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Collective Intelligence:
Filling the Insurance
Talent Gap
By combining the skills of full-time employees, intelligent
machines and specialized external resources, carriers
can overcome talent deficits, reduce overhead, maintain
compliance, and bolster overall performance.
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Executive Summary
According to the Freelancers Union,1
nearly 54 million Americans — 34%
of the country’s total workforce — work independently. This number is
expected to increase, compelling employers across industries to source
specialized skills from virtually anywhere without expanding their full-
time staff. Along with this trend, the use of robots – though not new to
workplace environments – is predicted to grow exponentially, and have a
greater impact on how businesses operate and compete.
Combining the talent of in-house personnel, intelligent machines, and
external resources can close skills gaps and reduce overhead. This is
especially relevant in the insurance industry, where 25% of employees
are expected to retire by 2018.2
By utilizing the collective intelligence of in-house workers, independent
contractors, consortiums, and internal robots (bots), insurers can resolve
complex business challenges, perform specialized functions in less time,
and create predictive models that precisely classify risks. Assigning
machines to handle repetitive, high-volume tasks can heighten overall
productivity while accommodating heavier workloads – all at a fraction
of the cost (and time) it would take full-time employees to perform these
functions.
This white paper discusses how collective intelligence can help insurers
optimize the knowledge and capabilities of employees, machines, and
external talent; assure that standards and practices remain consistent;
improve decision making, and distinguish their brand.
COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE: FILLING THE INSURANCE TALENT GAP 3COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE: FILLING THE INSURANCE TALENT GAP 3
What is Collective Intelligence?
Collective intelligence combines the power of human and automated capabilities (see Figure 1). In
this paper, human intelligence refers to the knowledge and skills of in-house salaried employees
and specialized resources outside the company. Automated intelligence pertains to artificial
intelligence software that replicates some functions that humans perform.
Employee
Intelligence
Knowledge & skills
of in-house salaried
employees.
Robotic/
Automated Intelligence
Computers capable of
replicating many
human skills.
Crowd-Sourced
Intelligence
Collective knowledge
& skills from external
groups.
Collective intelligence tasks are designated as follows:
•	Humans primary, bots secondary: The human is the primary owner of a process-
related task, and delegates the sub-tasks with scope for robotic process automation.
•	Robots primary, humans secondary: The robot is the principal owner of a process/
task; refers sub-tasks that require advanced cognitive abilities to a human.
•	Humans and bots work in distinct roles: A task requires both artificial intelligence
(machine or software automation handled by the bot) and human intelligence.
•	Human and bot work in tandem: The task requires a person and a bot to share the
workload. They work in concert to deliver consistent results that make it difficult to
distinguish their roles.
Figure 1
Crowdsourcing
The Oxford Economics Workforce 2020 Report3
found that a hefty 83% of executives
increasingly rely on consultants, intermittent employees, or contingent workers. (For
more on this topic, read “Jumping on the Gig Economy” in the Cognizanti journal.)
This “crowd” can perform a variety of tasks, with incentives that can vary depending
on the nature of the work.
For insurers, crowdsourcing talent is primarily driven by four objectives:
•	Overcome skill shortages. A large percentage of the insurance workforce will
begin to reach retirement age over the next few years. McKinsey & Company
reports that by 2018, more than a quarter of the insurance workforce will be
nearing retirement, while according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, less than
a third of insurance employees are under the age of 35.4
The Insurance Informa-
tion Institute (The III) projects there will be at least 400,000 open positions in
insurance by the year 2020,5
and there are fewer takers. Crowdsourcing can help
resolve this dilemma.
•	Develop innovative products and services. Crowdsourcing can be extremely
effective in identifying business/technology issues and for experimenting with
new solutions. For instance, Monetary Authority of Singapore6
(MAS), which
provides regulatory oversight across the country’s financial services industry,
has invited fintech firms worldwide to submit ideas and design solutions for 100
problem statements that were originally crowdsourced from the industry and
the public. Participants will be able to try out cutting-edge fintech solutions in
a regulatory sandbox environment7
and relax specific regulatory requirements
within a stipulated time frame.
