It's 6 a.m. Gasoline is more than $3 a gallon. You are 25 miles from your office, which means a 45-minute commute on a great day, an hour on a regular day, and two hours on a bad day. Once at the offi
Incredibly, it has been almost a year since I started writing this column. It has been a year in which I have worked with numerous carriers, visited with many vendors, attended trade shows, and talked
In the film The Godfather Part III, the character of Michael Corleone laments, "Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in." Some CIOs might be saying the same thing about their legacy system
The "Shop Talk" column is concerned with all things technology-vendor related: how to organize and execute a vendor search, how to negotiate a good deal, and how to implement third-party software. In
A second-week claims adjuster trainee easily can testify to the fact the speed at which a claim is closed is in direct proportion to the end cost of that claim. Speed of task to reduce cycle time has
Accenture has introduced the Accenture Life Insurance Platform, an enhanced version of the former NaviSys policy administration and new-business processing platform featuring new product
As ACORD membership keeps growing in both number and geographic diversity, and as the lines between the IT and business departments continue to blur, ACORD standards and services are evolving to keep
Not so long ago, standardized paper forms were a new idea--one form replacing warehouses of carrier-specific versions. The underlying concept, and ACORD's mission, was to improve business by improving
(Editor's note: This month, we introduce a new Agency Technology columnist. Ted Baker, president of Advanced Automation, an agency consulting firm, takes over for Ed Higgins, an independent agent who wrote the column for four years. We thank Ed