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TIAA-CREF's Kozik Passes First Test
News  |  9/29/2003  | 
New York-based TIAA-CREF's new executive vice president and chief technology officer, Susan S. Kozik, was only on the job for eight days when the power-grid in the Northeast went dark.
Global Unity
News  |  9/29/2003  | 
Worldwide players move from a more federated approach to technology to one that leverages assets across global operations.
MetLife Moves to Frictionless Procurement
News  |  9/29/2003  | 
Insurer consolidates enterprise-wide procurement onto a single system to increase efficiency, quality.
ISLF 2003 REPORT: CARRIERS RECOGNIZE XML, STANDARDS AS KEYS TO EASE OF DOING BUSINESS
News  |  9/24/2003  | 
The resounding themes at Insurance & Technology's and ACORD's Insurance Standards Leadership Forum, held yesterday in Chicago, was that XML-based applications make it easier for agents to conduct business and that insurance carriers are increasingly focused on using standards to improve and streamline business processes.
FAIR ISAAC ACQUIRES DIVERSIFIED HEALTHCARE TO BEEF UP MEDICAL BILL REVIEW CAPABILITIES
News  |  9/24/2003  | 
As part of a move to enhance its medical bill review solutions and customer service benefits for workers' compensation payers, Fair Isaac Corp. has acquired Diversified HealthCare Services. Diversified -- a provider of medical bill review products and services for the workers' compensation insurance industry, will be integrated into Fair Isaac's Healthcare and Insurance market unit.
Execution Is What Matters in Insurance Industry Success: IBM's Pieroni
News  |  9/10/2003  | 
In today's global insurance market, there are only a few true "winning strategies." Rather, what characterizes successful companies is an ability to execute, based on significant investment in core, "baseline" activities such as claims management, said William Pieroni, general manager, IBM Global Insurance Industry, at last week's IBM Global Insurance Executive Conference, "Value Creation for Competitive Advantage," in San Francisco.
Insurity Speeds Argonaut to Market
News  |  9/10/2003  | 
Facing the need to ramp up quickly into new lines of business, Argonaut Insurance Co. chose to implement Insurity's Web-based property/casualty policy processing services to support the carrier's nationwide rating and policy issuance for general liability and commercial auto.
Analysis from Gomez: Retrofitting the Navigation Bar
News  |  9/10/2003  | 
The luxury of total site redesigns is a vestige of the past. Gmez is seeing far more phased upgrades to specific site areas and elements of user interaction. The most common upgrade is navigation schema redesign -- often unassociated with interaction design or information architecture redesign. However, it's a challenging task for a design team to accomplish.


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