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Michael Rabin12 March 2019 0

Changing the insurance business model while keeping actuaries at its heart

Insurance companies are working hard to renew their business models. A huge part of that is a modernised approach to actuarial practice, but why and how? I asked my colleague, actuary Diego Rivas. The insurance business looks like a smooth, calm river from the outside. Is that image misleading? DR:

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Insurance

Analytics

Sofia Real11 March 2019 0

Uma geração de clientes | AGEAS SEGUROS

A relação do SAS com a AGEAS Seguros, outrora AXA Portugal, começou há cerca de 20 anos, com o objetivo da então líder mundial em proteção financeira poder aceder a bases de dados e criar uma Data Warehouse. Estava assim dado o primeiro passo para uma relação de confiança e

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Insurance

Analytics

Mayra Pedraza8 March 2019 0

Re-energising citizen engagement

Could smart cities and social media be the perfect match? Politics is a divisive issue and not simply from a philosophical standpoint. Different sections of society have very different engagement levels. We could postulate many reasons for this, but the real question is, how can government re-energise citizen engagement in

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Government

Analytics

Katrina Wakefield7 March 2019 0

Can you learn to be data-driven, or is it in the DNA?

Most of us occasionally stand back and marvel at the meteoric rise of businesses succeeding in the algorithm economy. Not only are they steeped in data decisioning, but it’s also in their DNA. True, they are fortunate to be born of big data and in the advanced analytics era. But

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Government

Analytics

Karen Prillwitz20 February 2019 0

Digitisation: Conflicts and chasms between established and new worlds

“We have a data lake. Nowadays, who needs a data warehouse too? That’s totally antiquated. It’s an obsolete model.” I often hear this kind of sentiment in my consulting work with clients. Dynamic analytics and digitisation teams face what they see as antiquated systems that are in urgent need of

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Analytics

Frédéric Labat19 February 2019 0

Driving business outcomes: the truth is out there

So you want to achieve business outcomes, and very likely data and analytics can help. But how? You know what you want to achieve, but you are not experts in data and analytics. We are experts of data and analytics, but we don’t know what you want to achieve. How

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Analytics

Business Analytics Portugal18 February 2019 0

Bem-vindos ao Hidden Insights

Caros leitores, Bem-vindos ao Hidden Insights! Este será um espaço de partilha onde vamos poder discutir os mais variados temas à volta da importância e impacto que as soluções analíticas têm no Mundo atual e nas nossas vidas. Estamos na era da Inteligência Artificial, da Internet das coisas, do Edge, da Cloud

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Analytics

Sasa Crnojevic18 February 2019 0

Choice in communications service provision: Why analytics is essential to the ‘network revolution’ in telecoms

There is a virtualisation revolution happening in networks, as communication services providers increasingly turn to automation to deliver ongoing cost savings. 5G is also just around the corner and will place increasing demands on networks. As a result, there are a number of changes on the horizon. The first is

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Communications

Analytics

Jos van Dongen11 February 2019 0

Dutch Data Science, Part 8: Zilveren Kruis

This episode covers one of the greatest challenges in Dutch data science: how to distribute €43 billion (no, that’s not a typo) among all Dutch health care insurers in a fair, equal and transparent way. To learn more, I visited the biggest health insurer of the country, Zilveren Kruis, and

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Health Care

Analytics

James Ochiai-Brown11 February 2019 0

How is an analytical model like a wild salmon?

Life phases Wild salmon spend the first phase of their lives in rivers, developing through stages as they make their way downstream to the estuary. Here they embark on the second phase of life, swimming in the open ocean and eventually returning to the river to spawn. Analytical models are

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Blogs

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