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− | from e-insurance to e-takaful
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− | 1st e-takaful seminar
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− | Sami Guellouz Dubaï 06-04-2005 1
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− | Overview
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− | E-business definition
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− | E-business strategy road map
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− | E-insurance overview
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− | E-takaful
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− | E-business
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− | E-Business
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− | Electronic commerce
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− | m-commerce
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− | E-business
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− | Use of of electronic means to conduct
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− | an organization’s business internally
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− | and/or externally
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− | Internal e-business
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− | Better info sharing, knowledge dissemination
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− | management reporting
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− | External e-business
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− | Formulation of a sales promotion,
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− | Collaboration with partners
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− | E-commerce
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− | Focus on facilitating transactions and
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− | selling of products and services online,
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− | By internet or any other telecom
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− | network,
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− | Encompasses all trading steps :
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− | Online (marketing, ordering, distribution), e-
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− | payment
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− | Buy-side activities (suppliers)
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− | Selle-side activities (customers)
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− | m-commerce
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− | Subset of e-commerce
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− | Similar online activities
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− | Underlying technology is more specific
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− | Limited to mobile telecom networks
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− | Accessed through wireless hand-held devices
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− | (mobile phones, hand-held computers, personal
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− | digital assistants)
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− | Overview
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− | E-business definition
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− | E-business strategy road map
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− | E-insurance overview
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− | E-takaful
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− | E-business strategy roadmap
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− | Vision formulation
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− | Business objectives definition
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− | Customer value creation
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− | Market segmentation and targeting
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− | Organizational set up
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− | E-business model formulation
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− | Pre-requisites
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− | Managers need to be «catalysts of change »
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− | Combine positive traits of both the « visionary »
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− | and the « efficient performer »
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− | High levels of both creativity and analytical ability
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− | Know that ideas by themselves are not enough to
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− | build a profitable business
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− | Able to find new ideas by analysing state-of-the
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− | art cies within their industry and across other
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− | industries
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− | Vision formulation
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− | Twofold goals :
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− | Focus attention and effort of top
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− | management and employees around a
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− | common task
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− | Encourage creativity and innovation by
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− | expanding your thinking beyond the
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− | existing boundaries of the cy and its
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− | environment
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− | Business objectives definition
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− | Objectives have to be measurable
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− | Allow progress tracking
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− | Ex : % of savings amount due e-
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− | business strategy implementation
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− | Business objectives definition
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− | Objectives have to be measurable
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− | Allow progress tracking
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− | Ex : % of savings amount due e-
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− | business strategy implementation
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− | Customer value creation
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− | Low price
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− | Become cost leader within the industry
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− | Differentiation advantage :
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− | Superior brand name, high service quality,
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− | broad product selection,
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− | Leverage information available to create
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− | benefits for your customers (by data
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− | mining techniques for instance)
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− | Market segmentation
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− | Closely linked to value creation
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− | Two steps :
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− | Select criteria for dividing you market into
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− | segments
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− | age, income for instance
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− | Consumer (personal lines), corporate (commercial
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− | lines)
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− | Decide which segment to target
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− | Segment’s needs driven products and services
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− | Organizational set up
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− | What scale?
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− | Analysis of expected cost structure of e-business
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− | activities
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− | Analysis of each activity of the value chain
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− | Analysis of its underlying cost drivers
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− | What scope?
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− | Products scope
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− | Leverage the internet to establish partnerships with
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− | complementors
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− | How integrated?
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− | Which e-business activities to perform in-house and
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− | which ones to outsource?
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− | Organizational set up
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− | How to align physical-world strategy with e-
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− | strategy?
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− | Stragtegic decisions
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− | Branding, pricing, IT and channel conflict
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− | What structure?
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− | Integrated into the existing organization
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− | Leverage brand to attract customers to online channel
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− | Multi-channel offering becomes possible, cross
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− | promotions, shared IT
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− | Set up inside a separate entity
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− | Business model
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− | Cost structure?
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− | Consider individual parts of te value chain
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− | Production, IT, marketing, sales an after sales service
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− | How can we use internet to lower costs across the value
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− | chain?
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− | Revenue structure?
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− | Transaction fees, advertising revenues,
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− | subscription fees (in B2C e-commerce)
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− | Assess sustainability of business model
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− | Intensity of competition, substitutes, etc.
