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University of Bristol Squash Club

Merlin Digital Consulting Ltd is pleased to announce that we are sponsoring the University of Bristol Squash Club for their upcoming 2019/20 season. This sponsorship will help the continued push to remain in the top rankings of British University squash. Hard work, dedication and perseverance are great qualities!

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Young Entrepreneurs: Inspired, Involved, Important.

What I took away from the Young Entrepreneurship in B2B Environments conference – By Joshua Clamp, Merlin DC

With only 7.6% of early-stage businesses currently being owned by 18-24 year olds, the UK has the potential for drastic growth in the number of young people becoming entrepreneurs over the coming years. Increasing this figure is the challenge that Luca Schnettler, founder of HealthyHealth, is trying to tackle. Hosting the event Henkel x HealthyHealth – Entrepreneurship in B2B Environments, at the Founders Factory on 12th September, Luca and guests discuss the need for young, dynamic input within the world of innovation, and provided useful insights for young entrepreneurs to encourage them on their startup journeys.

At the age of 19, Luca founded HealthyHealth, a startup looking to digitalise health assessment. Customers simply share their digital data so that the HealthyHealth algorithm can calculate an accurate and individualised medical risk profile, removing the need for lengthy questionnaires and doctor’s visits. Whilst providing a valuable service to consumers, HealthyHealth also partners with Health Insurance companies to streamline their underwriting journey, improving efficiency and reducing cost through automation. This is a great example of how, by bringing a fresh perspective and a shift in thinking to a well-established industry, young entrepreneurs can provide a valuable service to businesses. His passion for inspiring young entrepreneurs to consider developing a B2B startup led him to host this event at the Founders Factory, which had a number of guest speakers, and opened the floor to a selection of high-growth startups doing just this.

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Logical vs emotional

Thoroughly enjoyed being the key note speaker at this morning’s London Market Forum’s Change and Business Transformation Practice Group – focusing on the increasingly crucial people aspects of change within the London Market.

The talk, entitled “Logical vs emotional” covered my hands on experiences of the successes and scars of bringing people with you during transformational change.

Huge thanks to Roger Oldham for organising such a great event, Mark Baptist from OEE Consulting for sponsoring and everyone for a very thought provoking discussion.

Please read Roger’s testimonial –

Roger Oldham (LM Forums) https://lmforums.com/

“David Clamp’s knowledge of the insurance sector and in particular his experience in the technology and operations arena is clear to see from my one-to-one conversations with him and from his passion and drive to make a difference in the workplace. David has kindly addressed professionals and executives at two LMForums events during 2018 and has been willing to share his real-time experiences of driving change within the insurance market; a great orator and well connected industry professional”.

 

 

 

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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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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….”

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