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  Shifting Market Needs Seen as Biggest Potential Business Disruptor, but Challenge Brings Opportunity

  By Phil Gusman, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  February 4, 2013

  Property and casualty information and technology leaders cite shifting market needs as the biggest potential disruptor over the next five years, a recent survey states, but insurers can get ahead of the issue by making investments in data and analytics.

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  Top Tech Tales for Twenty-Twelve

  By Robert Regis Hyle, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  December 17, 2012

  Remember the days when business leaders thought a technology solution might help solve some of their problems? Technology no longer assists carriers, it is central to the daily functions of virtually every business in this county and insurers—carriers and agencies—are no exception.

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  How Many Elections Away Are We from Casting Presidential Ballots on the Internet?

  By Robert Regis Hyle, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  October 22, 2012

  The presidential election is the most important event of the year, but I think we’re all getting tired of the campaigning, especially if, like me, you live in the Greater Cincinnati media market (I’m actually a Hoosier with an office in Northern Kentucky). Ohio is apparently no longer the Buckeye...

• Insurance IT All-Stars Leading the Way

  By Robert Regis Hyle, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  September 4, 2012

  As always, our class of IT All-Stars is an experienced—but varied—group of IT executives that have dealt with the serious problems that have faced the industry and is making plans to deal with the issues that are about to come our way.

• Seven Questions About Remote Access

  By Frank Sentner  |  September 4, 2012

  Off-the-shelf software and hardware now make remote work widely feasible.

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  2012 Insurance IT All-Stars: Rick Roy, CUNA Mutual

  By Robert Regis Hyle, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  August 23, 2012

  After two decades working on the vendor side, the opportunity to run an IT shop for himself was a big part of the attraction Rick Roy found in joining CUNA Mutual Group nine years ago. Roy, the carrier’s senior vice president and CIO, is running IT again after a three-year...

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  7 Questions About Remote Access for Independent Agencies

  By Frank Sentner  |  July 25, 2012

  From desktop visuals to security concerns, get answers to key questions agents ask about remote access.

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  Technology Top 10 Slideshow: Stories to Reflect on from the First Half of 2012

  By Robert Regis Hyle, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  July 18, 2012

  PropertyCasualty360.com and Tech Decisions magazine have been covering important issues this year that range from the challenges IT leaders face to revolutionize their companies to a scenario where personal auto insurance may no longer be the driver of the personal lines engine.

• CIO/CTO Roundtable Looks Ahead at the Future of IT

  By Robert Regis Hyle, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  June 5, 2012

  You have to give people a reason to come,” says Ernie Pearson, director of the CIO/CTO Roundtable. He believes the key topic for this year’s roundtable—a look to the future—will satisfy the insurance IT leaders in attendance.

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  Looking into the Future: Insurance Technology Leaders Need Vision

  By Robert Regis Hyle, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  May 22, 2012

  Like many people, I’m too focused on the here and now to see beyond the pile of work blocking me from a fast exit from the office, but there comes a time when people need to look ahead and prepare for all the possibilities—even ones that stretch the limit of...

• CIOs Spurring Transformation in the Industry

  By Robert Regis Hyle, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  May 1, 2012

  In its 2012 Global Insurance Outlook, Deloitte Research insurance leader Sam Friedman issues a fascinating description of technology leaders in the insurance industry.

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  CIOs as Revolutionaries? Technology Spurring Change Among Carriers

  By Robert Regis Hyle, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  February 9, 2012

  In its 2012 Global Insurance Outlook, Deloitte Research insurance leader Sam Friedman issues an interesting description of technology leaders in the insurance industry. He describes their work as “revolutionary,” and points out the important decisions CIOs make today are less about software or reengineering processes than they are about transformation.

• Life Support

  By Robert Regis Hyle, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  February 1, 2012

  Mainframe systems are less important for some, but are still hanging around.

• Insurers Scaling New Heights

  By Robert Regis Hyle, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  December 13, 2011

  The challenge of being a CIO in 2012 is to avoid the hype of new technology while achieving breakthroughs with older technology such as legacy systems.

• Better Mousetraps

  By By Paul Rolich  |  October 7, 2011

  Steve Jobs and his vision for Apple have changed the way we live in the 21st century.

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  Steve Jobs: Building Better Mousetraps

  By Paul Rolich  |  October 6, 2011

  (Editor’s Note: This article was written two weeks before the death of Steve Jobs on Oct. 5, 2011 as a tribute to what Jobs has meant for the business world and for people in general.)