BCG and ZA Tech, two companies, I have interacted with quite a bit, have shared some interesting datapoints. They are taken in the Singaporean context but still bear significant insights for the European markets.
This document discusses bolttech's goal of supercharging its tech-enabled ecosystem for embedded insurance. It provides an overview of bolttech's global insurance exchange platform that connects insurers, distributors, and customers, allowing partners to easily embed insurance. The summary highlights examples of bolttech collaborating with partners in Europe, such as developing device protection services for WINDTRE and embedding insurance into loyalty cards for Amplifon's hearing aid customers.
The document discusses trends in funding for insurtech companies globally and in India, with funding increasing significantly in recent years. It also outlines several critical themes shaping the insurance industry in India according to perspectives from insurers and insurtech companies, such as the emergence of new customer segments, the importance of distribution, enhancing customer experience, and the growing role of data and analytics. Finally, it provides more details on these themes and perspectives from various stakeholders in the industry.
This document summarizes AIA China's Smart Claim system. Smart Claim uses AI and data to automate insurance claims processing. It aims to improve the customer experience by automating over 55% of claims, reducing average claim processing time to 3 days, and maximizing claim payments for customers. The system analyzes medical documents, applies rules to make claim decisions, and detects potential fraud. It also continuously optimizes rules through data analytics to improve performance. Smart Claim has increased AIA China's straight-through processing rate to over 55% compared to 13.9% previously, and automated claims for product types where competitors have not.
The document summarizes a no-code platform called CoverGo for Health that transforms the insurance industry. The platform includes modular components that can be assembled like Lego blocks to provide a fully configurable health insurance administration system. It allows insurance companies to build and launch products faster, enable digital distribution channels, and automate processes to reduce costs. The platform has been adopted by major insurance companies globally and is powered by over 500 open insurance APIs for integration.
Coherent provides a platform called Coherent Spark that helps companies convert their spreadsheet models into scalable and connected cloud services. It summarizes that Coherent Spark allows companies to:
- Convert spreadsheet business logic into application logic through APIs
- Control spreadsheet environments for compliance, governance and cost savings
- Connect spreadsheet outputs to core systems, analytics and other destinations
Spark provides benefits like accelerated transformation, reduced costs and risks, and improved collaboration between business and IT. Case studies show how Coherent Spark helped insurance companies save time and costs in product development, underwriting, and deploying new offerings.
Reinsurance Group of America (RGA) - Insurer transformation Award 2022The Digital Insurer
RGA has developed a comprehensive underwriting ecosystem to transform life insurance underwriting through strategic partnerships, new technologies, and expanded capacity and services. This includes an end-to-end suite of underwriting solutions, tools for faster online decisions, and programs leveraging new data and technologies to modernize risk assessment and underwriting processes. The ecosystem has supported significant growth in facultative case reviews and auto-decisioning capabilities, helping insurers scale and improve the customer experience.
The document summarizes CoverGo, a no-code insurance platform that allows insurance companies to build and launch insurance products faster, enable digital distribution channels, and automate end-to-end processes. CoverGo addresses common pain points for insurers like slow product development, high customer acquisition costs, and reliance on rigid legacy systems. It provides a modular platform with tools for no-code product configuration, digital portals for distribution and servicing, and microservices powered by open APIs that enable integration and automation. CoverGo has over 30 clients across various countries and supports multiple insurance product lines.
The document discusses how to build a digital insurance company. It outlines that insurers are evolving from traditional to digital enterprises to adapt to changing market drivers and customer expectations. This requires developing new digital business models, providing an omni-channel customer experience, becoming more customer-centric, innovating products/services, being insight-driven, and improving efficiency. The document provides strategies for unifying the customer experience, simplifying operations, engaging customers, and responding to customers in a timely manner. It also discusses developing a holistic digital strategy through small, continuous projects that deliver business value.
This document discusses bolttech's goal of supercharging its tech-enabled ecosystem for embedded insurance. It provides an overview of bolttech's global insurance exchange platform that connects insurers, distributors, and customers, allowing partners to easily embed insurance. The summary highlights examples of bolttech collaborating with partners in Europe, such as developing device protection services for WINDTRE and embedding insurance into loyalty cards for Amplifon's hearing aid customers.
The document discusses trends in funding for insurtech companies globally and in India, with funding increasing significantly in recent years. It also outlines several critical themes shaping the insurance industry in India according to perspectives from insurers and insurtech companies, such as the emergence of new customer segments, the importance of distribution, enhancing customer experience, and the growing role of data and analytics. Finally, it provides more details on these themes and perspectives from various stakeholders in the industry.
This document summarizes AIA China's Smart Claim system. Smart Claim uses AI and data to automate insurance claims processing. It aims to improve the customer experience by automating over 55% of claims, reducing average claim processing time to 3 days, and maximizing claim payments for customers. The system analyzes medical documents, applies rules to make claim decisions, and detects potential fraud. It also continuously optimizes rules through data analytics to improve performance. Smart Claim has increased AIA China's straight-through processing rate to over 55% compared to 13.9% previously, and automated claims for product types where competitors have not.
The document summarizes a no-code platform called CoverGo for Health that transforms the insurance industry. The platform includes modular components that can be assembled like Lego blocks to provide a fully configurable health insurance administration system. It allows insurance companies to build and launch products faster, enable digital distribution channels, and automate processes to reduce costs. The platform has been adopted by major insurance companies globally and is powered by over 500 open insurance APIs for integration.
Coherent provides a platform called Coherent Spark that helps companies convert their spreadsheet models into scalable and connected cloud services. It summarizes that Coherent Spark allows companies to:
- Convert spreadsheet business logic into application logic through APIs
- Control spreadsheet environments for compliance, governance and cost savings
- Connect spreadsheet outputs to core systems, analytics and other destinations
Spark provides benefits like accelerated transformation, reduced costs and risks, and improved collaboration between business and IT. Case studies show how Coherent Spark helped insurance companies save time and costs in product development, underwriting, and deploying new offerings.
Reinsurance Group of America (RGA) - Insurer transformation Award 2022The Digital Insurer
RGA has developed a comprehensive underwriting ecosystem to transform life insurance underwriting through strategic partnerships, new technologies, and expanded capacity and services. This includes an end-to-end suite of underwriting solutions, tools for faster online decisions, and programs leveraging new data and technologies to modernize risk assessment and underwriting processes. The ecosystem has supported significant growth in facultative case reviews and auto-decisioning capabilities, helping insurers scale and improve the customer experience.
The document summarizes CoverGo, a no-code insurance platform that allows insurance companies to build and launch insurance products faster, enable digital distribution channels, and automate end-to-end processes. CoverGo addresses common pain points for insurers like slow product development, high customer acquisition costs, and reliance on rigid legacy systems. It provides a modular platform with tools for no-code product configuration, digital portals for distribution and servicing, and microservices powered by open APIs that enable integration and automation. CoverGo has over 30 clients across various countries and supports multiple insurance product lines.
The document discusses how to build a digital insurance company. It outlines that insurers are evolving from traditional to digital enterprises to adapt to changing market drivers and customer expectations. This requires developing new digital business models, providing an omni-channel customer experience, becoming more customer-centric, innovating products/services, being insight-driven, and improving efficiency. The document provides strategies for unifying the customer experience, simplifying operations, engaging customers, and responding to customers in a timely manner. It also discusses developing a holistic digital strategy through small, continuous projects that deliver business value.
A combination of factors − the pandemic, catastrophic weather events, evolving policyholder expectations, and insurers’ drive for operational efficiency and future relevance − are sparking P&C industry changes.
In a post-COVID, new-normal environment, the most strategic insurers are building resilient, crisis-proof enterprises poised to take advantage of emerging and future business opportunities. They are leveraging advanced data analytics and novel technologies to assure agility and achieve positive revenue and customer satisfaction outcomes. Competitive advantage will hinge on accelerated digitalization and faster go-to-market. Therefore, win-win partnerships and embedded services with InsurTechs and other ecosystem players are critical.
Read Capgemini’s Top P&C Insurance Trends 2022 for a glimpse at the tactical and strategic initiatives carriers are undertaking to boost customer-centricity, product agility, intelligent processes, and an open ecosystem to ensure profitable growth and future-readiness.
Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance Company - Insurer Innovation Award 2023The Digital Insurer
Humanoid is an AI-based voice bot that was implemented by The Digital Insurer to automate the process of scheduling appointments with customers. By using Humanoid, the company was able to contact more customers at lower costs, improve customer experience, increase appointment booking rates, and gain more cross-sell and upsell opportunities. A pilot with 1,300 customers achieved an appointment booking rate of 25% and helped identify areas for improvement. Humanoid utilizes advanced natural language processing and understanding capabilities to understand customer queries, switch between Hindi and English, capture appointment details in real-time, and provide a human-like conversational experience.
The document discusses MyPOS, an integrated sales tool for AIA Sri Lanka designed using cloud technologies. Key points:
- MyPOS provides agents a single app for underwriting, analytics, dashboards, and financial needs analysis to enable a 100% digital customer journey.
- Metrics show MyPOS has helped achieve targets for straight through processing (STP) and digital submissions.
- MyPOS supports organizational transformation by integrating departments and prioritizing a simple, user-friendly interface.
- Success stories highlight benefits like faster processing, reduced errors, increased mobile access, and supporting female agents.
Bolttech is a leading insurtech exchange and digital native provider of insurance and device protection products. It operates across 14 markets with over 7.7 million customers and 1,400 employees. Bolttech offers an insurtech exchange platform that enables partners to connect customers with digital insurance via both SaaS and digital brokerage. In 2020, the exchange platform wrote over 4 million policies and had $4.6 billion in annualized premiums in-force. Bolttech also offers its own digital insurance and device protection products directly to customers.
FWD is using AI across its business to modernize its data architecture and provide intelligent customer experiences. It has developed several AI models including an AI claims processing engine that can approve claims quicker and more accurately, an AI next best offer model that improves upsell/cross-sell conversion rates, and AI lapse prevention models that predict lapses and target customers for retention programs. The company has also implemented successful AI-powered winback campaigns in Thailand and the Philippines that identify former customers most likely to reinstate policies and convert them at higher rates.
- Bolttech partnered with dtac, one of Thailand's largest telcos, to launch dSurance, an embedded insurance platform using Bolttech's technology.
- dSurance allows dtac customers to browse and purchase insurance products directly from dtac's platform, with seamless payment integration.
- The platform launched in under two months and now offers 10 products from 8 carriers, seeing promising early conversion rates for dtac to expand into insurance.
1) ZA Tech provides SaaS solutions that have been battle-tested at scale across borders, business lines, and operating models to support insurers and intermediaries.
2) Their Fusion SaaS platform is a scalable platform that can accelerate insurance go-to-market by providing flexible product configuration, dynamic pricing, and strong ecosystem partner integration capabilities.
3) Case studies demonstrate how Fusion has supported innovative insurance programs at scale for clients like Grab, Klook, and Yahoo, with millions of policies issued and rapid expansion into new markets.
AIA Thailand (ALive, powered by AIA) - Insurer Innovation Award 2022The Digital Insurer
The document describes AIA's ALive ecosystem which serves young families by offering multiple health and wellness offerings through an integrated app. It has seen success with over 500k users since its February 2021 launch. The ecosystem provides community forums, development trackers, wellness content, telemedicine and engages users through chat groups. Rapid iterations have enhanced features, grown content and improved user targeting. Partnerships with other companies have also augmented offerings. The ALive platform has thus created a successful playbook for ecosystems in Asia's life and health insurance industry.
FWD is pursuing a cloud-first strategy to simplify its technology estate and gain competitive advantages like increased agility, scalability, and resilience. Key goals include achieving 100% cloud adoption and app rationalization by 2023. In 2022, FWD achieved 94% cloud adoption and 90% app rationalization across markets. Moving forward, priorities are adopting cloud native patterns and cloud automation techniques to further optimize efficiency and innovation. A Cloud Center of Excellence is coordinating the cloud migration journey following a defined roadmap.
Cover Genius provides embedded insurance through partnerships with large digital companies. It offers regulated insurance policies in over 60 countries and 50 US states. Its API bundles insurance policies dynamically based on location, currency, and language for any product sale worldwide. Cover Genius makes 5,000 claims payments per month in over 90 currencies through its XClaim platform, which allows for instant payments and 24/7 claims assessment in 40+ languages. It partnered with Descartes to reduce claim processing times for Descartes' ShipRush customers from 20 days to 24 hours through automation and a simplified approach enabled by its global operational capabilities.
This document provides a disclaimer and agenda for a webinar on embedded insurance. The disclaimer states that the views expressed are those of the individual participants and not necessarily the event organizers. The agenda then outlines the following: an opening remarks section, two presentations on embedded insurance and ecosystems, a panel discussion, and closing. It also provides instructions for participating in the webinar through Q&A, polls, and accessing presentation materials after the event.
AIA has invested $1 billion in technology, digital, and analytics transformation. In Indonesia, AIA launched ANYA, an interactive WhatsApp platform that allows customers to access information, submit service requests, and speak to virtual or live agents. ANYA has improved customer experience and engagement, reduced calls to the contact center, and increased digital service requests, contributing to AIA Indonesia achieving the #1 customer NPS ranking in the country. AIA plans to integrate ANYA further and expand it to other markets.
Xplore with Ally is a financial planning tool launched by AIA Singapore to help customers better understand and plan their finances through life's different stages in a simple and engaging way. The tool allows customers to complete a short questionnaire on their goals and needs. It then provides a personalized financial health score and gap analysis to help customers make informed financial decisions. Since launching, Xplore with Ally has generated nearly 1,000 leads for AIA agents in under two months. Both agents and customers have provided positive feedback on the tool for remote prospecting and engaging clients.
Through its TDA (technology, digital and analytics) program, AIA is transforming itself into a customer-centric, digitally enabled insurer by 2023. TDA focuses on world-class technology, digital experiences, and analytics across AIA's businesses. AIA is developing a "super app" lifestyle platform with integrated services starting in Thailand, and plans expansions to other markets in 2022. AIA is also partnering with digital platforms, banks, and technology companies to expand its reach and offerings through digital channels.
1. Kin uses proprietary technology and data sources to more accurately underwrite and price risk, allowing it to insure homes in difficult markets that other insurers avoid.
2. Kin's digital platform generates millions of data points to better understand risk, avoiding the problem of relying on self-reported data from users or agents.
3. During hurricanes like Ida, Kin leverages its data and technology to efficiently triage catastrophic claims and keep customers prepared, in contrast to traditional insurers with outdated systems.
The document describes ZA Tech, an insurtech company that provides SaaS solutions to insurers across Asia and Europe. It has over 800 employees focused on R&D and delivery and has issued over 250 million policies annually. ZA Tech's core offering, called Graphene, is a full-stack, digital-first insurance platform that supports the entire insurance value chain and can be customized to meet different business needs.
WeeCompany provides a 100% digital health ecosystem that integrates insurers, healthcare providers, and patients. It offers various software platforms and a mobile app to enable services like telehealth, appointments, electronic health records, payments, and care management. The platform aims to improve efficiency, customer satisfaction, and business growth for insurance companies through features like automated approvals, unified medical records, and analytics. It represents a new digital model for the healthcare and insurance industries.
Health Experience: The difference between loyalty & leavingaccenture
This document discusses factors that influence consumer loyalty and engagement in healthcare. It finds:
- Ease of navigation is the top reason people switch providers, while experience factors are the main reason for switching payers.
- Younger generations switch providers more and value experience over cost. They will be important future decision-makers.
- People expect access to convenient services through personalized journeys and digital tools that match their needs.
- Those who find providers/payers easy to work with, are highly digital engaged, and trust their organizations are most loyal.
- To drive loyalty, organizations must focus on access, ease of doing business, digital engagement, and building trust.
Gretel is a digital platform that aims to solve the problems of lost and dormant customer accounts in the financial services industry. It does this by automating, standardizing, and centralizing the customer reconnection process across sectors like banking, investments, pensions, insurance, and others. This transforms a process that traditionally takes months into one that takes just minutes. Gretel creates a single, digital journey for consumers to search for lost accounts and assets across different financial institutions valued at over £50 billion in the UK alone. It has already matched over £2 million to users within its first few months.
