Todd Rollin

In our previous blog, we outlined five ways that insurers can adopt a decision-first approach to accelerate the digitization of your business. Below, we take a deeper dive into these areas. Adopt a decision-first approach: Rather than start with data, forward-looking insurers are defining their most critical business objectives and decision models before consider…

Let’s face it – while many see digital disruption as the future in insurance, in fact new entrants into the space have been hindered by the product complexity, distribution systems and legacy infrastructure that the insurance industry carries with it. The landscape is changing, however – consumers (and businesses) are moving quickly to go with insurers that offer targ…

When today’s businesses create a list of must-haves in the race to alter and ultimately transform how they operate, machine learning is one of those checkbox necessities. And indeed, when you run the gamut of business-consumer touchpoints, machine learning is, indeed, one of the mainstays. What’s machine learning, and why is it needed? Machine learning is powered by…

Automation has played a fundamental role in enabling businesses to make better, more consistent and more strategically sound decisions. Increasingly sophisticated cloud-based software has given organizations the capacity to define the policies and regulations that drive decisions, and then to incorporate analytics into models – decision services – that can be refined…

In our blog series, we’ve spoken about how digital transformation often starts with discovering hidden insights within your business, as well as uncovering how your people are critical to driving change, even as AI and automation seem to be threatening jobs. The role of analytics is often a confusing one when it comes to transformation. Analytics are a key bridge bet…

In my last post on digital transformation, I talked about how it’s tempting to track your competition in the race to disrupt and transform your industry, but that every business’s DNA mandates an approach specific to your challenges and objectives. When you start to uncover new insights that are transformational, it’s critical to consider one often overlooked fact: Y…

This is the second post in this series - read post one here. Marcel Proust wasn’t ruminating about digital transformation when he said, “We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.” But this statement could well align with what businesses face in their DX evolution. Putting a new vision to work —…

“The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil, forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats and biodiversity… that’s all there is. That’s the whole economy. That’s where all the economic activity and jobs come from. These biological systems are the sustaining wealth of the world.” – Gaylord Nelson, former US Senator and founder of Ear…

Harnessing the potential of wind energy is a challenging problem, from capture through conversion into electrical power. A key facet of wind farm design is how the turbines are placed. A “typical” wind farm project may encompass 200×300 grid points on the wind map to cover 20 turbines; if you consider the number of ways to position these turbines, the placement proble…

With more than 1.7 million customers and 50,000 businesses, Yarra Valley Water is Melbourne’s largest water and sewerage utility. From day one, it has sought to provide timely and excellent customer service, culminating in, among other enhancements, the development of its easyACCESS system to automate its development application process. The project has seen the compa…

The INFORMS conferences continue to unveil game-changing approaches that businesses are using advanced analytics such as optimization to literally transform lives and businesses. For those of you who aren’t familiar, The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) is the largest society in the world for professionals in the field of operat…