NewSpace: An Insurance Industry Perspective

The concepts of ‘what and where’ are intimately tied together as one interdependent whole throughout the decision-making processes to get and keep insurance customers. Although the insurance industry is not homogenous, the two intertwined concepts of assets at risk and location-based risks of the assets are at play throughout each major line of insurance. (Re)insurers… Continue reading NewSpace: An Insurance Industry Perspective

Pace of Technology Change

Do insurers need to keep up with the pace of technology change? How should insurers prepare to maintain (or exceed) the pace of technology? I think we should consider some questions before providing any answers. The illustration below captures four selected areas that the pace of technology changes impacts. But before diving in, I have… Continue reading Pace of Technology Change

Why the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party?

The Mad Hatter's Tea Party in Wonderland represents chaos. Possibly chaos of a barely controlled nature, but chaos nevertheless. During the last twenty plus years as a technology-focused insurance industry analyst, I have often felt like Alice striving to understand the illogical posturing and shifting positions of many of the emerging technology firms at the… Continue reading Why the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party?