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..., and download documents to your computer.
A VDR should offer customization op... involved. Luckily, there are virtual data rooms out there that offer customiz...
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... , presentations, and closing. The CSR staff should handle the service work and a good deal of the marketing. AUTOMATION Encourage proper utilization of automation. There's a huge difference between being "computerized" and truly "automated." Some agencies use the computer as simply a typewriter and accounting tool. Others are actively using e-mail, faxing from the computer, interfacing with their carriers, scanning data — and some are even transactional filing. There's a world of difference. Cost cutting and improved efficiency requires the proper use ... the computer's main functions. Get ongoing training from the firm's vendor, outside sources, or an in-house manager. Place a limit on the amount of data that's put into the computer to what's needed. In Personal Lines for example, if data can't be uploaded to the insurance companies and another terminal must be used, or data must be re-entered, it might not make sense to have all the data in the agency's system and again in another computer. Do what makes sense from a cost and efficiency standpoint. It's important to ... your agency's workflow at regular intervals. Automation was supposed to make workflow more efficient with fewer people. Often this is not the case, perhaps due to the way that the firm manages these workflow processes. For example, in Commercial Lines, we often see agencies re-entering data several times: Once to create a proposal, once to do an ACORD form, and sometimes even a third time, if the producer requires a special summary of insurance. If the data can't be reconfigured and entered only once, re-examine these items and ...
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... or accounting department (since computers were for 'number crunchers') and bl...76 = ______% SECTION VI-RATING AND UNDERWRITING MANAGEMENT Our agency...
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...r commercial property insurance, computer vision technology analyzes building ...ement platform represents the modern standard. The question is not whether to invest but how quickly to move forward and execute to build lasting advantage....
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... its income and 7,000 clients. The agency had also just lost the services of its manager for the past 18 years, as well as every Commercial Lines producer. As if that weren't enough, the only people who were trained to use the agency's brand-new computer system left the agency on the system's first live day of operation, before completing the data-conversion process. Needless to say, this was the greatest challenge of my business life. However, not only did the agency and I survive, but by the end of ... Most important to our success were the remaining agency employees, whose dedication I rate higher than any group I've ever worked with. Equally important was the application of what I call the Agency Profitability Audit. The Agency Profitability Audit consists of five stages: Analyze the available data. Understand the agency's objectives. Determine the agency's assets and course of action. Inform all personnel and companies of the course of action. Transact the procedures and practices needed to attain the established objectives. We applied the audit to virtually all aspects of the agency's ... , including computer data and use, sales and marketing, agency procedures and policies, communications and Internet use, customer service, agency image, advertising, financial analysis and forecasting, and the agency business plan. Many of these aspects were interrelated. Some also led to the auditing of other agency operations. Here's how the process works: ANALYZE THE AVAILABLE DATA. To analyze the agency data, it must first be collected. Some of this can be done through the agency's management system, but that's not always possible. The ...
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... Redundant files abound. The computer database, paper file, and Word and Excel files — each contains important ... taken should be entered as activities and discarded
Workflows should b...
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...he producer (who doesn’t use the computer system), and faxes the third to the ...nting electronic processing takes time and effort. Improved customer service, better retention of business, and additional sales make it well worth...
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...ed to use the agency's brand-new computer system left the agency on the system...ivity of your agency, build its value, and improve customer relations by emplo...
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... making AUTOMATION: A KEY FACTOR During the past 10 years, agents and brokers have become much more dependent on automation. Today's agents not only depend on the traditional agency automation system for basic policy transactions and accounting, but also on a variety of software packages and computer systems that include sophisticated systems for interfacing, rating, word processing, presentations, telemarketing, E-mail for both internal and external communications, the Internet, specialized technical information, spreadsheets, time management, and human resources management. Just as effective use of automation can ... go with a new system for both. These are major decisions that will affect the operations of both agencies and the financial results of the transaction. Although selection of the agency-management software system(s ) is important, other factors are involved. Decisions about training, data conversion, and procedures must be made, each with a significant impact on the ultimate success of the merger or acquisition. As many agencies can attest, changing an automation system can be the "best decision ever," or it can almost devastate an agency ... or breaking a deal. The fair market value of an agency is affected by its automation level to the extent that it improves productivity. Agency values are affected positively if automation use improves the quality of client service, account retention, carrier relationships, and the sales process. Timely and meaningful information that helps management to run an agency more effectively provides an extra bonus. Automation should have these impacts on agency value: Increased productivity and profitability Better quality of service to clients, resulting in increased account retention Improved communications, submissions, ...
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The ‘I’m Not A Computer Person’ Agency Owner
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