ADVISORY/Internet Guru Mohan Sawhney to Present Seven Steps to e-Insurance Nirvana At Deloitte Consulting and Deloitte & Touche's Insurance Conference.Businesss Editors MEDIA ADVISORY . . . CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 27, 2000 Program Aims to Help Midwest Insurers Take Lead in a Rapidly Developing E-Insurance Market In the past year, Internet-enabled insurance has emerged as one of the most rapidly expanding areas of online financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. . With the opportunity to learn from early successes--and failures--in other sectors of financial services, insurers are poised to make decisive moves into the online economy. That's the impetus behind Deloitte Consulting and Deloitte & Touche's Midwest Insurance Conference, "Connected Economy--Opportunities for the North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. Insurance Industry." The conference will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 6 at Sheraton Gateway Suites, 6501 N. Mannheim Road in Rosemont. It will bring together such e-commerce and insurance experts as Mohanbir Sawhney, Kellogg electronic commerce and technology professor and BusinessWeek-proclaimed Internet guru; Robert Bland, Founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Quotesmith.com; and Jim Hollen, co-founder and senior vice president of business development of ChannelPoint. Sawhney's keynote address keynote address n. An opening address, as at a political convention, that outlines the issues to be considered. Also called keynote speech. Noun 1. , "Breaking Your Boundaries: From Business to e-Business" will present the seven steps to e-insurance nirvana, taking participants through a systematic framework for thinking about e-business transformation, from formulating strategy to synchronizing synchronizing, n a technique that a therapist uses to coordinate his or her breath with that of the client; builds trust and establishes relationship. channels to rallying people. In whole, the program will focus on opportunities and barriers in using the Internet to renew relationships with customers and agents and streamline internal business processes. Speakers will reference examples from early-moving players in e-insurance to illustrate lessons learned. "Insurers were slower out of the e-business gate than other financial services sectors but are catching-up rapidly. The number of start-ups in e-insurance is doubling approximately every six months, and the sector is attracting hundreds of millions of dollars of venture capital." said Kenneth Porrello, director of Deloitte Consulting's North American Insurance Practice. "Now is the time for traditional insurers to place their bets." The event is free to invited guests, and those interested in attending can contact Judy Fabrizius at (312) 374-3210 or jfabrizius@dc.com. About Deloitte Chicago With a staff of more than 800 consultants in the Chicago practice, Deloitte Consulting continues to be the city's leader in providing e-business strategy, operations, change management and technology solutions for a variety of industries, including consumer business, manufacturing, financial services, healthcare and communications. The firm has served a wide range of Chicago organizations, including Ameritech, Sears, Allstate, CNA (Certified NetWare Administrator) See Novell certification. Insurance, McDonald's, PlasticsNet and the City of Chicago. About Deloitte Consulting Deloitte Consulting is one of the world's leading e-Business consulting firms, providing services in all aspects of enterprise transformation, from strategy and processes to information technology and human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. . The firm's e-Business professionals help clients create, defend and/or reinvent re·in·vent tr.v. re·in·vent·ed, re·in·vent·ing, re·in·vents 1. To make over completely: "She reinvented Indian cooking to fit a Western kitchen and a Western larder" their business and economic models by guiding them through the complexities of the evolving digital economy. Deloitte Consulting is a part of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Deloitte & Touche (also referred to as Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, and branded as Deloitte.) is the second largest professional services firm in the world, and one of the Big Four auditors, along with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young and KPMG. , one of the world's leading professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. firms, which provides assurance and advisory, tax, and consulting services through more than 90,000 people in more than 130 countries. The firm serves nearly one-fifth of the world's largest companies as well as large national enterprises, public institutions, and successful fast-growing companies. For more information about Deloitte Consulting, visit http://www.dc.com. |
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