Future-ready insurance systems
April 15, 2020
April 15, 2020
It’s a common situation. You’ve invested heavily in a variety of digital technologies, but the outcomes have been disappointing. Your board is demanding answers: your competitors made similar investments yet are growing at twice the pace that you are—where are you going wrong?
Our Future Systems Survey has analyzed what it is that sets insurance digital leaders apart from the pack. Drawing on this analysis, the report spells out how insurers can avoid the ‘innovation achievement gap’—the difference between their actual and potential returns on investment in new technology.
Our study provides insights that distinguish three groups of organizations. The Leaders achieved scores in the top 10 percent of our sample in relation to technology adoption across the organization and overall readiness for this adoption. The Laggards made up the bottom 25 percent and the Middlers came in between the two outlying groups.
The growing difference between leaders' and Laggards' growth rates
Based on notional $10bn in revenues for given insurance Leader and Laggard counterpart in 2015, a 37 percent revenue gap is expected in 2023.
In 2018, insurance laggards had 10% in forgone annual revenue. If they don’t change, they could miss out on as much as 37% of their annual revenue by 2023.
The Future Systems Survey found that while investment in key technology is necessary, it isn’t enough to ensure market leadership. Fragmented investments result in too many disparate systems operating in technology silos. These silos often preclude collaboration between various parts of the business and fragmented decision making seldom reflects strategic business goals.
Insurance Leaders and Middlers have been more successful in eliminating cultural barriers.
Q. To what extent do you agree with the following statement?
Insurers that have the right mindset recognize the importance of cultural integration.
Insurance Leaders and those of the Middlers closest to the Leaders are building future-ready systems that are Boundaryless, Adaptable and Radically human.
Systems that blur boundaries between:
Systems that provide scalability and strategic agility:
Future Systems can:
To implement future-ready insurance systems and derive optimal benefits, insurers need to develop both a tactical and a strategic vision and plan. This must include appropriate investment across many new technologies. Our research shows that leaders take three practical steps to maximize the business impact of their vision and plan:
The findings of our Future Systems Survey confirm that the cause of sluggish growth is not under-investment in crucial technology, but rather shortcomings in the way these investments are planned and managed, how they are used to transform the workforce, and the corporate mindset that influences all decisions and behavior.
As part of this study, Accenture has developed a diagnostic tool that analyzes your technology RoI and identifies the remedial actions that would have the greatest and most immediate effect. We would welcome the opportunity to share this with you, to help you develop a fact-based roadmap to impact maximization. Please contact one of our authors to get the conversation started.
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