•	Solve complex challenges at a lower cost. Insurers can access their collective
resources online or through local channels. Members of the crowd perform
non-core or specialized tasks, such as predicting the factors that influence
policyholders’ decisions, or identifying and classifying risk. Those that success-
fully employ crowdsourcing and other flexible working models can position
themselves at the forefront of innovation. For example, Kaggle,8
a platform for
predictive modeling and analytics, conducts contests to source predictive models
from data scientists worldwide. Insurers such as Allstate, State Farm, Liberty
Mutual and Prudential have utilized crowdsourcing to develop predictive models
for accurately classifying risk, tailoring coverage accordingly, or predicting a
customer’s purchase patterns.
•	Create a better value proposition. Crowdsourcing can rapidly generate
real-time data that can be shared across the crowd. The data can concern
the crowd itself, or pertain to business initiatives/processes. Insurers can
analyze and process it quickly, enabling them to provide timely, highly
accurate information that can help avoid hazards, prevent accidents,
manage crises, and reduce insurance costs across the value chain.
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As insurers grapple with disruptions to their business
model, those that successsfully employ crowdsourcing
and other flexible working models can position
themselves at the forefront of innovation.
COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE: FILLING THE INSURANCE TALENT GAP 5
Crowdsourced data can prove effective in the following scenarios:
>> Disaster preparedness: A crowdsourced seismic network can be a
great option for earthquake-prone countries that have little or no
ground-based seismic set-up or early-warning system, but do have mil-
lions of smartphone users.
>> Disaster recovery: The crowd can use smartphones to capture and
upload photos, and create street-level views of affected areas following
catastrophic events.
>> Accident alerts and assistance: Applications are available to source
real-time traffic and accident data and send location-specific alerts
from the crowd. Gaming techniques can motivate users to accelerate
emergency assistance and claims investigation.
Robotic Processes/Automated Intelligence
Automated intelligence refers to machines that perform simple jobs; those that
“think” and handle judgment-oriented tasks; and those that “learn” the context
and adapt. (For more on this topic, see our Cognizanti journal article, “Intelligent
Automation: Where We Stand and Where We’re Going.”)
To get the most out of automated intelligence, insurers should ask themselves the
following questions:
•	Can bottom-line improvements result from automating rules-driven business
processes? Robotic process automation (RPA) works best for insurance
processes that are repetitive and rules-driven. FTE units (equivalent employees
working full-time) can be reduced significantly, and savings realized across front
and back-office functions. For instance, our OptimaWrite|Intake9
automates the
task of extracting and validating data. This eliminates cumbersome manual
processes, streamlines the submission intake process from all document types
and formats, and automatically prioritizes (triages) insurance-related tasks. In
fact, users have reported 50% to 80% reductions in turnaround time, 60%
reductions in costs, and 92% accuracy in data extraction.
•	Can automation generate more value by applying advanced cognitive capa-
bilities? The potential benefits of using artificial intelligence and cognitive
computing for insurers extend far beyond cost reduction through automation.
These capabilities can streamline risk selection, improve decision making, drive
better outcomes, and provide a platform for developing innovative offerings that
can increase market share and add more value to the brand. For example, Swiss
Re10
is working to improve how it assesses life insurance risk by engaging IBM’s
artificial intelligence system, Watson – a move that could have a positive impact
on the group’s Australian profit margins amid tough business conditions. The
initiative will require Swiss Re to feed an enormous amount of medical data into
Watson’s cognitive computing system. Watson will then extract the company’s
data and underwriting platforms to generate highly accurate, risk-related data
and inform underwriters’ decisions.
•	Can automation improve customer engagement through chatbots and robo
advisors? Having taken the wealth management industry by storm, robo advisors
have now staked their claim in the insurance field. These smart machines can
simulate human behavior to attract customers, or function as an automated
advisor to appropriately guide a client. Another trend is to engage customers
via chatbots, which provide a digital chat experience that replicates a human
conversation. Insurers now sell policies through mobile chat applications –
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eliminating the need for associates to fill in long forms, and providing customers
with contextual advice on products and services. Alternately, companies can
use customer service bots as an additional “friend” on one of many messaging
platforms, such as WhatsApp, without the need to download another app.
(For more on this trend, read, “WhatsApp Insurance? Shouldn’t WeChat?”.)
Productivity Enhancements, Compliments of Robo Employees
Robo employees can augment the talent of in-house personnel, and increase their
productivity significantly. Figure 2 summarizes likely roles for robo employees in
the future workplace.
Robo
Analysts
Robo
Assistants
Robo
Specialists
Back-Office Assistance
• Data collection, cleansing,
extraction and
normalization.
