, better distribution and servicing solutions, as well as better data and customer management. |
Bank Systems & Technology
March 29, 2006
Katherine Burger |
You're Wearing That? Innovation is not just about new products and services, but also encompasses business model innovation, process innovation, culture innovation and management system innovation. |
CIO
November 15, 2005
Michael Schrage |
Innovation Alchemy One of the most important things CIOs can create is the right mix of healthy environment and reliable process in order to foster innovation. |
CIO
March 25, 2011
Joe Eng |
Make IT Innovation Everyone's Job How JetBlue's CIO instills a culture of innovation throughout his IT organization. |
IndustryWeek
October 20, 2010 |
Innovation Nation? Manufacturers are more involved than other industries in innovation, but engagement is hardly widespread. |
CRM
June 24, 2011
Elisa O'Donnell |
Kill the Office of Innovation What it really takes to create a thriving innovation capacity within an organization. |
Insurance & Technology
May 13, 2005
Katherine Burger |
Uncompromising Strategy As the global property/casualty market softens and underwriting expertise becomes more critical than ever before, this company's CEO is confident that technology prowess will help Zurich Financial Services come out on top. |
Fast Company
April 2008 |
Making Innovation Work Approaching innovation systematically and being ruthless about the allocation of resources to it are keys to a successful business. Here are some simple mistakes made by companies that muffled innovation. |
IndustryWeek
October 1, 2008
Jill Jusko |
Measured Success: By The Numbers Customer satisfaction is a popular metric by which to gauge the success of innovation efforts. But it's not the only one. |
IndustryWeek
January 31, 2012
Josh Cable |
GE Barometer: Executives Believe Innovation and Growth Go Hand-in-Hand However, uncertainty in the global economy is curbing their companies' appetites for risk and making it harder for them to find capital. |
CIO
March 1, 2004 |
The Return of Innovation Make no mistake: Despite the past three years of economic doldrums, innovation is alive and well. |
CRM
January 2010
Joshua Weinberger |
CRM on Twitter: January 2010 The definition of innovation... Costs of innovation... How to measure innovation... Open innovation... etc. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
July 1, 2013
Richie Etwaru |
Innovation Calls Across the C-suite: Lessons From Wall Street The lifeblood of the life sciences industry is continuous innovation; it is not a business that can survive by standing still. |
Inc.
June 2008
Jane Berentson |
Editor's Letter Innovation often begins with a clever entrepreneur who manages not only to conceive a great idea but also to finance it, employ people to improve it, build a company around it - and, eventually, see it to glorious and profitable fruition. |
Bank Technology News
June 2010
John Pyrovolakis |
Innovators: A Call to Action The Innovation Accelerator wishes to leverage great and innovative technologies developed in our nation's research universities and federal research labs on the strength of federal funding to empower our nation's banking industry. |
IndustryWeek
January 1, 2009
Jill Jusko |
Myths of Innovation A new report by Accenture and The Manufacturing Institute aims to help manufacturers find that right road to innovation, offering paths to explore as well as summarizing the current state of innovation. |
IndustryWeek
October 1, 2007
Jill Jusko |
Innovation Grade: Improvement Needed One would think that U.S. manufacturing firms were zeroed in on improving their innovation efforts. But, new research suggests that their efforts are struggling. |
BusinessWeek
April 15, 2010
James P. Andrew |
What Executives Make of Innovation The head of the global innovation practice at Boston Consulting Group dives more deeply into the findings from this year's survey taken to compile the ranking of the most innovative companies. |
Insurance & Technology
February 16, 2010
Anthony O'Donnell |
Zurich Japan Deploys Guidewire ClaimCenter Under the internal name of Z-Trust, ClaimCenter currently processes Zurich Japan's auto and motorcycle claims and will be extended to other lines of business in subsequent deployment phases. |
Wall Street & Technology
June 16, 2006
Bob Violino |
Top-Down Innovation CEOs have another - and an increasingly urgent - assignment to add to their leadership portfolios: driving innovation and tearing down barriers that may prevent it. Technology is playing a large part in new business models. |
IndustryWeek
June 23, 2010 |
Consider This -- Five Key Concepts for Sustainable Innovation Mastering these fundamentals can stimulate your innovation efforts and the global economy. |
BusinessWeek
November 17, 2003
Samuel J. Palmisano |
How The U.S. Can Keep Its Innovation Edge Where, how, and why innovation happens is changing. If we're not careful, the U.S. will fall out of step with these new realities, and innovators and risk-takers will go elsewhere -- because they can. |
AFP eWire
October 14, 2008 |