The document provides guidance on creating an effective startup pitch deck for presenting to angels and venture capitalists (VCs). It outlines the key components to include in a pitch deck, such as the problem/solution, team, traction, financial projections, and ask. Additional slides cover the market opportunity, competition, business model, and exit strategy. The document emphasizes telling a clear story, demonstrating product-market fit, and focusing on the most pressing customer needs or problems.
APAC's Digital Insurance Transformers: Illuminating the Way ForwardCognizant
Our research shows that insurers throughout the extremely diverse APAC region are placing their bets on digital transformation strategies to enhance customer experience and optimize operations. We take a deep-dive look into the particulars of what is currently happening and what lies ahead for the Asia-Pacific insurance industry's digital evolution.
The digital-insurer-innovation-award-application-deck-for-ntuc-incomeThe Digital Insurer
NTUC Income is transforming into a digital leader in the insurance industry. It has established a Digital Transformation Office (DTO) to drive innovation through three prongs - developing internal capabilities, forming strategic partnerships, and connecting with the global startup ecosystem. The DTO launches new digital insurance products using agile teams and partners with companies like ZhongAn to deliver innovative products tailored for customers' modern lifestyles. Income also runs an insurtech accelerator called Future Starter and talent development initiatives to nurture young talents and generate new ideas.
A combination of factors − the pandemic, catastrophic weather events, evolving policyholder expectations, and insurers’ drive for operational efficiency and future relevance − are sparking P&C industry changes.
In a post-COVID, new-normal environment, the most strategic insurers are building resilient, crisis-proof enterprises poised to take advantage of emerging and future business opportunities. They are leveraging advanced data analytics and novel technologies to assure agility and achieve positive revenue and customer satisfaction outcomes. Competitive advantage will hinge on accelerated digitalization and faster go-to-market. Therefore, win-win partnerships and embedded services with InsurTechs and other ecosystem players are critical.
Read Capgemini’s Top P&C Insurance Trends 2022 for a glimpse at the tactical and strategic initiatives carriers are undertaking to boost customer-centricity, product agility, intelligent processes, and an open ecosystem to ensure profitable growth and future-readiness.
Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance Company - Insurer Innovation Award 2023The Digital Insurer
Humanoid is an AI-based voice bot that was implemented by The Digital Insurer to automate the process of scheduling appointments with customers. By using Humanoid, the company was able to contact more customers at lower costs, improve customer experience, increase appointment booking rates, and gain more cross-sell and upsell opportunities. A pilot with 1,300 customers achieved an appointment booking rate of 25% and helped identify areas for improvement. Humanoid utilizes advanced natural language processing and understanding capabilities to understand customer queries, switch between Hindi and English, capture appointment details in real-time, and provide a human-like conversational experience.
The document discusses MyPOS, an integrated sales tool for AIA Sri Lanka designed using cloud technologies. Key points:
- MyPOS provides agents a single app for underwriting, analytics, dashboards, and financial needs analysis to enable a 100% digital customer journey.
- Metrics show MyPOS has helped achieve targets for straight through processing (STP) and digital submissions.
- MyPOS supports organizational transformation by integrating departments and prioritizing a simple, user-friendly interface.
- Success stories highlight benefits like faster processing, reduced errors, increased mobile access, and supporting female agents.
Bolttech is a leading insurtech exchange and digital native provider of insurance and device protection products. It operates across 14 markets with over 7.7 million customers and 1,400 employees. Bolttech offers an insurtech exchange platform that enables partners to connect customers with digital insurance via both SaaS and digital brokerage. In 2020, the exchange platform wrote over 4 million policies and had $4.6 billion in annualized premiums in-force. Bolttech also offers its own digital insurance and device protection products directly to customers.
FWD is using AI across its business to modernize its data architecture and provide intelligent customer experiences. It has developed several AI models including an AI claims processing engine that can approve claims quicker and more accurately, an AI next best offer model that improves upsell/cross-sell conversion rates, and AI lapse prevention models that predict lapses and target customers for retention programs. The company has also implemented successful AI-powered winback campaigns in Thailand and the Philippines that identify former customers most likely to reinstate policies and convert them at higher rates.
- Bolttech partnered with dtac, one of Thailand's largest telcos, to launch dSurance, an embedded insurance platform using Bolttech's technology.
- dSurance allows dtac customers to browse and purchase insurance products directly from dtac's platform, with seamless payment integration.
- The platform launched in under two months and now offers 10 products from 8 carriers, seeing promising early conversion rates for dtac to expand into insurance.
1) ZA Tech provides SaaS solutions that have been battle-tested at scale across borders, business lines, and operating models to support insurers and intermediaries.
2) Their Fusion SaaS platform is a scalable platform that can accelerate insurance go-to-market by providing flexible product configuration, dynamic pricing, and strong ecosystem partner integration capabilities.
3) Case studies demonstrate how Fusion has supported innovative insurance programs at scale for clients like Grab, Klook, and Yahoo, with millions of policies issued and rapid expansion into new markets.
AIA Thailand (ALive, powered by AIA) - Insurer Innovation Award 2022The Digital Insurer
The document describes AIA's ALive ecosystem which serves young families by offering multiple health and wellness offerings through an integrated app. It has seen success with over 500k users since its February 2021 launch. The ecosystem provides community forums, development trackers, wellness content, telemedicine and engages users through chat groups. Rapid iterations have enhanced features, grown content and improved user targeting. Partnerships with other companies have also augmented offerings. The ALive platform has thus created a successful playbook for ecosystems in Asia's life and health insurance industry.
FWD is pursuing a cloud-first strategy to simplify its technology estate and gain competitive advantages like increased agility, scalability, and resilience. Key goals include achieving 100% cloud adoption and app rationalization by 2023. In 2022, FWD achieved 94% cloud adoption and 90% app rationalization across markets. Moving forward, priorities are adopting cloud native patterns and cloud automation techniques to further optimize efficiency and innovation. A Cloud Center of Excellence is coordinating the cloud migration journey following a defined roadmap.
Cover Genius provides embedded insurance through partnerships with large digital companies. It offers regulated insurance policies in over 60 countries and 50 US states. Its API bundles insurance policies dynamically based on location, currency, and language for any product sale worldwide. Cover Genius makes 5,000 claims payments per month in over 90 currencies through its XClaim platform, which allows for instant payments and 24/7 claims assessment in 40+ languages. It partnered with Descartes to reduce claim processing times for Descartes' ShipRush customers from 20 days to 24 hours through automation and a simplified approach enabled by its global operational capabilities.
This document provides a disclaimer and agenda for a webinar on embedded insurance. The disclaimer states that the views expressed are those of the individual participants and not necessarily the event organizers. The agenda then outlines the following: an opening remarks section, two presentations on embedded insurance and ecosystems, a panel discussion, and closing. It also provides instructions for participating in the webinar through Q&A, polls, and accessing presentation materials after the event.
AIA has invested $1 billion in technology, digital, and analytics transformation. In Indonesia, AIA launched ANYA, an interactive WhatsApp platform that allows customers to access information, submit service requests, and speak to virtual or live agents. ANYA has improved customer experience and engagement, reduced calls to the contact center, and increased digital service requests, contributing to AIA Indonesia achieving the #1 customer NPS ranking in the country. AIA plans to integrate ANYA further and expand it to other markets.
Xplore with Ally is a financial planning tool launched by AIA Singapore to help customers better understand and plan their finances through life's different stages in a simple and engaging way. The tool allows customers to complete a short questionnaire on their goals and needs. It then provides a personalized financial health score and gap analysis to help customers make informed financial decisions. Since launching, Xplore with Ally has generated nearly 1,000 leads for AIA agents in under two months. Both agents and customers have provided positive feedback on the tool for remote prospecting and engaging clients.
Through its TDA (technology, digital and analytics) program, AIA is transforming itself into a customer-centric, digitally enabled insurer by 2023. TDA focuses on world-class technology, digital experiences, and analytics across AIA's businesses. AIA is developing a "super app" lifestyle platform with integrated services starting in Thailand, and plans expansions to other markets in 2022. AIA is also partnering with digital platforms, banks, and technology companies to expand its reach and offerings through digital channels.
