Humans are fond of categorising everything, looking for a neat order to the world. Sometimes, this practice can be controversial and divisive, even leading to some rivalry. Consider the ongoing saga around generational gaps. Are you a baby boomer, a millennial or from Gen-Z (or the oft-forgotten gen x)? Does that determine if […]
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May
May
Insurance companies need to prepare themselves: the digital wave has reached the sector’s shores. For more than a decade, incumbent underwriters, brokers and UMAs have noted the potential impact of technology but did pretty little about it. This attitude has created a gap for a fledgeling insurtech market to develop. Insurtech seems small, […]
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Apr
Apr
Adopting Salesforce into your organisation is a gamechanger, and it has the history and pedigree to back such a claim. Salesforce is a pioneer of cloud systems and platforms, building these for over 20 years – well before many other big tech names. It’s a dominant player in the digital software services market—matched […]
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Dec
Dec
By Neer Rama, Force Solutions Product Manager at thryve 2020 will go down in history for notorious reasons, most of which we’re very familiar with by now. But as I look across my blogs for the year, I can make the case that it’s also been a positive year in several aspects. The […]
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Aug
Aug
By Riaan Bekker, Force Solutions Manager at thryve I have a confession to make. Until the pandemic arrived, some of the claims around digital technology remained vague. We could clearly see the results from successful transformations, but there was also still enough scepticism and unanswered questions to cause some doubt around digital transformation. After all, […]
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Jun
Jun
Every month, we select blogs from some of the companies that feature in thryve’s business solutions. June continues the focus on COVID-19 and recovering from its impact on the economy. This month, our choice of blogs look at what options grocery retailers have through digital systems, the pandemic’s impact on insurance businesses and what […]
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Jun
Jun
By Neer Rama, Force Solutions Product Manager at thryve The insurance industry faces an important transformational challenge. I’ve touched on this in my previous article, where I explored some of the barriers that are keeping insurance incumbents from changing with the times. In that piece, I looked at how looming competition will exploit the […]
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Jun
Jun
By Riaan Bekker, Force Solutions Manager at thryve Spreadsheets are very useful. Yes, they can be very narrowly defined and even encourage the silo cultures that exist between departments or teams. But they are also a very well-understood and widely-used business tool. Whether you want to use data more holistically or if you wish […]
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May
May
Every month, we round up blogs from some of the companies thryve leverages to build our business solutions. In May, there is a lot of emerging advice on navigating the COVID-19 crisis. These include keeping a culture going with work-from-home employees, survival tips from entrepreneurs, and how visualisation software makes social distancing easy to quantify. […]
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May
May
By Neer Rama, Force Solutions Product Manager at thryve The arrival of Ontario’s Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) is a welcome change for the province’s beleaguered motorists. The FSRA has oversight over financial services in general. But there is a particular hope that it will address the ongoing problems of local vehicle insurance, a point […]
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