6/1/2021 8:36:53 AM European insurtech startup Wefox grabs $650 million at $3 billion valuation By Mike Daly Four times oversubscribed this funding round! Another interesting take is that Wefox has a different strategy than many insurers. "But...
4/14/2021 8:44:16 AM AI Comes to Car Repair, and Body Shop Owners Aren’t Happy By Mike Daly During the pandemic, insurers accelerated the use of automated tools to estimate repair costs. Garage operators say the numbers can be...
2/26/2021 12:16:00 PM Lessons from Britain’s pandemic on promoting innovation By Mike Daly Move fast and remove barriers are the best things the government can do One is to speed up governmental processes. The rapidity with...
9/27/2019 11:09:53 AM How disrupters look at financial services? By Mike Daly Valuable insights from Maarten Ectors Chief Innovation Officer at L&G. Why? He is a disrupter himself from outside financial services....
3/29/2019 11:46:23 AM McKinsey’s Three Horizons Model Defined Innovation for Years. Here’s Why It No Longer Applies. By Mike Daly "When first articulated by Baghai, Coley, and White in 2000, in The Alchemy of Growth, the Three Horizons model was a breakthrough. Over...
3/18/2019 12:43:14 PM Like banking before it, could insurance be about to have its own digital revolution? By Mike Daly Focus here in the products themselves i.e. "buying the same product that our parents' generation would've bought". Call to arms here for...
2/11/2019 11:04:15 AM What's in a name? By Mike Daly I wonder what people would have thought of when they first came across the name "Google"? Today it has world-wide name recognition with...
1/10/2019 9:36:27 AM Will blockchain replace core banking in 2019? By Mike Daly Here's a man who should know after 40 POCs and 4 projects at the first bank to actually transact over blockchain- otherwise named...
12/3/2018 11:48:44 AM Out of 43 Blockchain Startups, Zero Have Delivered Products 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...
9/26/2018 12:00:00 AM Three Signals Your Industry Is About to Be Disrupted By Mike Daly Complacency is the achilles heel- check out these warning signals. Sign No. 1: Your Industry Has Significant Regulatory Burdens Sign #2:...
9/23/2018 12:00:00 AM 94% of Banking Firms Can’t Deliver on ‘Personalization Promise’ By Mike Daly Worrying report for many mainstream banks who face competition not only from new innovative banks but also from the kings of customer UX...
9/6/2018 12:13:43 PM New Artificial Intelligence Does Something Extraordinary — It Remembers By Mike Daly One of the major limitations of AI is labelled "That’s a big problem. See, cutting-edge algorithms learn, so to speak, after analyzing...
9/4/2018 12:02:30 PM TO GET THE MOST FROM DIGITAL YOU NEED TO CHANGE THE WAY YOU RUN YOUR BUSINESS By Mike Daly "·The new breed of IT director will focus on how to get the business using the best tools for the job, and will not be biased in favour...
8/3/2018 11:28:21 AM Lloyds Banking Group – a £3 billion digital transformation progress report By Mike Daly Shows the scale of undertaking digital transformation is. Article all about the banking side. Would be interesting to know the parallel...
7/16/2018 11:47:24 AM Five Evidence-Based Factors in Transformation Success By Mike Daly Important BCG Study reported in MIT Sloane Management Review details five critical success factors (CSF) in successful digital...
7/6/2018 12:00:00 AM THE CURRENT PROBLEM WITH DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION By Mike Daly "“when it comes to digital transformation, most companies don’t know what they don’t know.” Heather Clancey Fortune 2016 CEOs, Digital...