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Tech-Enabled Transformation in the #insurance Industry
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Software is a crucial long-term investment for any company, but with rapidly changing insurance software, you, as a provider, might just not know how to keep up and keep your business in the loop.In this article, we’ve compiled the trends that are most likely to affect your enterprise — which ones will be beneficial, what to look out for, and what strategies will be most useful in a few years’ time.Changing Approach to InsuranceInsurance agency software allows agencies to effectively analyze and evaluate risks for businesses and individuals, often using data Clouds and Big Data analysis. It has become a popular tendency to use this feature to support risk management on a more individual level to improve health habits and behavior. This way, providers help customers to move from reacting to (...)

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Are You Calling The Apple Card ‘Disruptive’?
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Tech Giants Aren’t Disruptive. But They Could Win The “Game” Over Banks.There I was, together with millions of people around the world, “virtually” standing in front of Jennifer Bailey as she introduced the new Apple Card. It took hours, if not minutes, for media outlets to start rolling out headlines describing this credit card as “disruptive”. But as a former General Manager at Visa and the current CEO of a leading digital payment solution, I wondered: “Is Apple Card really a disrupter of the payments industry?”To answer this question, we must first be on the same page, at least, linguistically. Journalists and bloggers are now using the word “disruptive” to describe any situation in which an industry is shaken up by new or existing players. But “shaken up” does not imply change. Interestingly, (...)

#banking #blockchain #digital-transformation #apple-disruption #fintech

Lifescale: The Antidote to Our Tech Addicted, Digitally Distracted Lifestyle
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If you’re already a Brian Solis reader, get ready for a surprising turn. And if you’ve never read a Solis book before, his eighth and latest is the one to start with. Lifescale: How to Live a More Creative, Productive, and Happy Life launched at SXSW in Austin last month, and it promises to help us wake up from our tech-addicted comas and rediscover creative, empowered lives.Solis is principal analyst at Altimeter, the digital research group of Prophet. He’s spent his last seven books analyzing the impact of disruptive technology on business, markets and society.Now, he’s turned his research powers in a different direction. Lifescale asks what happened to our attention spans and creative capacities, when we, as humans, were disrupted by “disruptive technology.” More so, he ventures on a (...)

#digital-transformation #brian-solis #work-life-balance #digital-health #productivity

Joget DX Open Source Digital Transformation Platform Now Available for Preview
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The Joget team is proud to announce that the first preview release for Joget DX is now available for download!What is Joget DX?Joget DX is a next generation open source application platform for faster, simpler digital transformation (DX). Joget DX combines the best of business process automation, workflow management and low code application development in a simple, flexible and open platform. With Joget DX business and technical teams can collaborate to rapidly build full-fledged enterprise applications visually, anywhere, anytime.Joget started as the open source Joget Workflow project on SourceForge in 2009. Initially a workflow engine for business process automation, Joget evolved into a full-fledged application development platform in its third major release Joget Workflow v3 in (...)

#artificial-intelligence #open-source #app-development #ux #digital-transformation

Digital Transformation & #innovation Episode 2 : Demystifying market #disruption
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When you think about the phrase “disrupting the market” the first thing that comes to your mind is that the market disruptors are the chosen few that just had the luck to find the right niche in right time. That these are the chosen people, the chosen heroes in our lives that will help make our life better. While there is a fair amount of truth in there, those heroes are not the ones with shining armor. Those heroes wear rather dark armors and stack heavy weapons. They are the heroes to some while being a pain to many and for that reason, in episode 2 of Digital Transformation and Innovation series, we will be exploring why our view on market disruption is a little… clouded.Clouded?Cloud is a solid ground from which I should start my point because cloud technologies carry a lot of (...)

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Accelerate Enterprise Digital Transformation Through Leading Connectivity and Intelligence…
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Accelerate Enterprise Digital Transformation Through Leading Connectivity and Intelligence TechnologiesAnastasia DulgierWhen steering a large-scale enterprise through the digital transformation process, an organization faces a unique set of challenges and potential risks. It’s helpful to explore the question of why digital transformation is especially challenging for large companies, what are the core requirements and challenges of industry pioneers? What makes digital transformation a possibility?Mobile World Congress 2019 — Setting the Stage for the Enterprise TransformationAt the event, Huawei Enterprise demonstrated its flagship products for the enterprise market in three exhibition areas: Digital Platform, Ubiquitous Connectivity, and Pervasive Intelligence. Huawei Enterprise also (...)

#internet-of-things #mobile #mobile-world-congress #mwc19 #digital-transformation

Digital Transformation & #innovation Episode 1: #tech + craft #beer = a match made in heaven
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This is a dream table. Right?There is a certain stereotype that people working in the tech industry are very likely to drink some exotic craft beer when chilling with their friends after work and to be honest I can pretty much relate to that. So for that reason, I think that this is a perfect topic to start off my “Digital Transformation and Innovation” series where I will be covering interesting stories, methodologies, and concepts that will help you master the mindset required to prevail in the ever disrupting market.First of, let’s see what craft beer industry is all about.Beer? Everyone loves beer. When you talk about beer most people think about big brands: Heineken, Amstel, Paulaner, Budweiser etc.And when you think about all those beer brands first thing that comes to your mind is (...)