1. Kin uses proprietary technology and data sources to more accurately underwrite and price risk, allowing it to insure homes in difficult markets that other insurers avoid.
2. Kin's digital platform generates millions of data points to better understand risk, avoiding the problem of relying on self-reported data from users or agents.
3. During hurricanes like Ida, Kin leverages its data and technology to efficiently triage catastrophic claims and keep customers prepared, in contrast to traditional insurers with outdated systems.
The document describes ZA Tech, an insurtech company that provides SaaS solutions to insurers across Asia and Europe. It has over 800 employees focused on R&D and delivery and has issued over 250 million policies annually. ZA Tech's core offering, called Graphene, is a full-stack, digital-first insurance platform that supports the entire insurance value chain and can be customized to meet different business needs.
WeeCompany provides a 100% digital health ecosystem that integrates insurers, healthcare providers, and patients. It offers various software platforms and a mobile app to enable services like telehealth, appointments, electronic health records, payments, and care management. The platform aims to improve efficiency, customer satisfaction, and business growth for insurance companies through features like automated approvals, unified medical records, and analytics. It represents a new digital model for the healthcare and insurance industries.
Health Experience: The difference between loyalty & leavingaccenture
This document discusses factors that influence consumer loyalty and engagement in healthcare. It finds:
- Ease of navigation is the top reason people switch providers, while experience factors are the main reason for switching payers.
- Younger generations switch providers more and value experience over cost. They will be important future decision-makers.
- People expect access to convenient services through personalized journeys and digital tools that match their needs.
- Those who find providers/payers easy to work with, are highly digital engaged, and trust their organizations are most loyal.
- To drive loyalty, organizations must focus on access, ease of doing business, digital engagement, and building trust.
Gretel is a digital platform that aims to solve the problems of lost and dormant customer accounts in the financial services industry. It does this by automating, standardizing, and centralizing the customer reconnection process across sectors like banking, investments, pensions, insurance, and others. This transforms a process that traditionally takes months into one that takes just minutes. Gretel creates a single, digital journey for consumers to search for lost accounts and assets across different financial institutions valued at over £50 billion in the UK alone. It has already matched over £2 million to users within its first few months.
The document provides guidance on creating an effective startup pitch deck for presenting to angels and venture capitalists (VCs). It outlines the key components to include in a pitch deck, such as the problem/solution, team, traction, financial projections, and ask. Additional slides cover the market opportunity, competition, business model, and exit strategy. The document emphasizes telling a clear story, demonstrating product-market fit, and focusing on the most pressing customer needs or problems.
APAC's Digital Insurance Transformers: Illuminating the Way ForwardCognizant
Our research shows that insurers throughout the extremely diverse APAC region are placing their bets on digital transformation strategies to enhance customer experience and optimize operations. We take a deep-dive look into the particulars of what is currently happening and what lies ahead for the Asia-Pacific insurance industry's digital evolution.
The digital-insurer-innovation-award-application-deck-for-ntuc-incomeThe Digital Insurer
NTUC Income is transforming into a digital leader in the insurance industry. It has established a Digital Transformation Office (DTO) to drive innovation through three prongs - developing internal capabilities, forming strategic partnerships, and connecting with the global startup ecosystem. The DTO launches new digital insurance products using agile teams and partners with companies like ZhongAn to deliver innovative products tailored for customers' modern lifestyles. Income also runs an insurtech accelerator called Future Starter and talent development initiatives to nurture young talents and generate new ideas.
Navigating the Digital Age: What senior leaders worldwide have learned from p...Cognizant
In this issue of Cognizanti,we continue our exploration of digital through the eyes of our clients, who are pursuing digital to advance their market leadership, both regionally and globally.
The document discusses opportunities in the trillion dollar global insurance market as new digital users and technologies emerge. It introduces Coverplus, an end-to-end solution that enables insurance providers to develop and distribute embedded insurance products digitally to meet rising customer expectations. The goal of Coverplus is to close the large insurance protection gap in Southeast Asia by promoting innovative embedded insurance solutions that make coverage more accessible and relevant.
The
insurance landscape has evolved far beyond what it used to be One major change relates to the way
customers find and purchase coverage Today’s insurance buyers demand a technology inspired
experience that can be done almost entirely virtually, and it’s reshaping the entire insurance industry
Changes
in customer behavior are causing a fundamental shift in the insurance distribution model
Consumers are embracing digital channels, and their experiences with leading tech companies have
also raised their expectations when buying insurance both online and offline
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seamless, consistent “multi-access” experience across all touchpoints is now the standard that all
companies must strive to meet The bar is also being raised by insurtechs.
Etude PwC "Insurance 2020" : dommage et digital (2014)PwC France
http://bit.ly/AssuranceEnLigne
Pour les compagnies d’assurance, multiplier les échanges numériques avec les clients est un élément essentiel pour les fidéliser et se différencier des concurrents. C’est ce que révèle le rapport de PwC "Insurance 2020: The digital prize – Taking customer connection to a new level". Le cabinet d’audit et de conseil a interrogé plus de 9 000 consommateurs dans le monde, dont 500 français.
The 10 Best End-to-End Insurance Software Solution Providers.pdfInsightsSuccess4
Aggne Global is an insurtech company focused on empowering insurance carriers through innovative technology solutions. Founded by CEO Asha Kalidindi, Aggne aims to transform how carriers interact with technology by developing cutting-edge digital tools. Aggne provides full-service solutions, including proprietary products that streamline implementations and upgrades. Kalidindi was inspired to start Aggne after observing inefficiencies in traditional platform conversions. Aggne's vision is for carriers to embrace technology's power to write business and manage clients more efficiently. The company utilizes a team of experienced experts and devotes resources to exploring emerging data sources and applications.
How Life & Annuity Companies Can Embrace Modern Platforms to Boost Direct-to-...Cognizant
Life and annuity (L&A) insurers seeking to enhance their direct-to-consumer reach should first simplify operations using modern, hosted, rules-based platforms, and deploy the panoply of digital tools and services and work with insurtechs when suitable.
Single View of Customer for Insurance Company | CandelaLabsGAVarun
The Single View Of Customer (SVOC) is a consolidated view, of all internal and external information available to an insurer, mapped on to a single interface.
https://www.candelalabs.io/single-view-of-customer/
Insurers face significant disruption from digital technologies and need to accelerate their digital transformations. They must embrace an omnichannel approach to provide seamless customer experiences across online and offline channels. Insurers also need to reshape core operations and underwriting through advanced analytics, improved data usage, and digital innovations like telematics. To succeed, insurers must upgrade legacy IT systems, rethink their business models, and defend their markets by focusing on efficiency, data, and customer engagement through digital solutions. The pace of digital change requires insurers to proceed strategically in phases to integrate digital and physical operations.
Most emerging market consumers face insurable risks like loss of income, agricultural risks, sickness, and property damage, yet many do not use insurance as a coping mechanism due to lack of access and trust in traditional insurance products. Inclusivity Solutions is an African insurtech company that aims to close this protection gap by developing innovative digital and embedded insurance solutions that make insurance more accessible, affordable, and relevant for emerging market consumers. Their platform allows partners to offer simple and appropriately priced insurance products directly to consumers through digital channels integrated within the partners' existing services and ecosystems. Inclusivity Solutions has already helped over 1 million African customers obtain insurance coverage embedded in services like mobile payments, remittances, and loans.
Despite having been one of the first industries to use data processing on a large scale, insurers have acquired a reputation of lagging technologically over the past decades. However, recent innovations around Big Data and analytics allow insurers to reassert themselves as leaders.
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Omni-channel in insurance
1. Omni-channel
in insurance
Successfully turning digital
leads into high value sales
July 2023
By Wei Chuan Lim, Srihari Chakrarajan, Tengiz Ambardnishvili,
Peter Cho, Andy Lees, Chee Seng Quah, Christoph Krieg, Young Yang, Ian Lee
2. Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in
business and society to tackle their most important
challenges and capture their greatest opportunities.
BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it
was founded in 1963.Today,we work closely with
clients to embrace a transformational approach
aimed at benefiting all stakeholders—empowering
organizations to grow,build sustainable competitive
advantage,and drive positive societal impact.
Our diverse,global teams bring deep industry and
functional expertise and a range of perspectives
that question the status quo and spark change.
BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge
management consulting,technology and design,
and corporate and digital ventures.We work in a
uniquely collaborative model across the firm and
throughout all levels of the client organization,
fueled by the goal of helping our clients thrive and
enabling them to make the world a better place.
Income Insurance Limited (Income Insurance) is
one of the leading composite insurers in Singapore,
offering life,health and general insurance.
Established in Singapore to plug a social need for
insurance in 1970,Income Insurance continues to
put people first by serving the protection,savings
and investment needs of individuals,families
and businesses today.Its lifestyle-centric and
data-driven approach to insurance and financial
planning puts the company at the forefront of
innovative solutions that empowers the people it
serves with better financial well-being.
Additionally,Income Insurance is committed to
being a responsible business that champions the
environment and builds stronger communities by
supporting financial inclusion,education for youth-
in-need and seniors’ well-being
BCG X is the tech build & design unit of BCG.
Turbocharging BCG’s deep industry and
functional expertise, BCG X brings together
advanced tech knowledge and ambitious
entrepreneurship to help organizations
enable innovation at scale. With nearly 3,000
technologists, scientists, programmers, engineers,
and human-centered designers located across
80+ cities, BCG X builds and designs platforms
and software to address the world’s most
important challenges and opportunities. Teaming
across our practices, and in close collaboration
with our clients, our end-to-end global team
unlocks new possibilities. Together we’re creating
the bold and disruptive products, services, and
businesses of tomorrow.
ZA Tech is a leading insurance technology
provider headquartered in Singapore and
operating across APAC and EMEA. ZA Tech
is the premier digital transformation partner
of the insurance industry through its no-/low-
code SaaS insurance core and distribution
systems, as well as customer data platform
(CDP) and MarTech solutions. ZA Tech partners
with many of the leading global and regional
insurers and digital ecosystem platforms. These
partners issue several hundred millions of
policies on ZA Tech’s systems across business
models – ranging from innovative embedded
micro-insurance to traditional life and non-life
insurance products.
3. A BRIEF INTRODUCTION
There’s no doubt about it: we live in a digital age.
And when billions of customers – whether existing
customers, or potential ones – are interacting with
digital ecosystem platforms every day, it is only
logical that insurers get excited at the opportuni-
ties the digital age presents – rich, useable data
from an ever-expanding customer pool.
But even though customer preferences lean toward
a digital-first experience, there is always a need for
that human touch – especially when it comes to
life insurance. Complex life insurance products
with significant, long-term implications work well in
an omni-channel model, where online journeys are
seamlessly combined with personal, tailored sup-
port from human advisors.
The concept sounds easy and is not new. But the
reality is that most insurers have struggled to deliver
on omni-channel, despite large investments into
related strategies, ecosystem partnerships, and tech-
nology.
This is where we come in.
Income Insurance, Boston Consulting Group (BCG),
and ZA Tech jointly designed and implemented a
cutting-edge omni-channel operating model. Since
its launch in 2021, our integrated omni-channel
sales journeys have outperformed typical lead-to-
sales conversions observed in the market by a factor
of 3-5x.
This is our story.
This whitepaper explores our practical experience in
unlocking the potential in omni-channel sales.
• Key principles behind a successful omni-channel
proposition
• Essential features that make up a seamless
customer journey
• Practical recommendations on building it
• Major challenges insurers should be aware of –
and proactively tackle
It doesn’t matter where you are.
This whitepaper focuses on omni-channel sales
with digital ecosystem platforms, and draws on
experiences in Southeast Asia – but our learnings
and recommendations can (and should) be applied
to other regions, lead channels (e.g. digital advertis-
ing) and business models (e.g. bancassurance).
Contents
The untapped potential of digital leads in life insurance
The key principles of a successful omni-channel journey
The building blocks of a seamless, high-output omni-channel
proposition
Deep-dive I – How can GenAI support omni-channel sales
Building an omni-channel journey as an insurer
Deep-dive II – The omni-channel opportunity with digital banks
The major challenges faced by insurers
1
3
5
8
9
11
12
4. BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP X INCOME X ZA TECH 1
The untapped potential of digital leads in life insurance
The facts – the customers are digital-first
The major digital ecosystem platforms in Southeast Asia
have over two billion1
monthly active users across a popu-
lation of half a billion smartphone users2
. This essentially
provides insurers with an average of four digital access
points per prospect through the largest platforms alone.
All major insurers in the region, including Income Insur-
ance, are investing in partnerships with digital platforms,
and are leveraging digital marketing to drive lead genera-
tion and sales.
What does this mean for insurance?
Customers’ digital affinity is reflected in how they want to
interact with insurance. It turns out that their preferences
change and evolve throughout their journey, with around
50% being digital-first when they begin their research. As
they continue, and the decisions around products become
more important, there is a much higher shift toward
human assistance. Even though there is no one-size-fits-
all journey, 65-70% of customers make at least one chan-
nel switch, jumping from digital to human assistance or
vice versa, especially towards closing. In fact, only one in
eight people prefer an end-to-end, fully digital experience
(see Exhibit 1).
That shift toward the human touch grows stronger with
life insurance. Securing your and your family’s financial
future is a big decision - accompanied by a complex sales
journey, medical and financial underwriting, and a signifi-
cant price tag.
Exhibit 1 | Omni-channel preference along the insurance customer journey
Source: BCG Distribution-X Global Customer Insight Study 2022
Questions: Suppose you want to take out a new insurance and obtain information in advance. Which of the following channels would you most likely use to obtain
information (such as Coverage, etc.)?; Which channels would you then use to obtain price information and offers?; If the offer is right, which channels would be most
suitable for taking out insurance?
1
Source: App Annie data on monthly active users of major e-commerce platforms, travel platforms, social media platforms, superapps and e-wallets in Q1 2023 across
key ASEAN countries, BCG analysis
2
Source: Statista, BCG analysis
5. BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP X INCOME X ZA TECH 2
Insurers are catching on – but slowly
We have seen a strong trend toward embedding general
insurance products, such as travel insurance, into those
partner ecosystems. But life insurance is different, with
customers encountering embedded short-term, pure
protection products at most. In either case, the value pool
of purely embedded insurance is still small. The true
value of ecosystem partnerships lies in the ability to
generate leads and convert them to long-term life and
investment products – at scale, and low cost.
The discussions and investments around omni-channel
models have been happening for the past decade – but
so far, very few have managed to crack the entire integrat-
ed process. It is not surprising either – the journey from
lead acquisition, to advisor allocation, to warming, and
finally conversion is hindered by a variety of obstacles.
Siloed organizational processes, complex products, lack
of incentives and change management, outdated technol-
ogy, and sparse data all contribute to a tough problem to
solve.
A success story – proven by its results
This paper provides a practitioner guide and blueprint for
a successful omni-channel sales model, with our focus
being on life insurance. We have successfully worked on
digital lead acquisition on partner platforms with subse-
quent pivot to offline advisory channels. The insights are
based on the experience of Income Insurance supported
by BCG and ZA Tech, successfully building an omni-chan-
nel platform and operating model in Singapore. The first
launch of the new platform as minimal viable product
(MVP) took place late in 2021, and achieved clear results
in 2022:
• 19,000 qualified3
leads generated via pilots with digi-
tal ecosystems in Singapore
• 10% lead-to-sale conversion, a 300 to 400% uplift
• 5% incremental annualized premium generated
• 62% of leads being new or reactivated customers
– 2-3x better than BAU4
Income Insurance and BCG came together with a com-
mon vision of the digital ecosystem and omni-channel
potential. BCG, supported by experts from BCG X, de-
signed the end-to-end journeys and requirements for the
platform. ZA Tech built the omni-channel platform, inte-
grating with peripheral systems to create a seamless
experience. Empowered cross-functional teams from all
three organizations, spanning marketing and partner-
ships, experience design, technology build, distribution,
and even compliance worked in agile “pods” to iteratively
deliver and improve the MVP, allowing Income Insurance
users to ultimately own the platform.
