Blog: Five reasons insurance incumbents secretly think they aren't going to get disrupted
I was privileged to be able to attend a roundtable discussion this week on innovation in the insurance space and found the conversation surprising.
The discussion started well with attendees building a list of the key attributes of the successful insurance offering of the future, namely (and no surprises here):
• Mobile
• Data rich
• Built around
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