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In an unfortunate bit of irony for businesses, the very apps that are intended to help smoothly run the business and drive workplace efficiency actually may be making their staffers less productive.

This scenario plays out in a situation that's been dubbed "app overload." It's been called the silent productivity killer, due to its counterintuitive nature.

Interviewed by Adam Burroughs | Smart Business Magazine | INSIGHTS Digital Transformation

Businesses should use data they collect to validate decisions, measure performance and find areas of improvement. To do that, data should be visible, consistently formatted and shareable. But it's typically not.

"Business data often needs to be formed into a better, more consumable shape," says Mehul Kenia, a product architect at EOX Vantage. "That's usually because it's stored in discrete systems, even when companies take a cloud-based approach to storage. That makes data hard to link for a clear, holistic picture."

Doing Brisk Business: You Need Speed to Succeed

Published in Rough Notes | September 2020 issue
Author: Mike Fieseler

If the marketplace were a racetrack, today's policy seekers want to drive a high-performance sports car instead of an old gear-grinding jalopy - which is what traditional operating models of insurance left them with, until recently. Insurance has made steady progress transforming its old-school, paper-based, in-person ethos, but in 2020 the COVID pandemic has super-accelerated the overall trend toward speed.

Automation 101

Interviewed by Adam Burroughs | Smart Business Magazine | INSIGHTS Digital Transformation

Workflow automation, a key element of the solution strategies known as "digital transformation," enables companies to automate various business processes. This can have a big impact not just on efficiency and accuracy, but on motivation and morale as well.

PART 2

Welcome to part 2 in our review of how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the ways companies do business - in the short term, as well as probably in the long term and perhaps forever.

PART 1

The pandemic has changed the ways companies do business... in the short term, probably in the long term and in some cases likely forever. We have published some pieces recently on the virus's effects on the insurance industry. Now we want to take a broader view and see what it has done for all kinds of businesses in the economy.

Published in CHART Exchange | July 2020 issue
Author: Mike Fieseler

In just a few months, the COVID-19 pandemic has completely changed the world, basic human interactions and how companies do business. Being in risk management and mitigation guaranteed the insurance industry would not be an exception. The global crisis forced insurers to react quickly and comprehensively.

Interviewed by Adam Burroughs | Smart Business Magazine

Many companies understand the importance, or at least the utility, of cloud platforms and have migrated a great deal of their systems and applications there. Some have digitized processes as a way to save time and money and help move staff to more productive tasks. In these cases, employees are comfortable working and accessing information on the cloud.

"That's really helped them minimize the loss of productivity or efficiency that companies with only on-premise systems likely experienced when, suddenly, their workforce was compelled to work remote," says Sudhir Achar, CEO of EOX Vantage.

Published in CHART Exchange | April 2020 issue
Author: Harsha Chaturvedi

Digital transformation and disruptive technologies continue to impact the insurance industry. Until just recently, the everyday tasks of the business primarily ran on manual-input processes. Now the industry is increasingly going paperless and embracing digital transmission for its distribution networks.

Original article by Chris Galford | TransportationToday | Published April 22, 2020