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Value Creation Through Solutions: Capturing a Larger Share of the Value Chain
A critical area that clients sometimes overlook is an understanding of how solutions add value – to themselves and to their customers – and how that value is captured.
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Consumer Confidence Rebounds – Or Does It?
Despite an improvement in consumer confidence, the Bridge Strategy Consumer Financial Pulse survey continues to indicate that the actual financial behaviors of consumers are more consistent with a “recession mindset”. We believe that consumer-oriented finance businesses are wise to pay more attention to these observed behaviors than to stated confidence levels when marketing to current and prospective customers.
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Winning in the Partnership Era
In the partnership era, as much as 60% of the value chain is outsourced to partners. Few companies have effectively managed the myriad of partner relationships inherent to this new industry structure.
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Confronting Insurance Distribution Challenges and Opportunities
Case studies on how two insurance companies facing superficially similar situations, can and should reach very different conclusions regarding what constitutes the right distribution strategy.
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Information Platforms: The Foundation of Strategy Development
Support your strategic planning process by developing intelligent information gathering, analysis, and dissemination capabilities.
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Information Technology Annual Checkup
A guide for managers to gain a better understanding of their IT organization (and information technology in general) in order to enhance the value provided to their company.
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Alternative Insurance Markets
The captive sub-segment of the P&C alternative market space and the opportunities for carriers in it.
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Agency Management Best Practices
As a very unpredictable year draws to a close, and carriers look ahead to an uncertain 2010, the time is ripe for a review of core agency management practices to ensure they position both carriers and agents to capitalize on the new opportunities that will inevitably arise as we emerge from the current recession.
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Insurance Regulatory Reform
We examine the perspectives of various interested parties and venture some early opinions as to how insurance regulatory reform is likely to play out.
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The Great Consumer Reset: Repositioning Your Business to Win in the Post-Recession Era
In the middle of the worst recession in over 60 years, what can companies do to avoid becoming another sad headline and, as importantly, to emerge stronger once the economy begins to recover?
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Credit Default Swaps: Useful Risk Management Tool or Financial WMD?
Perhaps best known for their role in the downfalls of Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, and AIG, credit default swaps have been the subject of intense scrutiny and debate over the past year. So what are credit default swaps? Are they are a useful risk management tool or a financial weapon of mass destruction?
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The Re-Emergence of Private Label
Private label products represent a dilemma for many consumer product companies. They are a competitive threat, but they also represent the brand position of major customers. You can compete aggressively, but will you also compromise your trade relationships?
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Behavioral Economics: A New Frontier for Insurance
In this paper, we discuss how insurance companies can benefit from insights drawn from the field of behavioral economics.
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Five Cost Management Strategies Often Overlooked
With no shortage of techniques available for managing and reducing costs, from activity value analysis to reengineering to automation, an outside observer might think little remains to be done on the cost front inside most insurance companies. Our outside observer would, of course, be wrong.
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Is the World Still Flat?
In his bestselling book "The World Is Flat", Thomas Friedman popularized the notion that the world is moving toward a globally integrated supply chain where workers from industrialized and developing nations will compete with one another on an increasingly level playing field.
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Ernie Csiszar: A Perspective on Key Issues Facing P&C Industry
In a 2009 interview with Ernie Csiszar, insurance industry director with Bridge Strategy Group, he provides his perspective on key issues facing the P&C industry.
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Keeping Your "I" on Growth Planning
Faced with the traumatic economic and geopolitical events, most companies have focused their business planning almost exclusively on driving efficiencies through every component of operations.
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Real Options: Creating and Capturing the Option Value in Regulated Assets
The fundamental insight is recognizing that faced with uncertainty, flexibility has value.
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