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What your CFO really needs in periods of economic uncertainty

CIO Business Intelligence

The pressure is on to navigate economic uncertainty. Keep tabs on the keep the lights on (KTLO) budget If you fall on hard times in your personal life, you pay for your mortgage, health insurance, and groceries first to cover the necessities: shelter, security, and food, respectively.

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Peak Preparedness: How Technology Allows Insurers to Manage Sudden Changes in Demand

CIO Business Intelligence

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, it shook every industry to the core, but especially and dramatically affected health insurers. In addition, they faced an onslaught of claims and initial uncertainty about cost and payments for antibody testing, evolving treatments, and, later, vaccines.

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Re-thinking The Insurance Industry In Real-Time To Cope With Pandemic-scale Disruption

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The Insurance industry is in uncharted waters and COVID-19 has taken us where no algorithm has gone before. Today’s models, norms, and averages are being re-written on the fly, with insurers forced to cope with the inevitable conflict between old standards and the new normal. . Insurers are thinking on their feet.

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PODCAST: COVID19 | Redefining Digital Enterprises – Episode 4: COVID-19 | Implications and Impact on Insurance Industry

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Episode 4: COVID-19 | Implications and Impact on Insurance Industry. COVID-19 | Implications and Impact on Insurance Industry. In this episode, Anirban Chaudhury talks about how insurers the world over are grappling with new and unprecedented challenges to balance high financial losses, increasing new premiums, and rising claims.

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Global managed services to grow in 2024 as enterprise IT spending rises

CIO Business Intelligence

The region (Western Europe) maintained strong growth despite various economic and geopolitical uncertainties. Many of the large deals were signed in the Nordics, including the Danske Bank and Infosys contract and the LahiTapiola Mutual Insurance and CG deal, which further fueled the growth in the region.” billion, IDC said.

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Zendesk to lay off another 8% of its staff, cites macroeconomic issues

CIO Business Intelligence

CRM software provider Zendesk is reducing another 8% of its workforce citing macroeconomic uncertainty, just six months after the company laid off 300 staffers for the same reason. The new tranche of layoffs, according to Eggemeier, can be attributed to continued macroeconomic uncertainty and increased competition from rivals.

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Exploring the digital impact in Northern Ireland’s health and social care system

CIO Business Intelligence

CIO Leadership Live’s Drinkwater recently spoke with West about how to put people first in a system under increasing pressure to function as it strives to digitally transform amid a backdrop of political and environmental uncertainty. Watch the full video below for more insights. I’m also quite passionate about the local technology sector.