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To empower protection and financial security by designing innovative digital solutions that deliver extraordinary care

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To empower protection and financial security by designing innovative digital solutions that deliver extraordinary care

Strengths

  • PLATFORM: Robust digital platform serving 16M+ customers
  • BRAND: Strong trusted brand with 96-year legacy in protection
  • INTEGRATION: Seamless omnichannel customer experience strategy
  • DATA: Rich customer data ecosystem across insurance verticals
  • TEAM: Highly specialized product teams with insurance expertise

Weaknesses

  • LEGACY: Technical debt slowing digital transformation velocity
  • METRICS: Insufficient product analytics to measure success
  • INNOVATION: Product innovation cycle lags industry leaders
  • SILOS: Product teams operate in functional isolation
  • MOBILE: Mobile app engagement metrics below industry average

Opportunities

  • PERSONALIZATION: Hyper-personalized insurance products
  • ECOSYSTEM: Expand digital ecosystem with financial partners
  • ANALYTICS: Leverage predictive analytics for risk assessment
  • AUTOMATION: Streamline claims processing with automation
  • EMBEDDED: Develop embedded insurance products for partners

Threats

  • INSURTECHS: Digital-first insurtechs capturing market share
  • EXPECTATIONS: Rising customer expectations for digital service
  • REGULATION: Increasing regulatory complexity in insurtech
  • CYBERSECURITY: Escalating cybersecurity threats to data
  • INFLATION: Economic pressures affecting insurance margins

Key Priorities

  • DIGITAL: Accelerate digital transformation roadmap execution
  • DATA: Enhance data infrastructure for personalization
  • ENGAGEMENT: Improve mobile app experience and user journey
  • ECOSYSTEM: Develop strategic partnerships for product expansion
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To empower protection and financial security by designing innovative digital solutions that deliver extraordinary care

DIGITAL TRANSFORM

Accelerate our digital ecosystem for seamless service

  • ARCHITECTURE: Modernize 3 core legacy systems with API-first architecture by end of Q2
  • AUTOMATION: Increase straight-through processing for claims from 45% to 65% with AI automation
  • EXPERIENCE: Reduce digital customer journey friction points by 40% across top 5 user flows
  • ADOPTION: Increase monthly active digital users from 7.2M to 9M across all platforms
DATA POWER

Harness data for personalized customer experiences

  • PLATFORM: Launch unified customer data platform integrating 100% of touchpoints by June 30
  • INSIGHTS: Deploy predictive analytics models for 3 key insurance lines improving accuracy by 20%
  • PERSONALIZATION: Implement real-time personalization engine reaching 75% of digital customers
  • GOVERNANCE: Establish comprehensive data governance framework with 100% compliance
MOBILE FIRST

Elevate mobile experience to industry leadership

  • ENGAGEMENT: Increase mobile app engagement rate from 32% to 50% with redesigned experience
  • FEATURES: Launch 5 high-value mobile features based on top customer requests by end of Q2
  • RETENTION: Improve 30-day mobile app retention rate from 45% to 68% with enhanced journeys
  • SATISFACTION: Achieve mobile app store rating improvement from 3.7 to 4.5 stars
ECOSYSTEM GROWTH

Expand our digital ecosystem through strategic partners

  • PARTNERSHIPS: Integrate with 3 new strategic platform partners expanding potential reach by 5M
  • API: Launch developer portal with 15 core APIs enabling partner integrations by June
  • EMBEDDED: Develop 2 embedded insurance products for partner distribution channels
  • INNOVATION: Establish innovation lab launching 3 pilot products with external partners
METRICS
  • Digital customer engagement: 70% by end of 2024, 85% by end of 2025
  • Customer satisfaction (digital NPS): 55 → 65
  • Digital sales conversion rate: 12% → 18%
VALUES
  • Care and empathy for customers
  • Digital innovation excellence
  • Data-driven decision making
  • User-centric product design
  • Continuous improvement
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Align the learnings

Nationwide Product Retrospective

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To empower protection and financial security by designing innovative digital solutions that deliver extraordinary care

What Went Well

  • GROWTH: Digital policy sales increased 18% YoY exceeding forecast by 3%
  • RETENTION: Customer retention improved to 89% through digital engagement
  • INNOVATION: Successfully launched SmartRide mobile telematics nationwide
  • EFFICIENCY: Digital claims processing reduced average resolution by 22%
  • PARTNERSHIPS: Strategic API integration with 3 major digital platforms

Not So Well

  • CONVERSION: Mobile app conversion rates 7% below target for new products
  • EXPERIENCE: Customer satisfaction scores for digital claims below target
  • TECHNICAL: Three major outages impacted digital platform availability
  • ADOPTION: SmartHome IoT product adoption 12% below forecast projections
  • INTEGRATION: Delays in integrating newly acquired insurtech capabilities

Learnings

  • ONBOARDING: Simplified digital onboarding increased completion by 23%
  • TESTING: A/B testing on quote flow increased conversion rates by 16%
  • FEEDBACK: Real-time feedback loops accelerated product improvement cycles
  • PERSONALIZATION: Personalized recommendations lifted cross-sell by 14%
  • PLATFORMS: Platform approach reduced development time by 35% on average

Action Items

  • MOBILE: Redesign mobile app experience to improve engagement by Q3 2025
  • DATA: Implement unified customer data platform to enhance personalization
  • ARCHITECTURE: Accelerate legacy system modernization for core products
  • ANALYTICS: Deploy advanced analytics dashboard for product performance
  • INNOVATION: Establish rapid prototyping process for new digital products
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To empower protection and financial security by designing innovative digital solutions that deliver extraordinary care

Strengths

  • FOUNDATION: Established AI Center of Excellence framework
  • INVESTMENTS: Significant investments in data infrastructure
  • TALENT: Growing team of AI specialists and data scientists
  • MODELS: Domain-specific insurance ML models in production
  • INFRASTRUCTURE: Cloud-native architecture supporting AI/ML

Weaknesses

  • INTEGRATION: AI solutions not fully integrated into products
  • ADOPTION: Slow adoption of AI tools by product teams
  • GOVERNANCE: Incomplete AI governance and ethical framework
  • SKILLS: Technical skill gaps in advanced AI implementations
  • EXPERIMENTATION: Limited AI experimentation culture

Opportunities

  • PREVENTION: AI-powered risk prevention tools for customers
  • CLAIMS: Automate 70% of claims processing with AI
  • FRAUD: Advanced fraud detection using deep learning models
  • PRICING: Dynamic insurance pricing using real-time data
  • AGENTS: AI assistants to augment agent productivity

Threats

  • COMPETITION: Tech giants entering insurance with AI advantage
  • REGULATION: Evolving AI regulations affecting implementations
  • PRIVACY: Growing concerns about AI and data privacy
  • BIAS: Algorithmic bias risks in insurance underwriting
  • TRANSPARENCY: Customer skepticism about AI-driven decisions

Key Priorities

  • CLAIMS: Implement end-to-end AI-powered claims experience
  • ASSISTANTS: Develop AI assistants for customers and agents
  • UNDERWRITING: Enhance underwriting accuracy with ML models
  • GOVERNANCE: Establish robust AI ethics and governance