3
Submitted full lead form and/or booked an appointment with an advisor
4
Business-as-usual in traditional channels – 20-30% of leads are new or returning customers (previous customers of Income Insurance without any active policy). In-
come already serves about 1.7 million customers in Singapore, which total population is just 5.6 million people
6. BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP X INCOME X ZA TECH 3
It might go without saying – but getting key aspects
right is the first step in shaping a successful, integrated
omni-channel sales operating model.
These are the five essential principles insurers should
start with to set up and scale life insurance omni-chan-
nel sales:
1. Seamless journeys without process repeats across any
chosen channel
2. Continuity of a serving “bionic” advisor
3. High-quality, pre-nurtured leads
4. Attractive hook products and propositions
5. Plug-and-play integration in partner platforms
1. Seamless journey with no process repeats across
any chosen channel
Research shows a wide variety of preferences in the way
customers interact across various stages of the journey:
self-service, online chats, (video) calls, and in-person meet-
ings. Since preferences are fluid, a seamless continuity
across channels and stages is paramount – data and con-
text need to be carried over in real-time, ensuring that
there is a seamless experience, without any process re-
peats.
A prospect’s digital interactions should be shared with an
advisor as part of the lead profile, giving full context to
subsequent interactions. Some customers prefer an imme-
diate or ad hoc connect, while others prefer to book far in
advance. One customer might make an immediate deci-
sion, while another may need to take time to consider and
discuss with their spouse or family.
The key principles of a successful omni-channel journey
Providing prospective customers with flexibility – on their
schedule,and their channel – is key to maximising conversions.
7. BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP X INCOME X ZA TECH 4
2. Continuity of a serving “bionic” advisor
An ideal interaction would see a customer being assigned
to an advisor, being paired up based on customer prefer-
ences and advisor’s skillsets. End-to-end, trusted advi-
sor-customer relationships happen in wealth management,
and they should happen in insurance too. Insurers should
look at bringing every advisor onto the entire journey, and
onto every channel. Insurance advisors need to become
“bionic” – empowered and trained with the right set of
digital engagement tools, coaching on digital relationship
management, and incentivized to take better care of their
assigned leads.
3. High-quality, pre-nurtured leads
Prospective clients typically are not on a digital ecosystem
platform looking for insurance – they are normally scroll-
ing or shopping when they are presented with insurance
products. It might take more than one interaction for a
prospect to be considered nurtured. Gently funnelling
prospects toward making a decision on insurance requires
more than a single digital post. Engaging them with more
personalized media and campaigns, or directing them to
landing pages all make it easier to nurture leads when
insurers have a comprehensive, consistent, personalized,
multi-channel approach.
4. Attractive hook products and propositions
Few prospects – especially younger ones with little experi-
ence with insurance – jump from their first digital encoun-
ter with insurance, to spending thousands of dollars on a
life insurance product. Entry-level hook products have
proven to be an effective way of getting more prospects
further along the journey. SNACK by Income is a case in
point. SNACK is a lifestyle-embedded, digital insurance
ecosystem that allows users to accumulate free, stackable
insurance5
when they transact with Income Insurance’s
ecosystem partners. After reaching the maximum allowed
sum assured on the SNACK app, prospects are smoothly
redirected to the advisor-led, online-to-offline part of In-
come Insurance’s omni-channel strategy. The takeaway
here? Affordable or freemium propositions are a good first
step to lowering an entry barrier to an initial purchase.
5. Plug-and-play integration in partner platforms
Insurance is hardly ever a digital platform’s top priority.
Many other products/services are already competing for
the customers’ attention, and there is always a long back-
log of platform enhancements.
Overcoming this and becoming a partner of choice for
ecosystem platforms means delivering on the below key
elements:
• Clear user benefits: Value-add to the platform’s
customers with a competitive and complementary
product offering (for example, products for an un-
der-addressed current segment)
• Seamless customer experience: Meeting or exceed-
ing the platform’s UX standards, avoiding the risk of
negatively impacting users’ perception of the platform
• Attractive economics: Either through direct moneti-
zation via marketing fees or second order effects deliv-
ered to the platform (such as improved customer
engagement)
• “Zero-effort” integration: Plug-and-play integration
into the platform’s systems, to prevent a diversion of
development resources from the backlog of core en-
hancements
These needs are particularly relevant for an emerging
partner category – the digital banks. In Deep-Dive II on
page 11 of this document, we outlined an innovative ap-
proach of a partnership between a digital bank and tradi-
tional insurer.
One single point of contact makes a big difference in
customer-insurer relationships.
Hook products work both for lead acquisition and
warming leads via a gentle, interactive introduction to
insurance.
It is not just about repeating your message – it is about
repeating it in a customer-relevant way until it sticks.
5
Pure protection products across three product lines (term, critical illness and personal accident) and investment-linked credits
8. BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP X INCOME X ZA TECH 5
The building blocks of a seamless, high-output
omni-channel proposition
Many channels = many moving parts. Building an omni-
channel platforms means mapping out the entire journey and
developing dozens of features for every step. In Exhibit 2, we
have outlined important capabilities of an omni-channel
platform – building on the experience with Income Insurance.
The most important capabilities are further explained below.
Step 1: Nurturing matching
• Insurance offers / hooks online in partner apps:
Upfront awareness and engagement with prospects relies
on their easy access to insurers. A reusable, configurable
frontend component (the “Partner Interface”) is an
invaluable tool here. Insurers should invest in building a
Partner Interface that can be quickly and tightly integrat-
ed into any new channel, with minimal development for
the partner platform. Insurers can create a branded
interface, with content relevant to their prospects, and
API integration for key customer data fields, to tailor
content and prevent users from having to manually enter
their information.
• MarTech engine for lead nurturing: Digital platforms
have many ways to identify their users and their deci-
sions, and tapping into their technology and insights
can prove invaluable to insurers. A quick-to-deploy lead
generation engine can empower a partner to identify
high-potential leads based on the platform’s own data
triggers, and drive digital nurturing within the partner
ecosystem. For insurers, this type of highly accurate
segmentation and real-time data can ensure that they
are getting the right product to the right person, at the
right ‘life-moments’. Different triggers and nurturing
mechanics exist for this, including different channels,
with targeted and time-based messaging and creatives.
• Appointment booking: This tool is part of the inte-
grated flow within the Partner Interface, and allows
customers to schedule a meeting with an advisor. It
gives customers the benefit of choice; if they are al-
ready a customer, they can choose an existing advisor,
or opt for a new one. It also creates a personalized
experience – collecting additional customer info for
advisors to know the customer better ahead of the first
chat. It could include something as simple as an intro-
ductory video of the advisor.
Exhibit 2 | Key features of a seamless high-output omni-channel journey
Source: BCG analysis
A note on terminology
Different organizations use different terminology for the key steps in our omni-channel journey. In the follow-
ing, we will use the below definitions:
• Nurturing - fostering a prospect’s interest in insurance before they become a lead. This may include prospects
leaving contact details with advisors.
• Warming - building a lead’s awareness of insurance after they’ve expressed intent to make an appointment, or
have already signed up for a meeting.
9. BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP X INCOME X ZA TECH 6
• Self-discovery engagement tools: These are a set
of digital tools deployed within the partner’s or insur-
er’s website or app, aimed at nurturing a prospects’
interest to insurance. These may include personali-
ty-based protection and savings gap calculators, or
interactive “people like you” tools – which provide
customers with a profile facing similar circumstances
to their own (see Exhibit 3). Usually, once these quiz-
zes have been completed, an appointment with an
advisor is suggested.
• Smart matching: Using the data collected via the
various channels available, this engine scores and
matches prospects to advisors based on their charac-
teristics, needs and interests, as well as the advisor’s
skillset and availability. It is linked to an “Advisor
Portal”, providing advisors with a detailed introduction
to their prospects before the first meeting. Prospects
can create and manage appointments themselves,
and are met with a welcome from an advisor who is
an expert in the insurance products they need.
