Accenture publishes guidance on getting value from insurers' AI spending

It recommends a "two-speed" data approach: keep modernizing older systems while feeding data to AI projects now.

Accenture published guidance on how insurers can get more return from what they spend on AI. It tells insurers to tie each AI project to a business goal. It also recommends a "two-speed" data strategy, which means modernizing older systems while still supplying data to AI projects in the meantime.

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This is advice from a firm that sells technology consulting to insurers. It is not a study of results. The report includes no figures, no sample and no named carrier deployment.

This item changes nothing on an underwriting or agency desk today. It is worth watching whether your carrier partners start linking their AI projects to a named business result, because that is the question this guidance tells their executives to ask.

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