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− | Leveraging data mining techniques to analyse customer
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− | information
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− | Overview
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− | E-business definition
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− | E-business strategy road map
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− | E-insurance overview
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− | E-takaful
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− | Business models for e-
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− | insurance
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− | Insurance cy’s websites
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− | homepages of individual insurers
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− | Products portals
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− | Comprehensive standard websites for insurance
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− | Aggregators
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− | Internet insurance brokers
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− | Online risk markets
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− | Large risks placed with trading partners
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− | Point of sale portals
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− | product marketing through various theme-based pages
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− | E-insurance difficulties
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− | Complexity of some products
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− | Claims settlement difficult to
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− | standardise
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− | Internet suited for products where the
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− | contact with the cy is more frequent
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− | Internet viewed as insecure medium for
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− | high amounts
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− | Regulation (licences)
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− | Internet-product suitability
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− | * Large commercial risks
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− | High
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− | * Health insurance
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− | * Commercial motor
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− | Transaction volume
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− | * Annuity products
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− | * Motor
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− | * Index linked life
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− | * Household products
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− | * Term life
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− | Low
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− | Low Product complexity High
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− | E-insurance advantages
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− | Important market share gain potential
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− | Standardised personal lines insurance
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− | Limited suitability for sale via internet
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− | Most life and pension products, health insurance,
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− | commercial insurance
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− | Enormous potential for improvements in
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− | quality and service levels
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− | Better tailored products
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− | Shorter reponse times
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− | Greater flexibility in cover structure
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− | Better risk management support
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− | E-business increases efficiency
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− | Sales, administration, claims settlement,
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− | claims payment expenses
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− | decrease for both personal and commercial lines
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− | Personal lines cost cut potential >
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− | Commercial lines cost cut potential
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− | High level of advisory services and tailor made
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− | products
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− | Market entry barriers lowered
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− | New entrants can avoid long and expensive
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− | setting up of traditional sales network
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− | “Lateral” from other sectors benefit from
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− | easier access
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− | Financial services, internet cies, banks, online brokers,
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− | internet service providers
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− | Internet presence and brand name to add insurance to
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− | their product range
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− | More efficiency
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− | Established insurers face growing competitive
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− | pressure
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− | Towards more integrated e-
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− | business models
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− | E-business makes it possible to
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− | disseminate information quickly and in
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− | large volumes
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− | Traditional value chain is deconstructed
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− | and certain links are outsourced to
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− | specialist providers
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− | Internet impact on value chain
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− | Product development & rating
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− | Standardisation, data availability and analysis, new
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− | risks
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− | Marketing
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− | New marketing opportunities, deintermediation,
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− | reintermediation
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− | Administration
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− | Standardisation, automation
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− | Asset management
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− | Better information
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− | Claims management
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− | Automation, proximity to the customer, additional
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− | services
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− | Potential providers
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− | Product development & rating
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− | Actuarial firms
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− | Marketing
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− | Trading cies, financial services providers, virtual
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− | brokers and markets
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− | Administration
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− | Policy administrators, IT companies
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− | Asset management
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− | Asset managers, funds, banks
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− | Claims management
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− | Professional claims managers, call centres, Repair
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− | companies
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− | Role of traditional brokers is
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− | shifting
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− | Standard products
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− | Considerable competition
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− | Products that need more advice and for
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− | which prices and benefits are not easy
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− | to compare
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− | Using e-business, more finance management
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− | and risk consulting services
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− | Ex : complex pension products, commercial
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− | lines
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− | Customers benefits
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− | Greater transparency, lower prices and
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− | improved services
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− | E-business opens up new ways of reducing
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− | costs
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− | Hardening competition ensures that these
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− | benefits are passed on to the customer
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− | Internet offers a number of possibilities of
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− | increasing the value creation for customers
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− | by means of increased transparency and
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− | improved services
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− | E-insurance conclusion
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− | From purely info and communication medium
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− | to important distribution channel
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− | Focus from selling products to consumers
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− | (B2C) to selling to commercial clients (B2B).
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− | Internet does not only impact the distribution
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− | but the entire business process
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− | Challenge of continuously optimizing the
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− | business processes
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− | Overview
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− | E-business definition
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− | E-business strategy road map
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− | E-insurance overview
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− | E-takaful
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− | Insurance not permissible
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− | Uncertainty (Gharar)
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− | Gambling (Maisir)
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− | Interest (Riba)
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− | E-takaful
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− | Prevent al-gharar, uncertainty and ambiguity
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− | in the transaction
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− | Provide to the consumers with comparative
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− | informations between products available
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− | Lead to more informed decision by
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− | consumers
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− | Scope of the cover, benefits and exclusions
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− | Rate of tabarru’ for takaful vs saving
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− | E-takaful
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− | Young industry
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− | Can leverage on the conventional insurance e-
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− | experience
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− | Comprehensive e-business strategies should be
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− | built (eventhough takaful is a high level brand)
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− | Takafulconcept & internet suitability
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− | E-business enhances the transparency (involved
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− | by the takaful concept)
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− | E-business favor the participant’s empowerment
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− | (involved in the takaful concept)
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− | Thank you
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− | Sources
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− | Swiss Re, Sigma n° 5/2000
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− | Strategies for e-business, Prentice Hall,
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− | Financial Times
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