All the headlines from our Productivity Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 15 2015 // Jardine Lloyd Thompson (JLT) Australia, a subsidiary of the London-based insurance, reinsurance and employee benefits firm, has deployed NetSuite OpenAir cloud professional services automation (PSA) solution to run the...
Jul 6 2015 // This is the age of big data. The concept is to collect all kinds of data and then use various statistical techniques, usually some sophisticated form of regression analysis, to identify correlations between the data,...
Mar 26 2015 // Agency employees are not happy when it comes to compensation, and money isn’t the problem.Despite increases in salaries and total compensation, many employees continue to be unsatisfied when it comes to overall...
Mar 9 2015 // Revenue per employee has historically been the measuring stick for staffing and employee efficiency within independent insurance agencies. The industry average revenue per employee continues to show improvement. But,...
Feb 23 2015 // Agency employees are not happy when it comes to compensation, and money isn’t the problem.Despite some reported increases in salaries and total compensation, many employees continue to be unsatisfied when it comes to...
Oct 2 2014 // San Francisco, CA, October 2, 2014– Paper-based document management systems are inefficient — insurance agencies are stuck with incomplete forms, increased NIGO errors and lost revenue from extended cycle times...
Sep 5 2014 // Ohio workers are more productive and better educated these days, yet they aren’t necessarily making more money as a result, according to a new report.Ohio productivity grew by nearly 67 percent between 1979 and 2013,...
May 29 2014 // American International Group Inc., the largest commercial insurer in the U.S. and Canada, is shifting workers to locations including the Philippines and Texas to reduce costs.“We’re talking several thousand...
Mar 20 2014 // Energi, a Massachusetts-based industrial reinsurance company, which provides risk management and insurance programs for the energy industry, announced that it will provide an Energy Savings Warranty (ESW) for the Toronto...
Feb 28 2014 // A quarter-century after the U.S. Supreme Court opened the era of class action shareholder litigation, the justices may be poised to shut it down.The court will hear arguments March 5 on a Halliburton Co. appeal targeting...
Jan 13 2014 // California isn’t just a warm place to live, which is often the case even in winter, but it turns out the state is considered a “judicial hellhole.”The American Tort Reform Foundation issued its annual...
Dec 11 2013 // Agency producers are not spending enough of their time on the sales-related activities that they and their managers think they ideally should.Instead they are spending more time than they think they should on...
Oct 28 2013 // A recent report from McKinsey & Co. had some bad news for local property/casualty insurance agents— many of them will be out of business within the next five to 10 years.McKinsey contends that “the economics of...
Oct 17 2013 // CapX Partners has launched a new online platform called Energy Conservation and Performance (E-CAP), to help building owners, ESCOs, contractors and engineers secure financing for their energy savings projects.Partnering...
Jun 17 2013 // Maintaining a top-notch sales organization is harder than ever. One key reason is the growing challenge of keeping up with state and federal insurance regulations that focus on sales. The multiple tasks involved –...
Jun 5 2013 // The New York State Assembly approved on Tuesday a comprehensive post-Sandy insurance reform package comprised of 14 pieces of legislation. All approved measures now move to the state Senate for further consideration.The...
Mar 20 2013 // From top level managers to office and support staff — every person in an agency has a role to play in helping the agency win in the sales game.When one person fails, the whole agency suffers. And when an agency suffers,...
Mar 11 2013 // To boost their profitability, agencies make investments all the time in people and technology, as well as in other businesses through acquisitions. But Dan Epstein, CEO of ReSourcePro, says there is another often...
Feb 26 2013 // To boost their profitability, agencies make investments all the time in people and technology, as well as in other businesses through acquisitions. But Dan Epstein, CEO of ReSourcePro, says there is another often...
Feb 25 2013 // Managing sales in an independent agency is a team sport. From top level managers to office and support staff – every person in an agency has a role to play in helping the agency win the sales game.When one person fails...