Step 2: Contacting warming
• Lead insights and digital footprint: Lead insights
from all channels are supplied to the advisor via the
Advisor Portal – linked to a “Customer Data Plat-
form” (CDP). This portal includes lead channel in-
sights, segmentation, digital marketing campaign
responses, potential product intent, previous interac-
tions history, existing policies, and more – all aimed
at empowering the advisor with even more contextual
information for that first meeting. The CDP should
allow for customer data unification across multiple
systems and channels, supporting auto-tagging and
segmentation to distil lead insights.
• Advisor nudges and message services: For each
lead, the insights can be supplemented with com-
munication tips, templates, and next best action
recommendations for advisors to use via integrated
cross-channel communication services (Communi-
cation Platform as a Service, or CPaaS), including
emails, SMS, instant messaging apps, and calling.
• Pre-appointment personalized info-board: Advi-
sors can use this digital tool, integrated into the
Advisor Portal, to create a personalized webpage for
prospects. With a few clicks, advisors can generate
the page and automatically share the link with the
lead (see Exhibit 4). Keeping the lead warm before
the first appointment is critical, as the “dead zone”
between appointment booking and the meeting itself
may spread across multiple days. The info-board can
solve this issue and prepare the client before the
actual meeting – providing financial planning articles
or introducing relevant popular products. It also
shows prospects how committed advisors are. When
potential customers see that effort has gone into
curating content and ensuring they turn up for their
meeting, it levels up their engagement with advisors
and products – making it easier to close a sale.
• Lead reactivation via marketing automation:
Sometimes leads turn cold. There could be many
reasons – perhaps the true interest for insurance was
not there, or the appointment did not work out due to
Exhibit 3 | “People like you” self-discovery engagement tool
Source: Income Insurance
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a scheduling conflict. Luckily, we can continue to engage
our leads via automated, multi-stage marketing strate-
gies, building on auto-tagging, segmentation and scoring
logics. Cold leads (prospects who started the journey but
dropped off) or previously churned customers can be
reactivated using these tools.
Step 3: Meeting Closure
• Customer-centric KYC, needs analysis and con-
versational data capturing tools: Knowing your
customer means knowing how they like to engage
with their insurance, and their advisors. Collabora-
tion tools for customers and advisors can be inte-
grated into the Advisor Portal, allowing advisors to
perform complex presale steps – like needs analysis
– in a more conversational way. Perhaps more im-
portantly, these meetings can happen in a setting
that customers prefer (whether in-person, or re-
motely via co-browsing). Some examples of these
tools include live sketching on a tablet with pre-set
templates, handwritten text recognition for automat-
ed data capture, pre-populated customer data via
CDP integration, or automated retrieval of customer
data from governmental websites.
• Interactive, real-time product quotation tool:
Integrated into the Advisor Portal, this product bene-
fit illustration tool allows an advisor to easily pick
and configure a product for a customer’s needs. Key
features may include automated product and cover-
age recommendations, benefits visualization via
charts and infographics, product comparison tools,
and more.
• Cross-channel application and closing capabili-
ties: A key step is ensuring customers can complete
applications across all channels. Whether this hap-
pens independently after a meeting, or in an online/
offline meeting with an advisor, the captured data
needs to be carried to, and accessible across, every
channel available. This includes supporting docu-
ment provision, signatures, and payments. If possi-
ble, this should be supported by real-time issuing
capabilities.
Insurers often face a common challenge in synchroniz-
ing these features into an integrated journey. Yes, many
insurers have shown success with certain parts of the
journey – but a fully end-to-end success story, with actu-
al customer and advisor adoption, is still rare. Ensuring
that customers and advisors have a seamless journey
means stitching those individual moments together -
the solution logic, the designs, the tech solutions/appli-
cations used, the data pass-through, and so on. In the
next section, we will discuss how to get it right, and
prevent the pitfall of disconnected and/or poorly adopt-
ed omni-channel journeys.
Exhibit 4 | Personalized info-board
Source: Income Insurance
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Deep-dive I – How can GenAI support omni-channel sales?
Generative AI and large-language models (LLMs) can
further help improve the omni-channel experience. In
the medium term, we see these tools not competing
with advisors – but complementing them. Below, we
have outlined select potential use cases:
• Advisor assistance: GenAI can recommend
personalized content, formats, and personalized
messages based on a customer’s profile in the
CDP. Personalized answer options can be provided
to advisors within the Advisor Portal for better,
faster responses at a lower cost. Another use case
would be LLMs summarizing customer appoint-
ments, auto-updating the CDP based on it, and
providing next-best action recommendations.
• Advisor enablement: Advisors often deal with
digital ecosystem leads in a remote setting. GenAI
can help with training advisors to develop sales,
engage with clients, handle pushback and various
other customer interaction techniques, by simulat-
ing human conversations.
• Product personalization: Using data from the
CDP, and updating in real-time based on live con-
versations, GenAI can be used to provide custom-
ized product coverage recommendations. This can
extend far beyond simple premium-coverage per-
mutations for standard products, including person-
alized products on a liability/benefit level. Howev-
er, beyond the implementation, this will also
require an insurance core system supporting high-
ly modular product configurations.
While there are some significant benefits of using
GenAI and LLM in the omni-channel journey, there
are some risks that should be proactively addressed.
These can include AI hallucinations (a confident, but
incorrect response/responses not justified by the
training data), or compliance and ethics issues (e.g.
discrimination because of biases in the training
data). Initially, GenAI and LLM technologies need to
be embedded in a “human in the loop” set-up to
train, calibrate, supervise, and control the algorithms.
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Building an omni-channel journey as an insurer
Omni-channel journeys do not exist in just one domain.
A cohesive and seamless experience that delivers re-
sults relies on three organisational units working to-
gether – technology, marketing, and distribution.
Cross-functional teaming
The foundation of implementing omni-channel sales is an
empowered, incentivized, cross-functional team. A connect-
ed group that synergizes all capabilities required for a
complex digital solution launch is crucial to the success of
these omni-channel journeys. They need to have strong
expertise in areas like Business and Project Leadership,
Product Management, Experience Design, Digital Market-
ing and Partnerships, Data and Analytics, Engineering,
Distribution/Agency and Operations. We have learned that
when members work in silos, or are tied to an individual
department, omni-channel journeys will not go very far.
The solution? An independent program that cuts across
traditional organizations’ boundaries. We also suggest true
transparency – clear business targets and shared KPIs,
such as value of new business (VNB) uplift, conversion
rates or number of new sales, are crucial for collaborative
teaming and incentivization.
Agile, iterative design, build and run approach
Depending on an insurer’s starting point, the existing
tech stack, and the advisors’ openness to change,
transforming to a successful omni-channel model can
take up to three years. To realize the impact faster, we
recommend an interactive test and learn approach
before scaling. For example, an insurer can test part of
a feature in a small-scale trial, allowing for experi-
ments on the feature to continuously optimize out-
comes. Small scale can mean setting up pilots target-
ing different customer segments on 2-3 lead generating
partner platforms. A dedicated set of onboarded advi-
sors – such as 20-30 full-time advisors representing
different segments – could test and calibrate the fea-
tures for different advisors’ needs. Once the solution
and the journey stabilize, the organisation’s focus can
shift to scaling that end-to-end journey. But even
during scaling, an iterative approach is best to achieve
constant innovation and optimization.
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Modern, productized, open architecture technology
Complex legacy systems and outdated processes are
seriously holding insurers back. There is a sense of dread
around even just the thought of replacing these legacy
systems.
We posit that big steps can be taken with omni-channel
sales, without ever touching the existing core systems –
or, at most, with targeted surgical interventions6
. We
require three key components to enable advisor-led,
online-to-offline sales, and a fourth component that
allows full omni-channel sales, including direct-to-cus-
tomer (D2C) (see Exhibit 5).
