Kristofer le Sage de Fontenay: Vice President, Insurance Leader UK, Capgemini: Innovation, integration and culture as core competence (204)

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🗓️ 21 August 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Capgemini is an information technology services and consulting company partnering with businesses to develop innovation and integration solutions. Matthew talks to Kristofer le Sage de Fontenay, the Vice President, Insurance Leader UK, to discuss the importance of company culture, the benefits of being technology agnostic and what this means in practice for Capgemini’s data capabilities. You will also discover some lessons on insurance and technology innovation from experiences of farming in extreme conditions. Talking points include: What a system integration company does and what differentiates Capgemini How Capgemini is working with partners such as Guidewire and Duck Creek How to foster talent and develop higher performers quickly How Capgemini is managing sustainability and taking actions to reduce its carbon emissions More InsTech content featuring Capgemini is available on the company’s member profile page. If you like what you're hearing, please leave us a review on whichever platform you use or contact Matthew Grant on LinkedIn. Sign up to the InsTech newsletter for a fresh view on the world every Wednesday morning. Continuing Professional Development - Learning Objectives InsTech is accredited by The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII). By listening to any InsTech podcast or reading the accompanying transcript, you can claim up to 0.5 hours towards the CII member CPD scheme. The Learning Objectives for this podcast are: Define what it means to be a technology agnostic business Explain the role of traditional system integration companies during the implementation of new platforms List some of the different actions that can be taken to reduce carbon emissions as a technology partner If your organisation is a member of InsTech and you would like to receive a quarterly summary of the CPD hours you have earned, visit the Episode 204 page of the InsTech website or email cpd@instech.co to let us know you have listened to this podcast. To help us measure the impact of the learning, we would be grateful if you would take a minute to complete a quick feedback survey.

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0:00.0	Good morning, good afternoon and thank you for joining us wherever you are and whatever you are up to.
0:16.8	Now, as the dust settles, or maybe that should be the smoke clears, following the enthusiasm
0:21.4	for InsureTech, changing the world a few years ago, a few themes are emerging as those insurers
0:26.9	really care about. Well, you've heard us talk about them before. Climate, parametric, use of data
0:33.1	and analytics to make better decisions, extracting information from PDFs and spreadsheets.
0:37.7	God love that one, and the power of platforms.
0:40.5	The list does go on.
0:41.8	And there are many fascinating companies out there doing this and more.
0:46.0	But not everything that glitters is gold.
0:48.8	And the one test of whether a new idea is any good.
0:51.8	And my personal favourite filter for many things in life is the
0:54.7	question, so what? Or is close cousin, who cares? Try that one out next time you come across
0:59.7	something that looks bright, shiny and new. Well, today's guest works for a company that you
1:07.4	may have heard of, but many people may not realize what it does, or indeed how successful it has been. Cap Gemini has definitely answered this, so what,
1:15.6	and who cares question. It's not just about the size of the company, though. As you'll find
1:19.9	in a minute in my interview with Chris LaSage de Fontenay, Cap Gemini cares a lot about culture,
1:25.4	supporting its people and taking a lead in meaningful actions
1:28.2	to manage sustainability and measure carbon emissions, both for itself and its clients.
1:34.4	Now, someone told me recently they thought our podcasts were getting a little bit too corporate.
1:38.1	Well, we all love the energy of startups and the hard-won growth of scale-ups, but innovation
1:43.4	didn't begin in 2015. And there is a lot
1:46.2	to learn from how larger companies maintain and cultivate ideas, diversity, and the use
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