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GDPR – A compliance task or a positive business opportunity ?

I recently attended the Connect Media Consulting’s excellent Global CIO Banking Summit where I ran a think tank challenge entitled “25th May 2018 – Strategies for the Future”. Completely fed up with only hearing about GDPR being a boring compliance challenge, I was pleased to lead this and discover the potentially very positive outcomes possible through GDPR. Here is the article with the key outputs. Hope you enjoy it !   Continue reading “GDPR – A compliance task or a positive business opportunity ?”

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The Changing Face of Insurance

The insurance industry needs to evolve along with the new digital technologies and policies that are transforming insurance today. Namely, the competitive edge that is  afforded through digital transformation while making sure that they adhere to the new General Data  Protection Regulation which will come into force in May 2018. As such, senior insurance leaders are currently debating the future of digital insurance, how innovative life insurance products can be applied, and the role of InsurTechs.

By David Clamp Founder and Managing Director at Merlin Digital Consulting

Read more ….http://www.actuarialpost.co.uk/article/the-changing-face-of-insurance-13106.htm

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eToro selects DMway Analytics!

Karen Foreman  Senior Consultant Merlin Digital Consulting Ltd

eToro, a world fintech leader, announced today that it has selected DMway Analytics’ AI platform to boost marketing activities!

DMway Analytics is disrupting the data science world by providing an autonomous predictive analytics solution. The solution enables every subject matter expert (non-scientist   and citizen data scientist) to build his or her own predictive models within hours to days, versus the traditional development time of months to produce the models.

Read more…. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/etoro-selects-dmway-analytics-karen-foreman/

Merlin Digital Consulting Limited are proud to be partnering with DMway, an innovative new InsurTech coming out of Tel Aviv!

Don’t miss this opportunity to see DMway in action. Register now for a free Demo!   www.dmway.com

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The Perfect Storm – Digital, Data and Changing Business Models

I recently attended Connect Media Consulting’s European Digital Insurance Summit. This year’s event brought together over 50 senior insurance thought leaders, and its innovative and interactive nature (think tank challenges, working groups, and case study sessions) created lively and challenging debate about the future of digital insurance in an era of digital disruption. So what are the key challenges and opportunities that senior leaders in the industry face today? Here is a summary of my top three takeaways.   Continue reading “The Perfect Storm – Digital, Data and Changing Business Models”

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NEW! DMway Citizen Data Scientist Certification

Karen Foreman. Senior Consultant Merlin Digital Consulting Ltd

Fast track from analyst to citizen data scientist!   DMway Analytics is now offering a FREE citizen data scientist (CDS) certification. The package includes the following:

Two Citizen Data Scientist live training webinars with DMway’s founder and CTO, Dr Ronen Meiri.

30-day FREE trial of DMway’s automated predictive analytics platform

Up to three (3) hours working with one of DMway’s trainers tackling day-to-day predictive analytics challenges, including those using your own data

PLUS! All those who complete the certification receive 30% off their purchase of the DMway Analytics platform.

Read more…. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-dmway-citizen-data-scientist-certification-karen-foreman/

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Welcome to Merlin Digital Consulting Ltd

Happy Birthday Merlin Digital Consulting Ltd !

I dared to be different.

Tuesday, 2 January 2018

Exactly a year ago I dared to be different by launching a brand new consultancy company. The vision for Merlin Digital Consulting Ltd was to bring the latest technology innovations & digital thinking to the critically important insurance industry – for everyone’s benefit. In April, I was joined by Sue Collins as my PA and then in October by Karen Foreman (ex-Ageas) as our Senior Consultant. I am so pleased to say that in the last 12 months we have had the privilege of helping many incumbent insurers, InsurTech start ups and technology companies from across the world (literally!) – UK, Europe, Nordics, Australia and the US. With every company facing very similar challenges and of course opportunities to grow, the winning approaches we saw included; absolute customer centricity, business and IT agility, seeing digital disruption as a positive opportunity, trialling new ideas quickly and cheaply, using timely rich data with AI to “surprise and delight the customer” and, crucially, embracing the learning at every stage. Our first year of helping companies grow has been very engaging, highly motivating and, importantly, great fun!

There are some excellent predictions for 2018 on Linked In at the moment. I will simply comment that every insurance company, intermediary, vendor etc.. will face increasing levels of change and those that embrace this as a positive opportunity and dare to be different will flourish.

So, a huge thank you everyone – our customers, partners, associates and of course many friends. As a very good friend said to me in Israel, “business is personal” and, of all Merlin’s achievements, I rate the brilliant network of friendships as our greatest.

Happy New Year to you all and may 2018 be everything you wish it to be… and be different, I dare you!

David Clamp
Managing Director
Merlin Digital Consulting Ltd

“As digital as possible, human where it counts….”

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/happy-birthday-merlin-dc-ltd-david-clamp/

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Disruptive Technologies in Insurance Conference in Johannesburg

Privileged to be the key note speaker at the Disruptive Technologies in Insurance Conference in Johannesburg today – great event by Vukani Communications – with lots of insightful discussion about understanding technology disruption but importantly also how to best navigate this as an insurer/broker. Lots of great innovations and InsurTech start ups covered today, such as DMWay.com, Floodflash, VisionTrack, Neos, Flock, StreamCentral and even the just announced Tesla Semi truck. So much going on !

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The Future of General Insurance is amazing…

The Future of General Insurance conference is happening in London, 7-8 November and I will be with the Sapiens team to discuss their enhanced general insurance offering.

This year’s event promises to have a broader collection of insurance innovators than ever before. If you are among the 400+ speakers and delegates from all over Europe that will be in attendance, come over and grab me at booth #7.

As I chair the Sapiens P & C User Group, I am very pleased that Sapiens have really listened and been busy enhancing their general insurance platform. The Sapiens IDIT suite now features; elasticsearch capabilities; a pre-integrated, full digital suite with customer and agent portals; embedded DevOps and more. I particularly like the new GDPR functionality (closely teamworked with many Sapiens clients).

Looking forward to catching up over the next couple of days !

David Clamp

Managing Director

Merlin Digital Consulting Ltd

“As digital as possible, human where it counts….”

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