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The Three Pillars of Corporate Performance Management for the Insurance Sector

"Change" is the watchword for the insurance sector. Increasing customer churn and pressure on premiums are eroding profitability, highlighting the need for significant cost reductions in the areas of customer acquisition and service. This threatens the traditional operating model as organizations re-evaluate current routes to market and redesign internal processes in the never-ending search for greater efficiency.

Faced with the need for change, many insurers recognize that they are ill equipped to provide executives with the management information required to restore and maintain the desired level of profitability. For insurers there are three core financial management processes:

Cost and Profitability Analytics
Many insurers are not able to report on product, customer and channel profitability with the frequency they desire, even though this information is critical for decision-making at both strategic and operational levels

Long-Range Financial Planning
In today’s markets, strategic planning models need to be refreshed and evaluated with increasing frequency. This means routinely updating assumptions about both the external and internal drivers of profitability. Because many of these critical pieces of information such as customer attrition rates and unit costs reside in other applications, this is not always easy. Stand-alone, long-range planning models therefore compromise an organization’s ability to continually review and test assumptions that underpin strategy.

Operational Planning and Budgeting
Many organizations recognize that their annual planning and budgeting process is laboriousness, costly and rapid obsolete. This is because operational managers first model the demands facing their department to identify their resource requir

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zations re-evaluate current routes to market and redesign internal processes in the never-ending search for greater efficiency.

Faced with the need for change, many insurers recognize that they are ill equipped to provide executives with the management information required to restore and maintain the desired level of profitability. For insurers there are three core financial management processes:

Cost and Profitability Analytics
Many insurers are not able to report on product, customer and channel profitability with the frequency they desire, even though this information is critical for decision-making at both strategic and operational levels

Long-Range Financial Planning
In today’s markets, strategic planning models need to be refreshed and evaluated with increasing frequency. This means routinely updating assumptions about both the external and internal drivers of profitability. Because many of these critical pieces of information such as customer attrition rates and unit costs reside in other applications, this is not always easy. Stand-alone, long-range planning models therefore compromise an organization’s ability to continually review and test assumptions that underpin strategy.

Operational Planning and Budgeting
Many organizations recognize that their annual planning and budgeting process is laboriousness, costly and rapid obsolete. This is because operational managers first model the demands facing their department to identify their resource requi

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nagement processes:

Cost and Profitability Analytics
Many insurers are not able to report on product, customer and channel profitability with the frequency they desire, even though this information is critical for decision-making at both strategic and operational levels

Long-Range Financial Planning
In today’s markets, strategic planning models need to be refreshed and evaluated with increasing frequency. This means routinely updating assumptions about both the external and internal drivers of profitability. Because many of these critical pieces of information such as customer attrition rates and unit costs reside in other applications, this is not always easy. Stand-alone, long-range planning models therefore compromise an organization’s ability to continually review and test assumptions that underpin strategy.

Operational Planning and Budgeting
Many organizations recognize that their annual planning and budgeting process is laboriousness, costly and rapid obsolete. This is because operational managers first model the demands facing their department to identify their resource requi

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need to be refreshed and evaluated with increasing frequency. This means routinely updating assumptions about both the external and internal drivers of profitability. Because many of these critical pieces of information such as customer attrition rates and unit costs reside in other applications, this is not always easy. Stand-alone, long-range planning models therefore compromise an organization’s ability to continually review and test assumptions that underpin strategy.

Operational Planning and Budgeting
Many organizations recognize that their annual planning and budgeting process is laboriousness, costly and rapid obsolete. This is because operational managers first model the demands facing their department to identify their resource requi

Problem Solution: Global Communications Corporation
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organization’s ability to continually review and test assumptions that underpin strategy.

Operational Planning and Budgeting
Many organizations recognize that their annual planning and budgeting process is laboriousness, costly and rapid obsolete. This is because operational managers first model the demands facing their department to identify their resource requirements and then calculate the cost of these resources; all of this done on spreadsheets outside the core budgeting application.

Incorporating this off-line modeling and joining the pieces together with rules that span departments and time-periods transforms planning and budgeting. Managers simply review and update non-financial data such as sales conversion rates, loss ratios, staff productivity ratios and unit resource costs and the model predicts their line item expenses; they can either accept them or amend them. This approach is called ‘driver-based budgeting’.

Corporate Performance Management in a Single Solution

Despite being inter-related, these three pillars of corporate performance management are typically carried out in disparate systems. The correct approach for insurers is to use a single performance management system for strategic planning, budgeting, and activity-based costing. This system needs to allow users to develop linked models that cover different functionality across different parts of the organization that can easily be consolidated for enterprise-wide reporting.

Delivering this functionality seamlessly in a single solution both reduces the administrative overhead in the Finance function and improves the transparency, timeliness and integrity of management information. With one version of ‘the truth’, Finance can reconcile the strategic, financial and activity-based views of the organization into one ove

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I recently attended a Microsoft event at their corporate headquarters in Redmond, Washington. This event was a fantastic opportunity to meet with fellow leaders in the Microsoft partner community from around the world and spend quality time with each one of them. The event was held over four days and we had a very tight schedule and the importance of timeliness was critical to its overall success.

Contemporary economic models present the typical consumer as deliberative and highly forward-looking, not subject to impulsive behavior. Shopping for a product or a service is seen as an information-gathering exercise in which the buyers look for the best possible deal for products and/or services they have decided to purchase.

Letting Fun Increase your Bottom Line What is the best way to reenergize the workplace? It can be as easy as having a little fun! While training and observing groups as a corporate trainer and team builder over the past few years, I am always amazed at how a group of strangers gel and become a team in a matter of hours. Groups on teambuilding retreats can become closer to each other in one day than some people do in years of working with each other in offices. The major reason I attribute the success of these groups to and the way they gel is the use of “fun”. Here are fourteen ways to put fun in your business:

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