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Strategy

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Elevating Insurance Strategy: Lessons from a Sommelier's Approach

Executive Summary In insurance, where data analytics and customer expectations continuously shift, the ability to discern subtle strategic...

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Clarifying Vision, Strategy, Objectives, and Roadmaps: Essential Frameworks for Insurance Leaders

If your competitors can easily copy your strategy, it’s not strategy. It’s tactics. Executive Summary Business leaders often conflate vision,...

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Why Managing General Agencies MUST Take Ownership of Communication Strategies

Managing General Agencies (MGAs) play a pivotal role in the insurance industry, which has only ramped up in the last few years and shows no signs of...

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A Framework For Transforming Insurance Culture

Organizational culture transformation ranks among the most formidable challenges leaders face, yet it's essential for sustained competitive...

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Are Insurance Leaders More Technocratic or More Strategist?

While the insurance sector has long prided itself on stability, analytical rigor, and process excellence, these very strengths might be limiting our...

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Transforming Novice Strategists: Essential Shifts in Strategic Thinking

Roger Martin, one of the lead academics in strategy recently wrote an article in Medium about how to train and develop strategists. I think this is a...

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The Decision Framework That Transformed My Leadership Effectiveness

Leadership, at its core, is a series of decisions that shape outcomes for teams, organizations, and individuals. Yet, even seasoned leaders can...

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The Myth of the Underwriting “Secret Sauce”: Why Process Isn’t the Right Differentiator

Underwriting is often treated as sacred ground—the “secret sauce” that must stay entirely in-house. But, what actually differentiates an insurer is...

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Quick Wins, Lasting Impact: Pragmatic AI For Insurance

It’s impossible to read any industry publication without finding an over-saturation of content about AI. Just as the early internet promised to take...

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We Lost...And We Wouldn't Change a Thing

Resulting - (verb) the tendency to judge a decision based on its outcome, rather than the quality of the decision itself. (made popular by Annie...

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