Fundraising Strategies: Make Time for Innovation In fundraising and the nonprofit sector as a whole, the sky is the limit for new ideas and better methods. But the trick, say the authors of a recent W.K. Kellogg Foundation report, is to incorporate a culture of systematic innovation. |
CRM
January 2010
David Myron |
A New Decade Brings New Ideas Organizations must position themselves in a way that promotes innovation. |
CIO
August 15, 2001
Sandy Kendall |
Innovation Generation This year's CIO-100 honorees stay ahead of the pack by creating breakthroughs in Products, Relationships and Processes... |
CIO
August 15, 2001
Sandy kendall |
How Things Change Five top gurus' views on innovation principles and practices... |
Insurance & Technology
April 8, 2009
Anthony O'Donnell |
Main Street America Group Names Ron James CIO The 30-year insurance technology veteran will support the Jacksonville, Fla.-based P&C carrier's continuing focus on ease-of-doing-business for its agent customers. |
IndustryWeek
December 1, 2008
Jill Jusko |
Kraft Crafts an Open Innovation Strategy Consumer packaged goods manufacturer Kraft finds innovation value in collaborating with suppliers. |
Insurance & Technology
July 29, 2008
Anthony O'Donnell |
Zurich Launches Emerging Tech Business Producer Site The speed at which technology businesses develop can be challenging to insurance distributors trying to understand clients' needs |
CIO
December 14, 2010 |
How to Restart Innovation CIOs reinvest savings and focus staff on user benefits to get creative ideas flowing. |
IndustryWeek
May 1, 2008
Jill Jusko |
Bookshelf: Innovation to the Core: A Blueprint for Transforming the Way your Company Innovates In their new book, Peter Skarzynski and Rowan Gibson detail how to evaluate new growth opportunities, provide guidelines to manage innovation resources and suggest design rules to improve a corporation's innovation pipeline. |
Information Today
September 22, 2015 |
Thomson Reuters Rolls Out Website for Examining Global Innovation The website offers the annual Top 100 Global Innovators list as well as information from the "The Future Is Open: 2015 State of Innovation" report. |
Insurance & Technology
September 14, 2004
Anthony O'Donnell |
Mega-Deal a Bellwether? Seeking to transform itself into a nimble, line-of-business oriented enterprise, Zurich Financial Services has signed a major applications outsourcing agreement with CSC to support all of the carrier's lines of business. |
Global Services
November 29, 2007 |
The Future of Innovation The challenges are there, but so are the opportunities to open up vast new global markets through innovation. |
HBS Working Knowledge
March 20, 2006
Huston & Sakkab |
P&G's New Innovation Model Procter & Gamble's assessment of its aging innovation process and the development of connect and develop. |
IndustryWeek
November 16, 2011
David Peace |
Strategies for Success in Product Innovation Two strategies prime your pipeline for faster, more profitable product development. |
IndustryWeek
January 1, 2007
Jill Jusko |
Consumer Products Companies Best Practices -- A Team Effort Consumer products companies embrace collaboration to speed innovation and product development efforts. |
BusinessWeek
April 10, 2006
Jena McGregor |
Dawn Of The Idea Czar A thirst for internal growth across Corporate America has made innovation a critical management mandate. As a result, the initials "CIO" have increasingly begun to refer not to chief information officers but to yet another C-suite label, the chief innovation officer. |
Insurance & Technology
December 13, 2006
Anthony O'Donnell |
Location, Location, Location Insurers' capability to respond quickly to catastrophes - on whatever scale - is extremely relevant to their mission. |
Insurance & Technology
April 6, 2006
Anthony O'Donnell |
Maier Globalizes Zurich N.A. Andy Maier is forging a dramatic change in Zurich Financial Services' Schaumburg, Ill.-based outpost's IT landscape. |
Chemistry World
February 2008
Yfke Hager |
A Town Called Science An ambitious project in Switzerland aims to create the world's first fully integrated science city. |
IndustryWeek
February 17, 2010
Josh Cable |
Building an Innovation Culture For innovation to flourish, executives must be committed, patient and ready to lead by example. |
HBS Working Knowledge
December 5, 2005
Govindarajan & Trimble |
Not All Innovations Are Equal Innovative strategies alone -- without changes to either the underlying technologies or the products and services sold to customers -- drive the success of many companies. But now, the long-term survival of a company depends on strategic innovation more than ever before. |
Entrepreneur
December 2008
Chris Penttila |
Know Your Return on Innovation Endless ideas and prototypes don't mean anything if they're sitting on shelves. Get your innovations out there, and then get tracking. |
Bank Technology News
July 2011
Howard Rubin |
IT Austerity Is A Mistake With the intensity of technology in banking, it should be clear that the innovation "engine" of the sector must have continued funding and is the ultimate competitive focus. |
Global Services
November 4, 2008
Jolie Newman |
The Innovation Imperative Understand the essential nature of innovation in outsourcing engagements. |
