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Six Things |December 7, 2021 by Insurance Thought Leadership

IoT Comes Into Focus Paul Carroll, Editor-in-Chief of ITL Now that we’ve been talking about the Internet of Things for a decade-plus and have been deploying it for several years, reality and fantasy are separating out. A new report from McKi...

Posted: Dec 08, 2021

IoT Comes Into Focus by Paul Carroll

Now that we’ve been talking about the Internet of Things for a decade-plus and have been deploying it for several years, reality and fantasy are separating out. A new report from McKinsey offers some sharp insights both into how the IoT will...

Posted: Dec 07, 2021

ITL FOCUS: Smart Home by Insurance Thought Leadership

December 2021 FOCUS OF THE MONTH Smart Home FROM THE EDITOR For nearly 30 years, I’ve been hearing about smart homes. Even before a commercial version of the internet browser was invented in the early 1990s, the rich, geeky types I dealt wit...

Posted: Dec 01, 2021

Premature Failure in CPVC Pipes by Dan Robles

This paper identifies a series of event...

Posted: Dec 01, 2021

Six Things | November 30th, 2021 by Insurance Thought Leadership

Time to Get Rid of the IT Department? Paul Carroll, Editor-in-Chief of ITL An essay published last week by a principal research scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management says it’s time to do away with the IT department, a stalwart of corpora...

Posted: Nov 30, 2021

5 Trends to Watch in Commercial Auto by Steve McOrmond

According to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), the top 24 commercial auto insurers write more than $45 billion in premiums, but for the last decade commercial auto insurance has been a challenging and mostly unprofitable...

Posted: Nov 29, 2021

AI-Powered Chatbots: A Better Experience by Michael de Waal

Here is Part One of two parts on improving the customer experience. AI-powered chatbots pack more power than simple rule-based chatbots. As opposed to pre-programmed “if this, then that” rule-based chatbots, AI bots use algorithms and natural lang...

Posted: Nov 29, 2021

Time to Get Rid of the IT Department? by Paul Carroll

An essay published last week by a principal research scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management says it’s time to do away with the IT department, a stalwart of corporate organizations since the dawn of the Computer Age in the 1950s. He&...

Posted: Nov 29, 2021

5 Questions for Matteo Carbone on Smart Homes by Insurance Thought Leadership

As part of this month’s ITL Focus on smart homes, we spoke with Matteo Carbone, the founder and director of the IoT Insurance Observatory, about how far the technology and adoption have progressed and where the market goes from here. ITL: Let’s st...

Posted: Nov 29, 2021

A Commentary on Agents & Brokers | December by Paul Carroll

When Agents Become Cyborgs The Willis Towers Watson report on insurtechs for the second quarter found that fully 55% of all deal activity related to distribution.  Many of those deals related to attempts to circumvent the traditional network....

Posted: Nov 24, 2021