I use all the leading insurance technology analysts in the market every month and even with all the communication I exchange with—among others—Matt Josefowicz of Novarica, Craig Weber of Celent, Deb Smallwood of Strategy Meets Action, Ellen Carney of Forrester, Kimberly Harris Ferrante of Gartner, Karen Pauli of Tower Group, and all their coworkers, I couldn't possibly tell you which one is the best.

(I didn't mention Rod Travers of Robert E. Nolan Co. in the above paragraph because somehow Nolan wasn't included in the findings of a recent survey on insurance IT analysts conducted by Innovation in Insurance (i3), a student-run program from the Moore School at the University of South Carolina. That's a pretty big omission, in my view.)

Surveys often have an air of accuracy, but when you ask a subjective question such as which of these analysts provides the best insight, unless you have received some manner of insight from each of the candidates, I'm a little confused as to how you can select one over the other.

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