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Insurance: Discovering the Missing Link of Business Architecture

Date:

January 14, 2009

Time:

12:00 pm US Eastern

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Featured Speakers:

Cindy Maike, Co-Founder, Smallwood Maike Associates (bio)
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Roundtable Mission:

Change is inevitable, even for insurers. While many insurance executives claim that they embrace change, many are merely implementing bandaid solutions on top of old brittle business and IT environments. On the other hand, real leaders in the global insurance market know that it is essential to guide change from a business perspective. They let business reason drive technological transformation, as opposed to letting technological changes derail the business.

Within the next few years, transformational business models around business agility will begin to fully realize the potential of SOA and BPM. This will enable insurers to expand product offerings, reinvent service levels, and drive efficiencies. To achieve these results, architecture is the link between business strategy and technology. Ultimately, a complete and comprehensive business architecture allows an insurer to experience the full potential of available technologies. This in turn makes the insurer more agile to adapt to the changing demands, higher expectations and increased competition of the dynamic landscape.

Event Overview:

In insurance today, business architecture is the missing link - not fully understood or embraced across the industry, especially in the business community.

This live roundtable discussion will focus on discovering the missing link - Business Architecture in Insurance. The panel will be moderated by Cindy Maike, Co-Founder of Smallwood Maike & Associates. Panelists will include expert insurance specialists, industry analysts, business architects and leading insurance strategists. This group will discuss the challenges, the opportunities and the action plans required to make business architecture drive success in the insurance industry.

You will learn:

  • Understand the concept of “Enterprise Linkage” – linking strategy to process to IT investments through business architecture
  • Clear definitions of business architecture, business capability model, and process decomposition and why they are so important
  • How SOA and BPM are leveraged to enable a cohesive business architecture
  • Steps to create an action plan to get started
  • Ways to get the business to ‘embrace’ and ‘own’ business architecture



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Featured Speaker Bios:


"Both at IBM and at ACORD, I had the opportunity to be involved early in the development of SOA, particularly as it applies to the insurance industry. I know what it means to think 'service-oriented,' and I'm excited about helping our clients at Smallwood Maike develop this new mindset...and reap the rewards that will follow." ...Cindy Maike


A co-founder of Smallwood Maike, Cindy Maike brings clients a wealth of insurance and financial services experience, grounded in the business but reaching deeply into the technology. Prior to Smallwood Maike, in a variety of leadership positions at IBM and ACORD, she honed her skills in business architecture, development/standards, global software marketing, business strategy, management consulting, business architecture, and IT strategy. She has also been and continues to be an advocate and active participant in the development of insurance industry business architecture, process modeling, and information standards.



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