The insurance industry worldwide is undergoing a significant change accelerated by the financial meltdown and changing demographics of its customer base. In this blog, we will discuss the challenges, approaches and possible solutions to dealing with the transformation that the industry has unwittingly entered into.

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Realigning spend priorities for Insurance processes

In the Insurance Industry, product design, claims, distribution, customer acquisition and policy administration figures on the top of the list of Insurance specific core processes. However in the Insurance processes value chain, each process has different cost-structure. Moreover, the impact that process has on the creating differentiated competitive advantage for the organization varies for each process.

Cost of Insurance process vs Power of differentiation

 

Comparing the “power to differentiate” in these processes to the “cost of the processes”, it appears that we may have to re-align spend priorities.

What is your take? Do you think the spending is in line with the industry imperatives?

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Sanjay,
Can you elaborate on the source of the data if it is not confidential? This does bring a new perspective to the picture. If I would not have seen this, I would definitely have ranked it differently - product design and claims experience being on the higher side of differentiation.

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