#digital-transformation #competitive-advantage

Industry 4.0 Definition And The Benefits of Digitalisation For Manufacturing
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Industry 4.0 Definition And The Benefits of Digitalization For ManufacturingThe digital age has impacted every industry, and for the manufacturing sector, in particular, this digital revolution has been labelled ‘Industry 4.0’. Starting with the industry 4.0 definition, we analyse the benefits that digitisation introduces to enterprises in logistics, supply chain, automotive, and beyond.When looking for an industry 4.0 definition, the title represents the fourth evolution that is currently taking place, and the effects it is having within the manufacturing industry. If individuals first learn to embrace the changes, enterprise businesses can utilise these shifts in processes and see the benefits that digitalisation has on an existing company’s infrastructure.To gain a stronger (...)

#industry-4-0 #digital-transformation #3d-printing #robotics-automation #robotics

Our #digital Future is Not Just Hype … “Digitize” or Get Left Behind !
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Our Digital Future is Not Just Hype … “Digitize” or Get Left Behind!Why is interest in new #technology not matched with action?Photo by Joshua Sortino on UnsplashI had some interesting discussions with policymakers and academics last week. My events focused on the “digitization of organizations” and “financial technology.” As always, there was a lot of interest in the new world. Everybody wants to talk about artificial intelligence, robotics, blockchain, and initial coin offerings (ICOs).But such interest is rarely matched with real action.References were made to the “volatility of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies,” “the disappointing performance of artificial intelligence,” and the “slow adoption of blockchain technology.”The standard response was that we shouldn’t drive ourselves crazy worrying (...)

#digital-transformation #business #life

Move over #devops — Hello JEFF/NoOps
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Move over DevOps — Hello JEFF/NoOpsDevOps is the seamless union of developers and operations working as one to facilitate high speed-to-market. It can be considered the approach of applying Lean or Agile to principles to infrastructure and operations. It breaks down silos within organisations and enables teams to move at a much greater pace to deliver software at scale.“[DevOps is] a cross-disciplinary community of practice dedicated to the study of building, evolving and operating rapidly-changing resilient systems at scale.” — Jez HumbleIn many organisations, DevOps is still massively misunderstood with dedicated departments clinging onto those silos under the gise of DevOps. For those that have been successful in removing those silos, get ready because the game is already changing.Whereas (...)

#cloud-computing #serverless #software-engineering #digital-transformation

What is Digital Architecture anyway?
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What is Digital Architecture Anyway?Best way to secure funding for your project is to put the word Digital somewhere into the name of it.Those were the words I heard from a IT executive pretty much summarising the way IT industry reacts to Digital today. We work in digital transformation projects which would be just called transformation projects a few years ago.Unsurprisingly companies are seeking for Digital Architects to support these projects, whereas they would be just looking for Technology Architects before digital became the fund-securing-word. Funnily enough, if you look at to required job skills, you can hardly spot any significant difference apart from some key words. So what makes an architect a Digital Architect and in fact, is there such thing as Digital Architecture?Short (...)

#digital-architecture #business #software-architecture #digital-transformation #enterprise-technology

How Internet of Things is changing things at the #workplace
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Internet of Things (IoT) is here to make a noticeable difference in lives of us all. It’s a transformational technology that can bring in huge changes in a business and to employees working for it. Managers have just begun to spot the new possibilities created by #iot based systems and solutions; from a lighting fixture to an air conditioner. Above all, IoT connected devices generate huge data that provide a base to a business’ cost-saving strategies and automation plans.Here are 5 ways the technology of IoT will help businesses in executing their operations more productivity and cost-effectively.Comfortable work environmentWorkers and employees often have issue with setting the right AC temperature in shared offices. There we see lots of disagreements among coworkers. But the issue can (...)

#internet-of-things #digital-transformation

3 Signs that the Digital Future is Already Here
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Act now! Don’t wait for the “perfect” #technology.Photo by Markus Spiske on UnsplashLast week was all about “excuses.”I had to speak at a “Future of …” event and got involved in a very engaged discussion. The issue was how serious we need to be about the Digital Transformation. Are we currently experiencing the 4th Industrial Revolution? Are artificial intelligence and blockchain technology real game-changers?My message was — as it always is — that new technologies are changing the world and that preparing for this change now is vital. In response, members of the audience — most of whom were professionals and not “technologists” — raised the following objections:“I don’t have time to get up to speed with new technology and what it means for my work.”“It’s not my responsibility to familiarize myself with new (...)

#business #digital-transformation #entrepreneurship #life

6 Ways #ar Plays a Role in Your Company’s #digital Transformation
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The Augmented Reality revolution has reached a new point, with enterprise adoption overshadowing the consumer world. Market leaders have started directing their focus from niche offerings to strategies that are anchored in prototypes designed for industrialization.Augmented reality has prevailed multi-domains such as gaming, media, marketing or even traveling. In short, this technology offers ample opportunities for new or existing business in the current era.Some facts:According to Statista, Augmented Reality is expected to be acquiring close to 1 billion users by the end of the year 2020. The global shipment of smart AR glasses is expected to reach 5.4 million units by 2020. The global AR market is also expected to grow to 90 billion USD by 2020.In the next few decades, advances in (...)

#augmented-reality #digital-transformation #ar-digital

How To Lead Digital Transformations
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Digital transformation can be defined as a process whereby an organization shifts their #business models, processes, and organizational culture with digital technologies to adapt to changing customer behaviors.A digital transformation strategy aims to create the agile capabilities of fully leveraging the possibilities and opportunities of new technologies and their impact faster, better and in more innovative way in the future.However, a recent leadership study on digital transformation by Dell unveils most organizations are unprepared:45% fear becoming obsolete in 3–5 years48% are unaware of what their industry will look like in 3 yearsonly 5% are classified as Digital LeadersTransformational journeys require acurate assessments, learning, #growth, and monitoring of:People and (...)

#innovation #digital-transformation #management