• Rules-driven and
administration tasks (e.g.,
straight through processing for
new business).
• Automated business processes
(e.g., automated adjustment for
small claims).
Front-Office Customer
Engagement
• Robo advisors: automated,
personalized advice.
Back-Office Assistance:
• Anomaly detection
• Flag fraud indicators.
• Flag subrogation
Indicators.
• Decision support
• Predictive and prescriptive
analytics.
• Automated estimates for
image analytics.
• Knowledge management:
• Clone expert knowledge.
• Training & development
• Train and onboard new
hires.
Front-Office Customer
Service
• Robo customer service
representatives (CSRs): chatbots
or virtual assistants to replace
front desk personnel.
• Robo agents: pre-fill quote, bind
policies.
• Suggest next best actions.
• Contextualize alerts and
reminders.
Back-Office Assistance
• Robo underwriting assistants:
provide context-sensitive
intelligence for risk assessment;
aid in informed decision making.
• Robo claim handlers: assist
adjusters in assimilating
contextual data for inspecting
claims; aid in quicker settlement.
Field Assistance:
• Unmanned aerial vehicles for
claims inspection.
• Mini-physical robots for claims
inspection.
Robos on the Horizon
Figure 2
COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE: FILLING THE INSURANCE TALENT GAP 7
Consider this: A British teenager recently created a robo lawyer11
to help individu-
als seeking legal advice. The robot, which works in chat mode, can handle parking
ticket appeals, payment protection insurance (PPI) claims, and claims related to
delayed flights or trains. Legal and arbitrator bots could prove transformational in
addressing concrete queries (clarifying state laws, calculating accident compensa-
tions, handling coverage disputes, for example) and expediting claims settlement.
Likewise, a robo doctor could be valuable in providing medical assistance during
emergency situations and rehabilitation, especially for workers’ compensation or
disability claims.
Leveraging Collective Intelligence
Instead of viewing the crowd and robotic intelligence as separate entities, companies
should keep in mind Aristotle’s saying, “The sum is greater than the whole of its
parts.” Following are some scenarios where the crowd and robots can combine
forces to yield better business results for insurers.
Screening New Applications
It takes a lot of time to screen new business applications, particularly in the life
insurance and annuities industry, where policy application forms are typically hand-
written. Bots lack accuracy when it comes to extracting data from these formats,
something at which humans excel. To increase overall process efficiency, bots rely
on machine-learning algorithms to conduct a first pass on handwritten forms. Data
is divided into discrete chunks so that individual elements do not reveal meaning
without the overall context. A handful of crowdsourced workers can then verify
every single piece of data. The bot reassembles the pieces into a complete data set,
which is fed into the core system for further processing. This accelerates turnaround
time, reduces labor cost, and helps ensure that the information is accurate.
Assessing Property Damage
In the wake of natural calamities such as floods and earthquakes, property damages
must be accurately assessed by claims adjusters prior to bringing in emergency
assistance services. Robots can be invaluable in these situations, due to their ability
to process large volumes of data. At the same time, their image-recognition capabili-
ties are limited. Robots with deep learning abilities can take the first step in capturing
aerial or satellite imagery, then slice the images into discrete data chunks. During
an event, crowdsourced volunteers can analyze the image chunks and annotate the
nature of damages. As more data sets are fed back to them, bots can learn to better
identify significant patterns. Apart from image analytics, the crowd can help with
translating, geocoding and categorizing emergency text messages or tweets. This
can dramatically improve crisis management and expedite claims settlement.
Detecting Fraudulent Claims
Some employees fake injuries when claiming workers’ compensation. Bots can do
a fair job in flagging fraudulent patterns by scanning text data captured from claim
forms, witness comments, and adjuster notes. Images and videos posted by claimants
on social media can be an additional source for identifying fraud. Given bots’ limita-
tions in analyzing images, the crowd can help decipher conflicting patterns that could
indicate a claimant might be indulging in risky activities while undergoing rehabilita-
tion for a work-related injury or illness. This can help carriers detect fraud earlier in
the process and minimize unnecessary claims payouts.
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Quick Take
Jim is an auto insurance customer. His car has a
minor collision with another vehicle. Jim chats with
the adjuster bot installed in his messenger app. The
bot offers Jim accident assistance and registers the
first notice of loss. Jim then shares the images of the
damaged parts from his smartphone.
