Agile

EnterpriseArchitecture
Architecture Technology

Road to Success Paved with Business-Driven Architecture

The road to competitive advantage and market success in the healthcare and insurance industry has taken many twists and turns since the advent of the computerized age. From mainframes to client-server...

Agile Architecture
Technology

It’s All or Nothing When it Comes to Agile—Part 2

The path forward is clear: embrace and implement architectures that reinforce Agile principals and create a much better foundation for a dynamic enterprise of the future. Part 1 of this series disc...

Agile Architecture
Technology

It’s All or Nothing When it Comes to Agile–Part 1

An organization can never become truly Agile until it creates an overall enterprise architecture that is specifically designed to be Agile. “Any organization that designs a system (defined more bro...

AgileTeams
Insurance Technology

Four Ways to Build Effective Agile Teams

In Part One of this series, the focus was on the advantages and disadvantages of creating a separate and distinct team for any project’s integration work, as opposed to having integration work as part...

IntegrateSystems
Insurance Technology

How to Integrate Systems More Efficiently

As many insurers have discovered, the risks entailed in core system modernization are not what they used to be. There are still plenty of risks, of course, but in many cases these have less to do with...

PurposeDriven
Healthcare Technology

The Purpose–Driven Project Approach

Modern Information Technology work is all about outcomes. Market pressures, competitive differentiators, customer service expectations and new capabilities are just a few of the reasons that insurers ...