11/3/2020 3:26:20 PM Sedgwick advocates joint machine and human approach as false document fraud surges By Mike Daly The loss adjuster has seen an uptick in false document fraud during lockdown. Yet insurers are generally as 80% or more of the data...
6/9/2020 7:54:12 AM Data firms pitch profiling tools at UK councils By Mike Daly Databases used for targeting consumers being used to spot those struggling in pandemic Technology is always a means to and end. The goal...
6/5/2020 3:54:00 PM You're Everywhere and Nowhere, Baby: 4 Kinks in the Data for Insurers By Mike Daly Insurance is a business built on data, so why haven't all insurers taken advantage of the vast repositories of insight that lie only just...
4/10/2020 11:14:17 AM Emulate the digital mastery of FANGS- Amazon, Google..... By Mike Daly "Insurers Admire Digital Giants and Insurtechs More Than Any Other Competitor for Their Approaches to Innovation" Gartner 2020 CIO's...
2/17/2020 10:45:19 AM Structured data: accountant killer, insurer thriller By Mike Daly MTD. Making Tax Digital. Sounds so benign... so modern. Yet for many small accountancy firms in the UK, this is a death knell. What...
3/28/2019 12:24:42 PM Internet Evidence Is the Next Big Thing In eDiscovery- or is it? By Mike Daly First of all it is already a big thing. There is valuable evidence to be found on the internet but there is also a great deal of fudge....
3/22/2019 9:34:58 AM How spatial analysis is changing our cities By Mike Daly Location Data, data and more data; lakes and oceans of data. Layered and interactive. Vital as an additional tool in the big data...
12/13/2018 12:23:00 PM Blockchain: what’s it good for? Not all a lot, says report By Mike Daly For a technology invented over 10 years ago it does seem a solution looking for a problem. Ambitious white papers and press releases...
11/19/2018 2:27:48 PM Today's Deep Learning "AI" Is Machine Learning Not Magic By Mike Daly Not magic- reading about the SpiNNaker supercomputer today just reinforced this. "Even with a million processors we can only approach 1%...
11/7/2018 11:42:45 AM Building New Data Engines for Insurers By Mike Daly WHY? Data driven decision creates an upside of from 6% to 9% of an insurer’s combined ratio - Source BCG Studies. Which insurer can...
11/1/2018 5:29:01 PM Uber's Latest Initiative Is Genius and Hardly Anyone Is Noticing It By Mike Daly Uber's latest approach is teaching us about the value of being unconventional. Using data and analytics to spot and identify a demand gap...
9/4/2018 5:46:54 PM Data Storytelling: The Critical Link Between Analytics And Business By Mike Daly Standalone Analytics and BI are like the "Emperor's New Clothes". - NAKED and laughable. Our insurance customers in the US, Australia, UK...
7/23/2018 5:43:17 PM Factfulness and why chimpanzees make better decisions than humans By Mike Daly In November 2016 I wrote "The average expert was roughly as accurate as a dart throwing chimpanzee! They were no better than random...
6/18/2018 3:32:07 PM Growth, creativity and analytics By Mike Daly "One CMO in our survey said, “You don’t create exciting things for people by figuring out things from data.” Actually, we believe that’s...
5/29/2018 9:45:12 AM Big Companies Are Embracing Analytics, But Most Still Don’t Have a Data-Driven Culture By Mike Daly Research shows the ups and downs of investments in analytics projects and the fixation on AI. HBR article ( link at end of article)...
4/30/2018 2:34:04 PM Insurers fail to turn data into usable ideas By Mike Daly If you only access and analyse 10% to 20% of enterprise data it is not surprising that Aon Chief Executive Greg Case states insurers are...