The bot requests that Jim voice-record his account
of the entire incident. Once Jim obliges, the bot tran-
scribes the audio file and flags the case for subroga-
tion. The bot uses image analytics to comprehend the
nature and extent of damages, but faces a challenge
in deciphering whether the damages occurred at the
rear or front angle. It posts the images to the crowd,
which is invited to participate in a gamification-based
exercise to help in the damage-assessment process.
In the first lap of the game, the crowd identifies and
makes note of the damaged parts of the vehicle.
During the next lap, they assess whether the damages
are consistent with the report. In the final lap, the
crowd decides if the impact of the collision caused
the damage. Gamification techniques assure that the
crowd is unaware of the identities of the individuals
involved in the accident, and that the confidentiality
of information is preserved. The bot learns from this
process, and fine-tunes its image analytics skills so it
can continually increase its accuracy in evaluating the
cause and nature of vehicle-related damages.
Collective Intelligence: A Look Over the Not-Too-Distant Horizon
Shifting from Static to Dynamic Pricing
Data is fundamental to developing actuarial tables. Here, insurance companies have
traditionally relied on historical data. Predictive models that actuaries use to gauge
rates can fall short when assessing newer types of risk exposures (lifestyles, cyber
risks) brought about by an increasingly connected world. Real-time data captured
by crowd sources via wearables, mobile devices and social apps can provide
valuable insight into consumers’ purchase behaviors, spending patterns, life events,
lifestyles, and other risk factors. These massive data sets can “train” bots to update
their models (i.e., systems that learn) on an ongoing basis – resulting in fine-grained
segmentation and dynamic, non-linear models for predictive analytics. This training
model can help improve pricing accuracy and loss predictions while increasing prof-
itability.
Tracking Customer Sentiments
Social media and other public forums where consumers can express their satisfac-
tion or grievances with insurance services offer a treasure trove of data. Bots use
advanced data mining and analytics to gauge customer sentiments on a vast scale.
Nonetheless, their accuracy is typically far below that of trained humans, particu-
larly in analyzing opinions and understanding the ever-evolving catch phrases on
social media. Bots can distribute these large data sets to crowdsourced resources to
help remove “noise” and facilitate further analysis. Alternatively, if accuracy levels
are low, bots can do a first pass, then turn to crowd services to add the metadata
(labeling and prioritizing messages and understanding their innate sentiment).
This helps improve sentiment tracking, and provides important input for devising
strategies to engage and retain customers.
COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE: FILLING THE INSURANCE TALENT GAP 9
Reimagining the Insurance Workforce
By the end of this decade, the insurance industry will likely face a talent crisis
fueled by retiring baby boomers and millennials’ perception that insurance is not
an attractive career option. Using collective intelligence, insurers can address the
skills deficit while increasing workforce productivity. For example, underwriters can
dip into this resource pool to better assess risks. Likewise, adjusters can better
evaluate loss information to settle claims earlier and use retiring professionals’
knowledge bank to train new hires. These capabilities allow personnel to focus on
tasks that involve intuitive, strategic decision making and innovative thinking that
are beyond the scope of bots and most crowdsourced resources.
The key lies in dividing larger, complex tasks into simpler chunks of work that can
be routed on demand to the crowd and robots, which work in tandem with in-house
employees in ways that are imperceptible to customers.
Barriers to Adoption
Quality Considerations
•	Assigning Work: It can be challenging to identify the best source — in-house
employees, crowdsourced resources, or bots – to handle a specific task and de-
liver consistent output. This can become even more complex when they work in
parallel, or combine their individual results. In addition, if a large volume of work
is divided into smaller chunks for crowdsourcing, it could become extremely dif-
ficult to manage the process. While artificial intelligence and cognitive technolo-
gies have enabled bots to shift from rules-driven interactions to conversational
interactions in natural language, challenges remain as far as interpreting images
with accuracy.
•	Mitigating Risk: Not all tasks are suited to collective intelligence. It’s important
to analyze the merit of the work and route individual work to the right source. For
instance, crowdsourced tasks should be less business-critical and executed with-
out impacting expected outcomes. For advanced cognitive tasks, manual inter-
vention is preferred, since it allows machines to continually learn from humans
and improve the accuracy of their work.
