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What do you consider the golden rule in terms of a successful system implementation?

There isn't a more troubling issue that faces an insurance carrier and its IT department than navigating through the dangerous waters of implementing new software solutions. While we asked for only one Golden Rule, this insurance industry consultant/analyst adds three imperatives for carriers to wrap into their plans. Let us know whether he's on the money.

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Industry News

• Insurance Groups Challenge California Action on Iranian Investments
• Climate Survey Made Voluntary, Secret in NAIC Turnabout
• Senate Adjourns Without Extending Flood Insurance
• RIMS Lauds Marsh's Stand on Contingent Commissions

Ease of doing business opens the door to agent and customer retention, growth and profitability. Still, the agent experience fails to make the list of many carriers' priorities. Listen to successful carriers discuss strategies that helped companies like Accident Fund take top honors in ASCnet's Ease of Doing Business awards category. Click here

Tech PR Ticker

• Sircon, Agency Services Group Partner on Producer Services to Insurers
• Survey Reveals Insurer Concerns With Talent Crisis
• Allfinanz Releases Life Insurance Underwriting Solution
• MSB, Vertafore Partner on Homeowners Transactions

Solution Partners

Predictive Analytics Delivers Benefits for Insurers of All Sizes

For decades, the insurance industry has collected data and filed it in cabinets, and never in a very sophisticated way. While this is not a new realization, the past four or five years have seen increased efforts by insurance companies of all shapes and sizes to get control of critical data and put it to good use.

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