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  Best practices :
 
  from e-insurance to e-takaful
 
  1st e-takaful seminar
 
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Overview
 
      E-business definition
 
      E-business strategy road map
 
      E-insurance overview
 
      E-takaful
 
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E-business
 
                      E-Business
 
                Electronic commerce
 
                      m-commerce
 
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E-business
 
      Use of of electronic means to conduct
 
      an organization’s business internally
 
      and/or externally
 
      Internal e-business
 
             Better info sharing, knowledge dissemination
 
             management reporting
 
      External e-business
 
             Formulation of a sales promotion,
 
             Collaboration with partners
 
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E-commerce
 
      Focus on facilitating transactions and
 
      selling of products and services online,
 
      By internet or any other telecom
 
      network,
 
      Encompasses all trading steps :
 
             Online (marketing, ordering, distribution), e-
 
              payment
 
             Buy-side activities (suppliers)
 
             Selle-side activities (customers)
 
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m-commerce
 
      Subset of e-commerce
 
      Similar online activities
 
      Underlying technology is more specific
 
             Limited to mobile telecom networks
 
             Accessed through wireless hand-held devices
 
              (mobile phones, hand-held computers, personal
 
              digital assistants)
 
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Overview
 
      E-business definition
 
      E-business strategy road map
 
      E-insurance overview
 
      E-takaful
 
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E-business strategy roadmap
 
      Vision formulation
 
      Business objectives definition
 
      Customer value creation
 
      Market segmentation and targeting
 
      Organizational set up
 
      E-business model formulation
 
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Pre-requisites
 
      Managers need to be «catalysts of change »
 
        Combine positive traits of both the « visionary »
 
          and the « efficient performer »
 
        High levels of both creativity and analytical ability
 
        Know that ideas by themselves are not enough to
 
          build a profitable business
 
        Able to find new ideas by analysing state-of-the
 
          art cies within their industry and across other
 
          industries
 
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Vision formulation
 
      Twofold goals :
 
        Focus attention and effort of top
 
          management and employees around a
 
          common task
 
        Encourage creativity and innovation by
 
          expanding your thinking beyond the
 
          existing boundaries of the cy and its
 
          environment
 
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Business objectives definition
 
      Objectives have to be measurable
 
      Allow progress tracking
 
      Ex : % of savings amount due e-
 
      business strategy implementation
 
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Business objectives definition
 
      Objectives have to be measurable
 
      Allow progress tracking
 
      Ex : % of savings amount due e-
 
      business strategy implementation
 
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Customer value creation
 
      Low price
 
        Become cost leader within the industry
 
      Differentiation advantage :
 
        Superior brand name, high service quality,
 
          broad product selection,
 
        Leverage information available to create
 
          benefits for your customers (by data
 
          mining techniques for instance)
 
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Market segmentation
 
      Closely linked to value creation
 
      Two steps :
 
        Select criteria for dividing you market into
 
          segments
 
                 age, income for instance
 
                 Consumer (personal lines), corporate (commercial
 
                  lines)
 
        Decide which segment to target
 
                 Segment’s needs driven products and services
 
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Organizational set up
 
      What scale?
 
        Analysis of expected cost structure of e-business
 
          activities
 
                   Analysis of each activity of the value chain
 
                   Analysis of its underlying cost drivers
 
      What scope?
 
                   Products scope
 
                   Leverage the internet to establish partnerships with
 
                    complementors
 
      How integrated?
 
                   Which e-business activities to perform in-house and
 
                    which ones to outsource?
 
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Organizational set up
 
      How to align physical-world strategy with e-
 
      strategy?
 
        Stragtegic decisions
 
             Branding, pricing, IT and channel conflict
 
      What structure?
 
        Integrated into the existing organization
 
             Leverage brand to attract customers to online channel
 
             Multi-channel offering becomes possible, cross
 
              promotions, shared IT
 
        Set up inside a separate entity
 
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Business model
 
      Cost structure?
 
        Consider individual parts of te value chain
 
                 Production, IT, marketing, sales an after sales service
 
                 How can we use internet to lower costs across the value
 
                  chain?
 
      Revenue structure?
 
        Transaction fees, advertising revenues,
 
          subscription fees (in B2C e-commerce)
 
        Assess sustainability of business model
 
                 Intensity of competition, substitutes, etc.
 
