Worldwide Insurance Strategies

The global insurance industry is facing a difficult environment, undermined by challenging economic landscapes. While premiums in emerging markets and newly industrialized Asian countries are expanding at a fairly robust and resilient pace, sluggish performance is expected in the US, Western Europe, and other advanced markets. Insurers thus need to derive growth through business model improvements, even as they come under scrutiny to cope with evolving and highly competitive environments fraught with unpredictability, increasingly stringent regulatory and compliance requirements, and heighten cost pressures. This would require carriers to enhance operational flexibility and embrace strategies around streamlining processes, be innovative in product development and pricing, better engage policyholders, improve speed to market to stay competitive and adaptable, and adopt a more disciplined approached to risk management. With technology being pivotal to all these strategies, insurers' IT divisions need to continually infuse their IT policies with business goals. This is in addition to being tasked with handling technology change management, and enabling business innovation through technology pillars such as cloud computing, mobility strategies, and social media developments.

Approach

The Worldwide Insurance Strategies advisory service provides clients with guidance on the strategic implications and offers timely and actionable information on the impact of current and emerging technologies on the life and annuity and the property/casualty insurance markets as well as analysis on a firm's position within the industry. Our research advisory service provides ongoing research reports, analyst access, and admission to content-rich conferences and Webcasts.

Market Segments and Subjects Analyzed

• Customer-centricity and the investment into big data and analytics
• Distribution and channel management
• The continuing impact of regulatory and compliance changes
• The impact of cloud, mobile, and social media on the insurance industry
• Insurance opportunities in the new connected marketplace
• The changing product development process

Key Questions Answered

• How are insurers sourcing their business applications? Which are the emerging technology firms supporting the insurance industry?
• How are insurers using analytics to make better informed decisions or manage their operations?
• What are the insurance business implications of changing demographics on marketing and distribution, customer service, and product development?
• What are the technology implications for insurers of shifts in market, competitive, regulatory, and political environments?
• What are the strategic and operational implications of the impact of IT on the insurance industry: its structure, companies, customers, sales channels, and products?
• What are the implications of the changing market and competitive dynamics of technology vendors that support — or want to support — the insurance industry?

Who Should Subscribe

The Worldwide Insurance Strategies advisory service provides executives and business managers within insurance carriers and diversified financial institutions as well as technology product managers, marketers, and consultancies that support the industry with strategic advice and timely data. Our ongoing and continual interaction with our clients assists them to make better informed decisions and improve their competitiveness and operations.

Return on Research Investment

• Analysis of current and emerging technologies on insurance operations
• Guidance concerning the changing insurance technology provider landscape
• Concise briefings and guidance on key IT trends and challenges impacting insurers
• Distinct extension of internal market research to validate market strategies
• Guidance for more responsive customer-centric marketing campaigns
• Competitive positioning and recommended partnerships

Standard Subscription Deliverables

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• Analyst inquiry time specific to the advisory service area
• 24 x 7 research access via www.idc-fi.com
• Discounted admission to specific IDC Financial Insights or IDC conferences
• Complimentary forum invitations (Web conferences, industry briefings)

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Related Offerings

Related offerings to our industry-specific research practices include IT Spending Guides — segmented regional and country-level analysis by solution area; Go-to-Market Services (GMS) — a modular set of deliverables to assist clients in extending their market reach, validating their market strategy, and producing more responsive customer-centric marketing campaigns; and IDC Advisory Tools — a growing set of solutions designed to ensure clients that technology purchasing and deployment decisions are optimized. In addition, IDC Financial Insights experts are available for individualized consulting engagements to address specific challenges or to customize the results of our syndicated research offerings.