March 2019 – The importance of IT governance for insurers is growing. Old practices need updating as they expand Agile development and cloud adoption, implement DevOps, and drive IT organizations to greater efficiency. Increasing investment in digital and data initiatives also pose a challenge to traditional forms of IT governance.
Modern IT governance processes optimize IT resource allocation for this new environment. Successful IT governance focuses on high levels of collaboration via strong communication programs that align IT and business with corporate strategic objectives, rather than focusing primarily on process control and budgeting.
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Eric Weisburg
Eric Weisburg is a Senior Principal at Datos Insights. His expertise lies in insurance technology, data, and analytics, and distribution, underwriting, and finance. Eric has over 20 years of LAB and P/C insurance industry, consulting, and IT experience. Prior to Datos Insights, Eric served as Managing Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at Tower Group Companies and VP at AIG, where he...