                 Leveraging data mining techniques to analyse customer
 
                  information
 
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Overview
 
      E-business definition
 
      E-business strategy road map
 
      E-insurance overview
 
      E-takaful
 
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Business models for e-
 
insurance
 
      Insurance cy’s websites
 
                   homepages of individual insurers
 
      Products portals
 
                   Comprehensive standard websites for insurance
 
      Aggregators
 
                   Internet insurance brokers
 
      Online risk markets
 
                   Large risks placed with trading partners
 
      Point of sale portals
 
                   product marketing through various theme-based pages
 
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E-insurance difficulties
 
      Complexity of some products
 
      Claims settlement difficult to
 
      standardise
 
      Internet suited for products where the
 
      contact with the cy is more frequent
 
      Internet viewed as insecure medium for
 
      high amounts
 
      Regulation (licences)
 
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                    Internet-product suitability
 
                                                                              * Large commercial risks
 
High
 
                                                            * Health insurance
 
                                                        * Commercial motor
 
Transaction volume
 
                                                                                    * Annuity products
 
                            * Motor
 
                                                                                * Index linked life
 
                                * Household                                        products
 
                                          * Term life
 
Low
 
                        Low                    Product complexity                                      High
 
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E-insurance advantages
 
      Important market share gain potential
 
             Standardised personal lines insurance
 
      Limited suitability for sale via internet
 
             Most life and pension products, health insurance,
 
              commercial insurance
 
      Enormous potential for improvements in
 
      quality and service levels
 
              Better tailored products
 
              Shorter reponse times
 
              Greater flexibility in cover structure
 
              Better risk management support
 
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E-business increases efficiency
 
      Sales, administration, claims settlement,
 
      claims payment expenses
 
                 decrease for both personal and commercial lines
 
      Personal lines cost cut potential >
 
      Commercial lines cost cut potential
 
                 High level of advisory services and tailor made
 
                  products
 
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Market entry barriers lowered
 
      New entrants can avoid long and expensive
 
      setting up of traditional sales network
 
      “Lateral” from other sectors benefit from
 
      easier access
 
             Financial services, internet cies, banks, online brokers,
 
              internet service providers
 
             Internet presence and brand name to add insurance to
 
              their product range
 
             More efficiency
 
      Established insurers face growing competitive
 
      pressure
 
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Towards more integrated e-
 
business models
 
      E-business makes it possible to
 
      disseminate information quickly and in
 
      large volumes
 
      Traditional value chain is deconstructed
 
      and certain links are outsourced to
 
      specialist providers
 
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Internet impact on value chain
 
      Product development & rating
 
                 Standardisation, data availability and analysis, new
 
                  risks
 
      Marketing
 
                 New marketing opportunities, deintermediation,
 
                  reintermediation
 
      Administration
 
                 Standardisation, automation
 
      Asset management
 
                 Better information
 
      Claims management
 
                 Automation, proximity to the customer, additional
 
                  services
 
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Potential providers
 
      Product development & rating
 
                 Actuarial firms
 
      Marketing
 
                 Trading cies, financial services providers, virtual
 
                  brokers and markets
 
      Administration
 
                 Policy administrators, IT companies
 
      Asset management
 
                 Asset managers, funds, banks
 
      Claims management
 
                 Professional claims managers, call centres, Repair
 
                  companies
 
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Role of traditional brokers is
 
shifting
 
      Standard products
 
             Considerable competition
 
      Products that need more advice and for
 
      which prices and benefits are not easy
 
      to compare
 
             Using e-business, more finance management
 
              and risk consulting services
 
             Ex : complex pension products, commercial
 
              lines
 
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Customers benefits
 
      Greater transparency, lower prices and
 
      improved services
 
      E-business opens up new ways of reducing
 
      costs
 
      Hardening competition ensures that these
 
      benefits are passed on to the customer
 
      Internet offers a number of possibilities of
 
      increasing the value creation for customers
 
      by means of increased transparency and
 
      improved services
 
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E-insurance conclusion
 
      From purely info and communication medium
 
      to important distribution channel
 
      Focus from selling products to consumers
 
      (B2C) to selling to commercial clients (B2B).
 
      Internet does not only impact the distribution
 
      but the entire business process
 
      Challenge of continuously optimizing the
 
      business processes
 
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Overview
 
      E-business definition
 
      E-business strategy road map
 
      E-insurance overview
 
      E-takaful
 
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Insurance not permissible
 
      Uncertainty (Gharar)
 
      Gambling (Maisir)
 
      Interest (Riba)
 
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E-takaful
 
      Prevent al-gharar, uncertainty and ambiguity
 
      in the transaction
 
      Provide to the consumers with comparative
 
      informations between products available
 
      Lead to more informed decision by
 
      consumers
 
      Scope of the cover, benefits and exclusions
 
      Rate of tabarru’ for takaful vs saving
 
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E-takaful
 
      Young industry
 
        Can leverage on the conventional insurance e-
 
          experience
 
        Comprehensive e-business strategies should be
 
          built (eventhough takaful is a high level brand)
 
      Takafulconcept & internet suitability
 
        E-business enhances the transparency (involved
 
          by the takaful concept)
 
        E-business favor the participant’s empowerment
 
          (involved in the takaful concept)
 
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  Thank you
 
                            Sources
 
                    Swiss Re, Sigma n° 5/2000
 
              Strategies for e-business, Prentice Hall,
 
                          Financial Times
 
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