Behavioral Considerations
•	The Human Touch: Although technology is maturing by the day, bots still lack
the human touch in sensitive situations involving loss of life or property. An in-
different or awkward response could have serious repercussions, and severely
impact a customers’ perception of the insurer. Likewise, a crowdsourced resource
might lack the skills to handle delicate situations.
•	Understanding Context: In addition to teaching bots functional tasks, it is criti-
cal that they understand context and respond accordingly. The bots must adapt
to geographical and cultural settings while simulating the responses of a human.
Likewise, the crowd should be motivated by incentives to complete tasks on time.
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Compliance, Legal & Ethical Considerations
•	Assuring Appropriate Actions: Insurance organizations are subject to strin-
gent regulatory requirements. They are largely averse to involving crowdsourced
resources in core tasks that require a high degree of specialization, such as rec-
ommending appropriate coverages or investigating claims. Data security and
privacy are also concern.
•	Mitigation: Organizations can involve the crowd in activities that do not require
specialized skills or regulatory controls. Independent contractors/freelancers
can be a viable alternative for tasks requiring specific abilities, such as appraisal
or estimation. Businesses should train their robo employees on their code of
ethics and laws of the land. Carriers must continuously evaluate the quality of
services provided by robo employees to ensure that these systems learn, adapt,
and interact with humans appropriately.
Looking Ahead
Collective intelligence that combines the skills and efforts of in-house employees,
the crowd and robots can help insurance organizations improve overall per-
formance at less cost, and remain ready to meet the changing demands of
consumers. Applying collective intelligence in the future workplace will no doubt
present insurance companies with significant challenges in respect to acceptance,
adoption, and compliance. We thus advise insurers to take the following actions:
•	Identify low-hanging fruit. While collective intelligence might not be suited to
all business processes, insurers can get a head start by focusing on tasks where
humans are the primary agent and the robot supports or augments them. The
crowd and bots can help primary stakeholders, such as insurance advisors or un-
derwriters, carry out non-critical tasks that are part of their day-to-day job and
that tend to be monotonous, rules-driven, and repetitive. (i.e., information gath-
ering, data validation, data extraction, data consolidation and report genera-
tion). This enables advisors and underwriters to direct their efforts on areas that
will bring the most value to the company and its customers (advising customers
on coverage options that best suit their needs; making informed decisions when
dealing with complex applications).
•	Experiment with small pilots in-house. Integrating collective intelligence into
the enterprise requires gaining the acceptance key stakeholders within and out-
side the company. Insurance organizations should start small – conducting pilots
to increase the effectiveness of existing business processes without disrupt-
ing or transforming them completely. For example, outside data scientists can
be useful in developing predictive models to analyze the patterns of historical
data, better match price to exposure, or tailor coverages. This can improve the
decision-making process without disrupting existing models used in day-to-day
business. Down the road, these insights can help train systems to adjust as the
Carriers must continuously evaluate the quality of
services provided by robo employees to ensure that
these systems learn, adapt, and interact with humans
appropriately.
COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE: FILLING THE INSURANCE TALENT GAP 11
variables change, and provide recommendations that are prescriptive in nature.
We suggest that carriers conduct trials that involve new business models or pro-
cess transformation, with the crowd and bots working in tandem (launching lines
of business or products in a new geography on a small scale, with no effect on
the larger scheme of operations). Insurers can also start with employee-facing
initiatives that act as productivity enhancers, then repurpose and extend proven
capabilities for customer-facing initiatives.
•	Fail fast and learn quickly. Work sourced from the crowd can be a double-edged
sword, equally capable of diminishing the quality of the output or failing to ad-
here to compliance requirements. Because most algorithms are for general pur-
poses, bots must be trained to apply extensive, domain-specific knowledge and
contextual data that a carrier has assembled over time to produce positive busi-
ness outcomes. This can help insurers assess if collective intelligence serves
the intended purpose; for example, increasing the throughput or efficiency of
an overall business process while remaining compliant with industry regulations.
The success of these “trial runs“ can also help garner the support needed for
wider adoption.
•	Repurpose talent. While there are concerns that bots could soon displace hu-
man talent, technological advancements have helped humans work more ef-
fectively and create demand for their unique skillsets. By embracing collective
intelligence, insurers can enable in-house employees to focus more on creating
business value in the roles they perform, which can lead to higher job satisfac-
tion. Using the crowd and bots’ artificial intelligence can also help overcome se-
vere talent shortages, augment in-house capabilities, heighten productivity, keep
margins slim, and drive profitable growth.
