Michele Williams: Head of XSE, Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (56)

InsTech - insurance & innovation with Matthew Grant

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Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 50 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Allianz is one of the world's largest insurance companies, so how does an organisation that size stay ahead when it comes to innovation? Matthew talks to Michele Williams, Head of Allianz Global Corporate Corporate & Specialty's central innovation unit XSE, to find out what the group is doing, and the areas of analytics and data they are interested in. Michele explains Allianz's strategy for producing new ideas - which are focussed around their clients' needs - and how they work with start-ups, scale-ups and technology providers. Michele explains how Allianz's Trend Compass tool has become a central focus for looking at which directions the insurance market might head in. The tool is available for anyone on the Allianz website - https://tci.agcs.allianz.com/ To find out all that we are up to at InsTech London - including our growing corporate member list, and details of last two years events take a look at www.instech.london. Our events begin again in January 2020. We're delighted to be bringing you this podcast with support from the Insurance Insider. For a free copy follow this link - http://campaigns.insuranceinsider.com/instechlondon/

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0:00.0	They present us with the problems, their business problems, our client business problems, and we work with them to find a technology solution to solve those.
0:08.8	So any project that we work on has that end value because it always comes from a business problem.
0:19.9	Hello, this is Matthew Grant, partner at INSTEC London.
0:23.6	Now, Alliance is one of the world's largest insurance companies and Alliance Global Corporate Specialty, or AGCS, focuses on providing insurance to companies of all sizes around the world from over 200 offices. So it's really interesting to have a
0:39.5	chance to talk to Michel Williams, who heads up the recently formed Alleyance XSE or
0:46.1	cross-functional smart evolution. This is their central innovation unit at Allianz AGCS.
0:53.2	Michel is based out of Munich. And Mischel has a degree in engineering,
0:59.0	but also brings to her role experience in risk assessment and underwriting with Alianz.
1:04.4	In our discussion, she provides some very helpful insights into Alianz's strategy for why,
1:10.7	how and where it looks for new ideas.
1:14.0	And it's also worth noting that most of the work they do or probably all of the work they
1:17.2	do begins with the customer and with a customer problem.
1:21.5	Sounds obvious, but something that can often be forgotten about when it comes to the
1:25.5	complicated world of commercial and specialty insurance.
1:29.3	Michel also talks about the Allianz Trend Compass.
1:32.3	Worth taking a look at that. It's a tool they use which is available to anyone and there is a link in the episode notes to where you can find it on the web.
1:40.3	Once again, we're delighted to be supported by Insurance Insider for these podcasts.
1:45.9	They are one of the best sources of information on the global wholesale specialty and
1:50.5	reinsurance market.
1:52.0	Personally, I've been reading their daily bulletins for over 10 years and a quick search just
1:55.9	now on Allianz brought up 15 articles from the last month alone.
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