A.M. Best's E-Fusion Podcast Interviews Penn National CIO William Jenkins on Effective IT Presentations.OLDWICK, N.J. -- The latest edition of A.M. Best's E-Fusion Podcast explores, with William Jenkins William Jenkins can refer to:
Jenkins, a vice president and chief information officer of property/casualty insurer An individual or company who, through a contractual agreement, undertakes to compensate specified losses, liability, or damages incurred by another individual. An insurer is frequently an insurance company and is also known as an underwriter. Penn National, discusses the importance of focusing on business aspects and benefits when presenting project overviews. "Stay out of the weeds 1. weeds - Refers to development projects or algorithms that have no possible relevance or practical application. Comes from "off in the weeds". Used in phrases like "lexical analysis for microcode is serious weeds." 2. ," he advises those who prefer to dwell on to continue long on or in; to remain absorbed with; to stick to; to make much of; as, to dwell upon a subject; a singer dwells on a note s>. - Shak. See also: Dwell the programming or technical aspects of an undertaking, especially when presenting to a nontechnical audience. Jenkins is an insurance veteran who has formerly served as president of Acord, the insurance standards organization A standards organization, also sometimes referred to as a standards body, a standards development organization or SDO (depending on what is being referenced), is any entity whose primary activities are developing, coordinating, promulgating, revising, amending, , and as a judge at previous E-Fusion conferences. He's serving as a judge at this year's E-Fusion event as well. In the online interview, Jenkins explains how the principles of good tech presentations in daily business also make for the most effective E-Fusion Awards presentation; contain a clear focus on why the project was undertaken, what resources were required and what the payoff has been. A.M. Best's E-Fusion Conference focuses on developments in insurance technology, insurance issues and operations. Part of the conference involves finalists making presentations for the E-Fusion Awards. The awards, which are independently judged, seek to recognize innovative uses of insurance technology. The E-Fusion conference is set for Oct. 23 and 24 in Boston. Conference registration is still open. In conjunction with the conference, A.M. Best Co. has launched a new podcast series focused on insurance technology and the E-Fusion Conference. The audio series covers technology developments, conference details and the E-Fusion Awards. Each episode includes an interview with a technology leader associated with the E-Fusion Conference. Links to listen to and subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; the E-Fusion Podcast are available at: http://feeds.feedburner.com/e-fusion2006. iTunes users can subscribe at: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id= 165758578 (Due to its length, this URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.) Conference information is available at www.efusion2006.com. A.M. Best Co., established in 1899, is the world's oldest and most authoritative insurance rating and information source. For more information, visit A.M. Best's Web site at www.ambest.com. |
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