MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2014

French vegetable farmers protesting against falling living standards have set fire to tax and insurance offices in town of Morlaix, in Brittany. The farmers say they cannot cope with falling prices for their products. Here is another case in point: French Farmers Torch Tax Office in Brittany Protest.

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Consultant Ninja

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Ignoring the signup/website experience, I''m curious about the customer satisfaction and actual value from the core product. I''d just ask 4 questions: 1) Did you have health insurance prior to getting insurance via healthcare.gov? Yes/No] 2) If so, how are your health insurance premiums compared to your prior plans?

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Markovitz Consulting

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

In the space of two weeks, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal both ran articles on the productivity benefits of reduced work hours. Not to be outdone, NPR reported that Microsoft Japan moved to a four-day workweek this summer while increasing productivity by 40%. There’s certainly some truth to that argument.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 9, 2017

The concept of medical cannabis covered under health insurance has just become law in Germany. From a digitalization perspective, prescription management and insurance approvals is ripe for reform. The Bundestag voted unanimously for it to be covered by public health insurance in January and the law went into effect in March.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 5, 2017

There is little doubt that the widespread adoption of autonomous vehicles will have a huge impact on the automobile insurance industry. Since insuring privately owned vehicles is what the auto insurance industry has been all about, insurers have every reason to be concerned about their future growth and profitability.

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Consultant Ninja

JULY 22, 2009

I don't mean to pick on CN, whom I like, but people tend to discuss healthcare as though it were a zero-sum situation like the value chain for widget production. Why is the health insurance any different than traditional forms of insurance i.e. automobile, life, homeowners, etc.? OK, but this is not the whole truth.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

Invest for the future, reduce your debts, and insure your income. If you are unexpectedly laid off or demand for your company’s products suddenly plummets (think Blackberry ), then you will want to have a healthy financial buffer to buy you time to recover. Insure Your Income. Invest for the Future.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

Social Customer Service platforms can be customised, which means you can create ‘groups’ focusing on specific products or themes. If you’re worried about risk, then you can always explore the types of business insurance which are available (there are a tonne of business insurance products out there).

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Consultant Ninja

JULY 27, 2009

They also happen to be expensive, not because some greedy fat cat is out there, but because that high price justifies the ROI for the R&D in that product in the first place. overlapping administration costs of insurance companies; advertising costs of new drugs) and decrease the quality of delivery (e.g. July 28, 2009 at 9:17 AM.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 7, 2025

A case study an effort at a healthcare insurer provides five lessons not just applicable in projects aimed at reducing paper but also for other AI initiatives as well: 1) The goal should not be automation; it should be to get the work done in a cost-effective manner. The latest technology that is being applied is AI.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 9, 2023

These systems can suggest relevant products that customers are likely to enjoy. For example, Alibaba, a leading Chinese e-commerce company, could conduct sentiment analysis of customer reviews of individual products and services, and use these insights to modify existing products and develop new ones.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 15, 2017

One company that’s making headway on that goal is CSAA Insurance Group (CSAA IG), one of the insurance companies affiliated with the 55 million-member American Automobile Association (AAA). With almost 4,000 employees, CSAA IG has embarked on a systemic approach to create a pervasive culture of innovation.

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Successful Independent Consulting

MAY 15, 2017

If you can, pay your health insurance with this same card since it too will be tax deductible. Use this credit card for as many expenses as you can, including recurring expenses like your cell phone and internet service and health insurance. Determine if you need business insurance or need to increase your personal coverage.

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Consulting Insurance Insurance Cash Flow 150

The Fearless Marketer

APRIL 15, 2019

Here’s the opening of an email to executives in the Insurance Industry interested in increasing sales: We’ve all seen this opera a thousand times: Yes, insurance salespeople have been the victim of vicious stereotypes. This opening relies on the stereotype of the obnoxious insurance salesperson. Then call on Dilbert, of course.

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BCG

MAY 4, 2016

When Chinese life and auto insurers set their agendas, they should think about how to make their brands more trustworthy, their products and services simpler, and their claims processing faster and more transparent. Their answers provide a map of where insurers can look to gain an advantage. Article Friday, May 06, 2016.

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Successful Independent Consulting

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Some agencies provide access to group health insurance plans, a plus in the U.S. It may be worth doing one project just to get access to better health insurance rates, but I’m not sure how good the rates are or if they offset the first disadvantage listed below. Faster, easier, cheaper business administration.

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BCG

AUGUST 18, 2016

One Monday morning, as he rides the bus to work from his new apartment in the city’s Wilmersdorf section, where the family moved over the weekend, Rolf downloads his insurance company’s mobile app and updates his account information. And the company has e-mailed him a link to information on its retirement products.