As the insurance industry works to address its significant talent gap during the
next three to five years, collective intelligence is the way forward – particularly for
companies looking to attract and retain a fully engaged, future-ready workforce.
Insurers can start with employee-facing
initiatives that act as productivity enhancers,
then repurpose and extend proven capabilities
for customer-facing initiatives.
Work sourced from the crowd can be a double-edged
sword, equally capable of diminishing the quality of the
output or failing to adhere to compliance requirements.
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About the Authors
Shyam Sundar Nagarajan is a Chief Architect and Technology Evangelist with the
Cognizant InsuranceNext team within the Cognizant Insurance Practice. He has
over 16 years of experience architecting and executing enterprise legacy mod-
ernization projects, and provides business-technology consulting to insurance
carriers. His current focus areas include envisioning the future of work for insurers
with redefined application architecture. Shyam can be reached at ShyamSundar.
Nagarajan@cognizant.com | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sundarns.
Akila Narayanan is a Senior Manager with the Cognizant InsuranceNext team
within the Cognizant Insurance Practice. She has over 14 years of experience
managing complex and strategic projects for insurers. Her current focus areas
include envisioning the future of work for insurers through the application of
emerging technologies to deliver enhanced business value. Akila can be reached at
Akila.Narayanan@cognizant.com | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/akila-
narayanan/46/27b/403.
Footnotes
1	 https://www.upwork.com/press/2015/10/01/freelancers-union-and-upwork-release-new-study-revealing-
insights-into-the-almost-54-million-people-freelancing-in-america/.
2	 http://www.propertycasualty360.com/2015/08/07/7-things-the-insurance-industry-needs-to-know-abou.
3	 http://www.oxfordeconomics.com/publication/open/250945.
4	 http://riskandinsurance.com/talent-crisis-remains-challenge/.
5	 Ibid.
6	 http://www.mas.gov.sg/News-and-Publications/Media-Releases/2016/Inaugural-Singapore-FinTech-
Festival-to-be-held-in-November-2016.aspx.
7	 http://www.mas.gov.sg/News-and-Publications/Media-Releases/2016/MAS-Proposes-a-Regulatory-
Sandbox-for-FinTech-Experiments.aspx.
8	 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaggle.
9	 https://www.cognizant.com/InsightsWhitepapers/optimawrite-Intake.pdf.
10	 http://www.afr.com/technology/swiss-re-brings-ibms-watson-to-australian-life-insurance-20151207-gl-
h34n.
11	 http://mashable.com/2016/01/13/british-teenager-creates-robot-lawyer/#GWbKadYbhOqK.
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Collective Intelligence: Filling the Insurance Talent Gap

  • 1. Collective Intelligence: Filling the Insurance Talent Gap By combining the skills of full-time employees, intelligent machines and specialized external resources, carriers can overcome talent deficits, reduce overhead, maintain compliance, and bolster overall performance.
  • 2. 2 KEEP CHALLENGING February 20172 KEEP CHALLENGING February 2017 Executive Summary According to the Freelancers Union,1 nearly 54 million Americans — 34% of the country’s total workforce — work independently. This number is expected to increase, compelling employers across industries to source specialized skills from virtually anywhere without expanding their full- time staff. Along with this trend, the use of robots – though not new to workplace environments – is predicted to grow exponentially, and have a greater impact on how businesses operate and compete. Combining the talent of in-house personnel, intelligent machines, and external resources can close skills gaps and reduce overhead. This is especially relevant in the insurance industry, where 25% of employees are expected to retire by 2018.2 By utilizing the collective intelligence of in-house workers, independent contractors, consortiums, and internal robots (bots), insurers can resolve complex business challenges, perform specialized functions in less time, and create predictive models that precisely classify risks. Assigning machines to handle repetitive, high-volume tasks can heighten overall productivity while accommodating heavier workloads – all at a fraction of the cost (and time) it would take full-time employees to perform these functions. This white paper discusses how collective intelligence can help insurers optimize the knowledge and capabilities of employees, machines, and external talent; assure that standards and practices remain consistent; improve decision making, and distinguish their brand.
