Description: While it is now almost universally accepted that data can bring value to the insurance industry, there is little guidance on exactly how to make that value tangible. This session goes beyond advances in computing and storage technologies and is aimed directly at business leaders. This session will define what a data strategy is, discuss the main components, describe how to get started creating one, and will outline how to translate a strategy into execution.

Description: Details of an actuary’s project to help a local nonprofit agency improve its data analysis and customer service issues.

Description: This presentation is a lecture, session 57L, from the 2004 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 14-15 in San Antonio, TX. The speaker provides context and general background on business intelligence [BI], including topics such as online analytical processing [OLAP], and provides some examples. Next is a basic discussion of data modeling. The speaker then reviews the technology and tools currently on the marketplace, and finally discusses implementation strategy in terms of how actuaries work with IT in this area. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 2.

Description: Using Healthcare Claims Data to Create Actuarial Models.

Description: Case study of examples of small consulting firm.

Description: The purpose of the article is to highlight how a person or organization can excel in both a highly-competitive expert-driven environment and one where the environment is less so. One should focus on what can be done well and delegate the remaining tasks to those who are better at performing them. One should understand the environment they are operating in, how it impacts them, and how it may change through time. The principles have application to investment management, investment performance, organizational performance, business development, career progression and economics.

Description: Chairperson's Corner

Description: Read the April 2017 issue of CompAct published by the Technology Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: Possible usage of tools that can automate time consuming processes, and lead to a different team structure and organization for predictive analytics team.

Description: 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium. The panelists discussed the benefits of data integration, data warehousing, what OLifE is now, and what it is projected to be in the future.