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Insurance Insurance Data Productivity 40

Seth Godin Blog

JULY 27, 2023

I haven’t seen any data that says that working in accounting for a candy company is more fun or more satisfying than working in accounting for an insurance company. Often, we use the product we make as a reason to tolerate the process we don’t enjoy. And mostly we get the day to day.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 28, 2017

It might seem, then, that private insurance can be of little help in addressing climate change. There’s concern that for-profit insurers won’t want to insure risky properties, and that individuals won’t have the wherewithal to buy insurance plans in the first place. Dating back to at least F.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 18, 2020

Interviewer: Firm A is in the life insurance industry and looking to create different pricing for individuals within the market based on their profiles and would like your help to do so. Secondly, cost based pricing, which involves adding a mark-up on top of the production cost. Jane: There are three ways to develop a pricing strategy.

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Case Interview Insurance Insurance Interviews 88

BCG

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Article Thursday, December 15, 2016 Life insurers are feeling the squeeze. In their efforts to adapt to this upside-down world, life insurers are focusing on optimizing their investment strategies and operations. The industry’s overall business growth has stalled, and investment income has become a critical mainstay.

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Insurance Insurance Cash Flow Management 40

Tom Spencer

JUNE 30, 2023

The financial services industry comprises firms that operate across a range of sectors: Asset & Wealth Management, Banking & Capital Markets, and Insurance. In simple terms, asset management firms are the ‘manufacturers’ of investment products (e.g., clients can purchase iShares on the RBC Wealth platform).

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 16, 2018

Historically, financial services products were designed for a world of greater certainty and less choice. In this context, they provided accessible deposits, savings, loans, and insurance – with relatively limited need to give advice. These traditional products have value. Figure 1: Financial Needs Hexagon (Oliver Wyman).

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Oliver Wyman Banking Insurance Insurance 79

Consulting Matters

APRIL 9, 2019

So it was a very significant role and we did very unique things and new to the world type products. So three different legs of a business type of knowledge from product development to high level sales to post sale services, and at a high level managing all of those things. Most people don't have two of those and I had three of them.

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Successful Independent Consulting

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

I’m simply trying to help self-employed consultants understand how the changes in tax law may affect them, so they — you — can have a more productive conversation with your tax professional.) You would do this instead of itemizing all your business deductions like rent, liability insurance, advertising expenses, etc. Key Findings A.

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 9, 2019

So it was a very significant role and we did very unique things and new to the world type products. So three different legs of a business type of knowledge from product development to high level sales to post sale services, and at a high level managing all of those things. Most people don't have two of those and I had three of them.

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Interviews How To Engineering Productivity 189

Tom Spencer

APRIL 14, 2023

This may include setting up insurance policies, creating a retirement plan, and other risk management strategies. For example, a wealth manager may recommend that a client purchase a specific type of insurance to protect their assets from unexpected events such as death, disability, or critical illness.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

After being admitted to the Bar of the District of Columbia, he became involved in the actuarial discipline of the life insurance business, which used statistics to determine life expectancy and calculate annuity premiums–pivotal considerations in life insurance and pensions field, where Buck moved and made his reputation.

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On the Brink Podcast

APRIL 10, 2023

Her organization, the National Association for Business Resources , was focused wholly on businesses in Michigan, offering important services from insurance products to support with accounts receivables.

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BCG

APRIL 11, 2017

The prevalence of transaction accounts, the availability of credit, and the willingness to save and buy insurance products are all positive markers of economic and social improvement. On the flip side, too much credit, high fees, and ill-suited insurance products are all counterproductive.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 18, 2018

tax law has made this task even harder with its elimination of the individual mandate for health insurance, a part of the Affordable Care Act that requires individuals to buy insurance or risk having to pay a tax penalty. Critics argue that the new U.S. But the effect of the mandate on coverage was never particularly impressive.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 28, 2013

government’s Medicare insurance program for the elderly, Mitchell found that urologists who didn’t own the equipment prescribed IMRT for 15.6 Yet given his productivity, some hospital auditors wondered: Was all of the surgery really necessary? Except for those below certain wage thresholds, insurance costs are likely to increase.

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Epicflow

AUGUST 30, 2024

Its main purpose is to produce better products more efficiently and at lower costs. With this purpose, MOM involves the analysis of each stage in the production process to make sure that they are maximum efficient, and their costs are minimized. Key Elements of Manufacturing Operations Management Production management.

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Rick Conlow

OCTOBER 2, 2021

You undoubtedly can add some of your own: A CEO who cut employee benefits because the company’s insurance costs rose when two employees had babies born with complications that cost a million dollars each for care. What’s the underlying cause for most of these failures? Here are a few examples of that give clues.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

JANUARY 12, 2024

Keith Farley shares the best strategies and most relatable approaches to selling an intangible and invisible product.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 23, 2022

Because most (US) health insurance is location-based, how does the organization decide on which health insurance to buy and how much does the company contribute? And she wants the teams to create products the customers want to buy. Over her career, Jenny has learned that it's easier to sell more product than to manage costs.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 4, 2020

Professor Bernd Schmitt of Columbia Business School is credited with creating the concept of Customer Experience Management (CEM), which he defined as : the process of strategically managing a customer’s entire experience with a product or company. Figure 1 Health Insurance Purchase Customer Journey Map (Source: heartofthecustomer.com ).

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