In the last 2-3 decades, however, a sort of grand wave of business innovation has given us a heightened sense of what it means to be an innovative company. We’re now seeing the results of a different kind of business model and digital mindset that actually began in the mid-1990s. In...
Auto insurance, coincidentally, is also a 120-year-old “established” industry, based around a policy transaction. Will insurers continue to provide traditional insurance in traditional ways until they are forced down a dead-end path, or will they embrace new trends, new technologies, new ...
She noted that the cancellation policy is stricter through David’s than through Disney directly (refunds come only in the form of a travel credit, and you must cancel at least 120 days in advance to receive 100% of the reservation price back), so be sure to consider travel insurance. ...
After processing the sales data (a complex task in the insurance industry, since so many pertinent details are routinely involved for every policy sold) these machines feed back the essential sales information to two master computers at headquarters. There the data are summarized and printouts are ...
115 The mid-term goal of this plan is to halve the number of deaths due to heatstroke from current levels (approximate five-year moving average of 1295 deaths as of 2022).115 Implemented adaptation measures With the aforementioned policy foundations for adaptation to the heat-related impacts of...
The huge volume of health policy, theory, research and program development should provide some instructive principles for changing road user behavior. As in road safety, health promotion has had to address the issue of defining the objectives of a healthy lifestyle. Is it enough to be able to...
yet whose influence still resonates in public policy across the world. Talk to anybody concerned with children’s play and his name is mentioned within minutes; the same is true of those involved in squatting and self-build movements, in town planning as a form of civic democracy, in enviro...
By the 1960s,a grassroots urban renewal effort was underway to revitalize the downtown and restore the fort, but this required the National Park Service to go against its long-standing policy: “We protect, preserve, interpret any natural thing, but nothing was left of fort.” But political...
Sending a single unambiguous message from local officials is the best policy regarding evacuations. Offering “options” can create confusion and lead people to pick the option that appeals most to them personally — which might not be the safest one. Whatever the communication, it must be defini...
127.In-Vehicle Usage– Monitoring driving habits like speed, sudden acceleration, and pushing hard on the brakes for insurance underwriting. 128.GeoFencing– Immobilizing cross-border travel with geofencing (virtual barriers) – perfect for car sharing and rental programs. (To Geofence or not) ...