Steve Leigh from the insurance team here – I wanted to let everyone know that I along with two colleagues here at Gartner (Juergen Weiss and Stephen Forte), will be talking about social networking for insurance in our upcoming teleconference on November 6th. It seems to me that there remain considerable questions about what [...]
Social Networking for Insurance Depends on a More Concrete Commitment to Achieve Business Value
October 30th, 2009 · 2 Comments
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Let’s Meet in Cannes!
October 15th, 2009 · 4 Comments
From Peter Redshaw> Within the Banking and Investment Services team, we continue to receive a wide range of enquiries from our financial services clients. What is clear from these ongoing interactions with clients is that time is of the essence – time to plan and form strategies is in short supply, and clients are increasingly [...]
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Risk Management and Social Media: A Paradigm Shift
February 9th, 2009 · 26 Comments
Maureen O’Neil here. During recent interactions with clients, I wasn’t surprised to hear that many are considering social media initiatives. That’s because the fastest growing segment of Web content is blogs, message boards and social communities. These forms of social networking upend the traditional form of top-down information dispersal because information freely flows in and [...]
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Insurers: Be Prepared to Ramp up your Risk Management IT Spending
October 30th, 2008 · 17 Comments
Maureen O’Neil and Juergen Weiss here. Although the worldwide insurance markets have not yet been as severely impacted as the banking industry, it is already obvious that a new wave of regulation will wash over the industry. This new wave of regulation will extend beyond Solvency II, Sarbanes-Oxley and the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and [...]
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