• Partner Interface: A flexible, configurable, easily
deployable solution, in an ecosystem partner’s web-
site/app. It acts as an insurance landing page, provid-
ing offers, lead forms, appointment bookings, and
chat/video call functionality
• Customer Data Portal (CDP): An open architecture
CDP that collects and unifies customer data and
leads, creates lead insights through auto-tagging and
segmentation, pairs advisors to leads through scoring
and matching, and automates marketing or engage-
ment opportunities to warm (or reactivate) leads
• Advisor Portal: Advisor-facing solution for lead
insights, lead and calendar management, notification
and nudges to warm leads. It includes typical advisor
point-of-sales (POS) functionalities (such as needs
analysis, quotation, application) optimized for live
collaboration with customers
• D2C Frontend: A customer-facing frontend with
end-to-end digital sales capabilities. From quotation
and benefit illustration to payment and issuance,
customers can close insurance deals themselves, or
with assistance from an advisor
We believe insurers should stay away from extensive
custom builds (which can add to technical debt), but not
shy away from the key integrations required to deliver a
seamless experience. Productized SaaS solutions exist for
all these components, ready to be integrated into legacy
core systems. Open architecture principles make this
possible.
Exhibit 5 | Simplified omni-channel sales platform blueprint
Note: Simplified, non-exhaustive view
Source: ZA Tech
6
However, depending on the capabilities of the legacy core system in place, some capabilities may not be achievable or prohibitively expensive to implement without
changing the core system, particularly related to innovative digital hook products (with product logics not supported by the legacy system)
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Deep Dive II – The omni-channel opportunity with digital banks
As more digital banks stake their claim, new opportu-
nities for insurers are created. Digital bank customers
can easily be channelled to highly productive agents
or telesales, with specialist knowledge - instead of
bank relationship managers, where insurance is just
another product. The partnership between ZA Bank
and a global insurer in Hong Kong is a pioneering
example of this kind of bancassurance deal.
One in four adults below 30 years of age banks with
ZA Bank, making ZA Bank the largest digital bank in
Hong Kong. Besides a direct digital model for pure
protection and short-term endowment, ZA Bank estab-
lished an online-to-offline-to-online sales model for
more complex, long-term life products provided by the
insurer – generating over 1,000 new leads with ap-
pointment bookings per month on average.
1. Online nurturing: ZA Bank nurtures customers
at multiple stages within their bank app, creating
awareness and interest in their products. Mini-
games and quests make it a fun, interactive expe-
rience for their customers, leading to discounts
and other offers.
2. Online matching: ZA Bank and the insurer use
an engine that scores and matches advisors and
customers, assigning agents best suited to the
lead based on information provided, linked to the
Advisor Portal. Customers can book and manage
appointments with the insurer’s agents within the
bank app.
3. Offline conversion: Agents and customers inter-
act outside the app (e.g., in-person, by WhatsApp)
to conduct the need analysis and prepare the
quotation. The customers can feed back on the
appointment within the bank app.
4. Online closing: Once the customer has decided
on a quotation, they can confirm the data transfer
within the bank app to auto-populate the applica-
tion form on the agent’s device. Payments for the
premium are smoothly integrated in the bank app
and all policy data is synced back to the app as
soon as the product is issued – empowering cus-
tomers to manage all financial needs in one place.
Exhibit 6 | Omni-channel sales in digital banca
Source: ZA Tech
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The major challenges faced by insurers
If establishing a successful omni-channel sales model
was easy, everyone would have done it. Previously, we
addressed three key factors to successfully deploy and
scale omni-channel journey. Next, we explore three
major hidden obstacles that insurers should keep in
mind as they take their offering across channels.
Economic model
Finding a sustainable costing/incentivization model for
an omni-channel platform is crucial. This model needs to
balance excessive IT and marketing costs, with a charge
on additional new business value generated. Building an
omni-channel platform and creating lead-generation
partnerships often have significant costs, viewed by some
as unconventional – but others have already begun the
process and are creating those partnerships successfully.
Insurers need to see what is working and what is not, and
learn from it.
Change process
Change management is one of the biggest unspoken
obstacles in this space. Adopting an omni-channel jour-
ney means advisors need to be ready for training, and
trusted with using new tech and data tools on a day-to-
day basis. Using these tools – like instantly connecting
leads to advisors, contextual data, or remote engagement
– means that advisors essentially need to relearn the way
they do their job. Some people do not handle change
well, and they need to be supported and empowered with
training, tailored coaching, built-in guides, and more.
Service model for younger customers
The digital generation needs to be attracted and nurtured
in a way that is native to their online experience. This
segment comes with its own obstacles: more options to
choose from, lower brand loyalty, and a rejection of the
old-school salesman. Upfront gamification and relation-
ship-building is a great way to address this, with SNACK by
Income Insurance as a prime example; customers who
transact with Income Insurance’s partner ecosystem re-
ceive complimentary insurance coverage. Surprising, de-
lighting, and engaging at every level is important to attract,
convert, and retain the next generation of customers.
We are here to share our learnings
This was a brief outline of just some of the key features
and aspects leading to the successful implementation of
omni-channel sales journeys. However, each organisation
is unique in their needs, and should carefully consider
what would work for them and their products, based on the
insights provided here. There are many more pieces of this
puzzle that should be individually explored.
If you are interested in discussing more details, or need
any information around implementing an omni-channel
journey in your organisation, we are delighted to help. Get
in touch with any of the authors for a chat around solu-
tions, execution approaches, potential challenges, or any
other questions you may have.
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About the Authors
Chee Seng Quah is a Vice President Head,
Omni-Channel in Income Insurance in Singa-
pore. He has been acting as a General Manager
of Income Insurance’s first corporate venture
team driving omni-channel transformations in
insurance distribution. You may contact him by
email at CheeSeng.Quah@income.com.sg
Andy Lees is a Managing Director and Partner in
the Singapore office of BCG X. He is a core mem-
ber of the Insurance practice, and has extensive
experience in bionic InsurTech, data-driven man-
agement, innovation and digital strategy. You may
contact him by email at
Andy.Lees@bcgdv.com
Peter Cho is a Managing Director and Partner
in the Singapore office of BCG X. He is a Global
People Chair of BCG X, and a core member of
Financial Institutions practice in Southeast-Asia.
Peter has extensive experience in omni-channel
bionic advisory build, and digital transformations.
You may contact him by email at
Peter.Cho@bcgdv.com
Wei Chuan Lim is a Managing Director and
Partner in the Singapore office of BCG. He leads
BCG’s Financial Institutions practice in South-
east-Asia, is a core member of the Insurance
practice, and has extensive experience in omni-
channel bionic advisory build, digital, data
tech transformation across APAC. You may contact
him by email at Lim.WeiChuan@bcg.com
Srihari Chakrarajan is a Managing Director and
Partner in the Singapore office of BCG. He is a
core member of the Insurance practice, and has
extensive experience in digital data transforma-
tion, and digital platforms built. You may contact
him by email at Srihari.Chakrarajan@bcg.com
Tengiz Ambardnishvili is a Project Leader in
the Singapore office of BCG. He is a core member
of the Insurance practice, and has extensive
expertise in venture launch, omni-channel and
bionic platforms, customer journey redesign
digital transformation. You may contact him by
email at Ambardnishvili.Tengiz@bcg.com
Young Yang is the Managing Director for South-
east Asia at ZA Tech and a Director of Asia
Fintech Center based in Singapore. He leads ZA
Tech’s business across ASEAN and has vast
experience in digital and omni-channel insur-
ance innovation. You may contact him by email
at Yang.Yang@zatech.com
Christoph Krieg is the Head of Strategy at ZA
Tech based in Hong Kong. He leads strategy,
strategic partnerships and corporate develop-
ment of ZA Tech’s business across its footprint in
APAC and EMEA. You may contact him by email
at Christoph.Krieg@zatech.com
Ian Lee is the Head of Commercial at ZA Tech
based in Singapore. He oversees business devel-
opment and account management
of ZA Tech’s business with insurers and interme-
diaries across Southeast Asia. You may contact
him by email at Ian.Lee@zatech.com
Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank the following people for their
valued contributions towards this report:
• Peter Tay, Income Insurance, Chief Digital Officer
• Fabian Ng, Income Insurance,
General Manager for Consumer Business
• Vivianna Low, Income Insurance, Chief Retail Officer
• Chen Boon Khing, Income Insurance,
Chief Technology Officer
• Sok Hoon Lau, Income Insurance, Chief Actuary
• Angelo Candreia, BCG, Managing Director and Partner
• Tobias Hofer, BCG, Partner and Associate Director