5 Tech Trends Set to Disrupt Health Care in 2020

In our final entry in this series on disruption in insurance, we discuss how innovation programs actually work for insurers to beat disruption in the industry. If you haven’t read the previous entries in the series, 5 Technologies Disrupting the Insurance Industry and 3 Startups Disrupting the Insurance Industry, I suggest doing so, as they’ll provide useful context for when you read this article. As we’ve discussed in those blogs,

In our last blog post, 5 Technologies Disrupting the Insurance Industry, we established that disruptive technologies are rapidly changing the insurance industry landscape and that firms, especially large incumbents, must respond and innovate around disruption to survive and thrive.   Innovation is the natural and correct response to disruption. Innovation can be incremental, when a firm adopts pieces of new technology to keep current with trends, or disruptive, when a firm

There’s an increasing demand in businesses big and small for new ideas not just from management but from employees, customers, and partners at the front-lines.

Anyone working in technology or innovation has heard of it- disruption, the most pressing recent phenomenon facing businesses in any industry today. Wikipedia defines disruptive innovation as “an innovation that creates a new market and value network and eventually disrupts an existing market and value network, displacing established market-leading firms, products, and alliances.” While disruptive technologies have changed business landscapes since the industrial revolution, only recently has technology begun to

With your innovation goals in place and a strategy to execute on them ready to implement, it’s time to let everyone know.

In manufacturing, “lean manufacturing” or simply “lean” has become a dominant management philosophy, deciding much of how the manufacturing component of the supply chain is handled to maximize efficiency of resources. Lean focuses on minimizing waste by identifying activities that add value and separating them from those that don’t, emphasizing the elimination of those that don’t.   Due to lean’s success in the manufacturing industry, managers in other industries began

2019 has brought your organization new energy to focus on innovation and a new set of goals that you’re looking to hit. But how are you going to achieve them?

In manufacturing, “lean manufacturing” or simply “lean” has become a dominant management philosophy, deciding much of how the manufacturing component of the supply chain is handled to maximize efficiency of resources. Lean focuses on minimizing waste by identifying activities that add value and separating them from those that don’t, emphasizing the elimination of those that don’t.   Due to lean’s success in the manufacturing industry, managers in other industries began

In manufacturing, “lean manufacturing” or simply “lean” has become a dominant management philosophy, deciding much of how the manufacturing component of the supply chain is handled to maximize efficiency of resources. Lean focuses on minimizing waste by identifying activities that add value and separating them from those that don’t, emphasizing the elimination of those that don’t.   Due to lean’s success in the manufacturing industry, managers in other industries began

In manufacturing, “lean manufacturing” or simply “lean” has become a dominant management philosophy, deciding much of how the manufacturing component of the supply chain is handled to maximize efficiency of resources. Lean focuses on minimizing waste by identifying activities that add value and separating them from those that don’t, emphasizing the elimination of those that don’t.   Due to lean’s success in the manufacturing industry, managers in other industries began