Market Analysis
published on Jul 24, 2020
Report Overview:
NelsonHall’s “Impact of Digital on Life Insurance Sector: 2020” 55-page report is based on global interviewing of senior executives across the life insurance sector in four geographies: U.S., U.K., Continental Europe, and Asia Pacific.
The report identifies the principal business issues faced by life insurance firms over the period 2020-2022, the IT and digital initiatives planned in response to these issues, and their anticipated changes in IT spend and sourcing.
In particular, the report analyzes the importance of digital to life insurance firms and focuses on the nature of the digital initiatives planned by life insurance firms by application and technology, together with the key benefits required from digital by life insurance firms and their supplier selection criteria when purchasing digital services.
Who is this Report for:
NelsonHall’s “Impact of Digital on IT Services in Life Insurance Sector: 2020” report is a comprehensive market assessment report designed for:
- Sourcing managers investigating sourcing developments within the Life Insurance sector
- Vendor marketing, sales and business managers developing strategies to target IT services (ITS) opportunities within the Life Insurance sector
- Financial analysts and investors specializing in the IT services and BPS sector
Scope of this Report:
sector in the U.S., U.K., Continental Europe, and Asia Pacific.
The report analyzes the worldwide market for IT services within the Life Insurance sector and addresses the following questions:
- What are the principal business priorities faced by organizations in the Life Insurance sector?
- What IT initiatives are planned by organizations in the Life Insurance sector?
- How relevant are digital initiatives to organizations in the Life Insurance sector?
- What digital initiatives are planned by organizations in the Life Insurance sector?
- What business areas are targeted for digital initiatives by organizations in the Life Insurance sector?
- What digital technologies are planned to be introduced by organizations in the Life Insurance sector?
- What are the key selection criteria used by organizations in the Life Insurance sector to select suppliers to implement digital initiatives?
- What shifts in sourcing approach are expected by executives in the Life Insurance sector over the next three years?
- How do companies in the Life Insurance sector expect their spend on ITS services to change over the next three years?
Key Findings & Highlights:
- Accelerate customer service delivery by shifting a greater proportion of customer interactions to digital channels
- Leverage analytics and cognitive to gain a better understanding of customer needs to ensure customer services and marketing campaigns are most effective.
Accordingly, life insurance companies are:
- Implementing digital channels targeting customer services such as agency management, new business processing, and account servicing
- Expanding the use of analytics, cognitive and machine learning to better understand customer needs and target marketing campaigns
- Retiring legacy application and migrating a larger proportion of the IT landscape to cloud environments and SaaS-based applications.