Blueprint Blog

Dazzle your colleagues with your in-depth strategic planning (and safeguard your credibility)

Mon, 30 May 2016 15:26:00 GMT

Preparing and presenting detailed strategic plans is a time-consuming and challenging activity. Given these challenges, executives often end up presenting a high-level view of their strategies.

Social Service by Standardizing Insurance Operations

Sat, 19 Mar 2016 06:44:00 GMT

Are you actively saving costs for your company by using industry-standard operations? You may not realize it, but by doing so, you may be doing social service, of a sort.

Successful Transformation - Difference between mediocre and successful insurance organizations

Sun, 03 Jan 2016 09:59:00 GMT

If you were transforming a large building, you have access to its blueprint to avoid negative consequences and utilize the strengths of its structure. However, when transforming your organization, you often have to take risks because of a lack of such detailed insight into the structure of the organization. Most executives understand this lack of detail, but still have to take a head-first dive in the murky waters of transformation because creating an organization’s blueprint requires time, money and skill that most organizations don’t have.

Your competition is increasing, and clients are becoming more demanding – what next?

Wed, 23 Dec 2015 22:04:00 GMT

Implementation Choices: Suites or Best-of-Breed Components

Fri, 18 Dec 2015 00:14:00 GMT

Software applications for the insurance industry have greatly evolved over time. After the industry graduated from its earliest days, in which customized mainframe applications that were unique to each company were dominant, various standardized applications began to emerge for the specific functions required by insurance companies. From the beginning of this century, the insurance software market has matured to a point where almost all vendors offer an “all-in-one” set of software (a “suite” of applications) which cover underwriting, billing, and claims. Similar suites are available on the accounting side, covering accounts receivable, accounts payable, general ledger management and statutory reporting. However, each component in a suite may not be the most popular, or “best of breed” program for that function.

Understanding Architecture Reuse

Thu, 17 Dec 2015 23:55:00 GMT

By Aman Aggarwal CPCU, PMP, SCEA, TOGAF, ACE, EA, MSc

Announcement – “Industry Reference Blueprint for Insurance (IRBI)” is now available.

Wed, 29 Jul 2015 07:51:00 GMT

Industry Reference Blueprint documents a reference architecture for the P&C insurance industry using three views of Business model, information systems model and the technology model.