The tech-powered operating model analysis reveals {that a} broad enterprise expertise technique is essential for enterprise success. A part of that success comes from a frontrunner’s means to scale expertise to drive distinctive buyer experiences and new worth propositions. In help of such an endeavor, insurers, pushed by velocity to market with new and differentiated merchandise, are modernizing their core insurance systems and moving them to the cloud. This permits them to leverage advances in buyer expertise applied sciences like self-servicing and personalization by way of generative AI amongst different applied sciences. They appear to those developments to drive velocity and scale required to stay aggressive and grow profitably. In actual fact, a Gartner survey of insurance coverage CIOs ranked buyer expertise and new product /service improvement within the high 5 targets for his or her digital investments. The insurers we work with expressed comparable views.
Improved velocity to market on new merchandise
When a Tier 1 annuity provider was trying to present new merchandise on an accelerated timeline, they began by modernizing their core policy administration system. Utilizing the platform’s configurable product templates enabled them to construct a product chassis as a foundation from which to shortly create a number of product variations by turning on or off options. This functionality additionally permits them to offer white label merchandise for his or her distribution companions corresponding to utilizing a bespoke index as a substitute of a public index for one in all their annuity merchandise. With this excessive degree of flexibility, the provider is positioned to attain its objective of bringing new and differentiated merchandise to market shortly. On the identical time, they’re providing an excellent higher expertise for his or her distribution companions.
Elevated working effectivity to raised serve clients and staff
Equally, a Tier 2 life insurance coverage provider modernized its new enterprise and underwriting perform with a give attention to course of effectivity to drive product improvement and enhance buyer and worker expertise. They used the Accenture Life Insurance & Annuity Platform (ALIP) to introduce and later replace an listed common life product adopted by putting their high-volume time period product onto the platform as a proving floor for future product launches, together with a brand new listed complete life product. Leveraging this expertise helped them rethink their processes, making them extra environment friendly and liberating up capability for product groups to give attention to the product roadmap and manufacturing merchandise that meet their clients’ wants.
These future-ready carriers look to expertise to offer larger flexibility to answer—and anticipate—buyer and stakeholder wants throughout their enterprises and distribution channels. Let’s talk about how one can elevate the shopper expertise with larger working flexibility.