  • 3. COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE: FILLING THE INSURANCE TALENT GAP 3COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE: FILLING THE INSURANCE TALENT GAP 3 What is Collective Intelligence? Collective intelligence combines the power of human and automated capabilities (see Figure 1). In this paper, human intelligence refers to the knowledge and skills of in-house salaried employees and specialized resources outside the company. Automated intelligence pertains to artificial intelligence software that replicates some functions that humans perform. Employee Intelligence Knowledge & skills of in-house salaried employees. Robotic/ Automated Intelligence Computers capable of replicating many human skills. Crowd-Sourced Intelligence Collective knowledge & skills from external groups. Collective intelligence tasks are designated as follows: • Humans primary, bots secondary: The human is the primary owner of a process- related task, and delegates the sub-tasks with scope for robotic process automation. • Robots primary, humans secondary: The robot is the principal owner of a process/ task; refers sub-tasks that require advanced cognitive abilities to a human. • Humans and bots work in distinct roles: A task requires both artificial intelligence (machine or software automation handled by the bot) and human intelligence. • Human and bot work in tandem: The task requires a person and a bot to share the workload. They work in concert to deliver consistent results that make it difficult to distinguish their roles. Figure 1
  • 4. Crowdsourcing The Oxford Economics Workforce 2020 Report3 found that a hefty 83% of executives increasingly rely on consultants, intermittent employees, or contingent workers. (For more on this topic, read “Jumping on the Gig Economy” in the Cognizanti journal.) This “crowd” can perform a variety of tasks, with incentives that can vary depending on the nature of the work. For insurers, crowdsourcing talent is primarily driven by four objectives: • Overcome skill shortages. A large percentage of the insurance workforce will begin to reach retirement age over the next few years. McKinsey & Company reports that by 2018, more than a quarter of the insurance workforce will be nearing retirement, while according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, less than a third of insurance employees are under the age of 35.4 The Insurance Informa- tion Institute (The III) projects there will be at least 400,000 open positions in insurance by the year 2020,5 and there are fewer takers. Crowdsourcing can help resolve this dilemma. • Develop innovative products and services. Crowdsourcing can be extremely effective in identifying business/technology issues and for experimenting with new solutions. For instance, Monetary Authority of Singapore6 (MAS), which provides regulatory oversight across the country’s financial services industry, has invited fintech firms worldwide to submit ideas and design solutions for 100 problem statements that were originally crowdsourced from the industry and the public. Participants will be able to try out cutting-edge fintech solutions in a regulatory sandbox environment7 and relax specific regulatory requirements within a stipulated time frame. • Solve complex challenges at a lower cost. Insurers can access their collective resources online or through local channels. Members of the crowd perform non-core or specialized tasks, such as predicting the factors that influence policyholders’ decisions, or identifying and classifying risk. Those that success- fully employ crowdsourcing and other flexible working models can position themselves at the forefront of innovation. For example, Kaggle,8 a platform for predictive modeling and analytics, conducts contests to source predictive models from data scientists worldwide. Insurers such as Allstate, State Farm, Liberty Mutual and Prudential have utilized crowdsourcing to develop predictive models for accurately classifying risk, tailoring coverage accordingly, or predicting a customer’s purchase patterns. • Create a better value proposition. Crowdsourcing can rapidly generate real-time data that can be shared across the crowd. The data can concern the crowd itself, or pertain to business initiatives/processes. Insurers can analyze and process it quickly, enabling them to provide timely, highly accurate information that can help avoid hazards, prevent accidents, manage crises, and reduce insurance costs across the value chain. 4 KEEP CHALLENGING February 2017 As insurers grapple with disruptions to their business model, those that successsfully employ crowdsourcing and other flexible working models can position themselves at the forefront of innovation.
  • 5. COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE: FILLING THE INSURANCE TALENT GAP 5 Crowdsourced data can prove effective in the following scenarios: >> Disaster preparedness: A crowdsourced seismic network can be a great option for earthquake-prone countries that have little or no ground-based seismic set-up or early-warning system, but do have mil- lions of smartphone users. >> Disaster recovery: The crowd can use smartphones to capture and upload photos, and create street-level views of affected areas following catastrophic events. >> Accident alerts and assistance: Applications are available to source real-time traffic and accident data and send location-specific alerts from the crowd. Gaming techniques can motivate users to accelerate emergency assistance and claims investigation. Robotic Processes/Automated Intelligence Automated intelligence refers to machines that perform simple jobs; those that “think” and handle judgment-oriented tasks; and those that “learn” the context and adapt. (For more on this topic, see our Cognizanti journal article, “Intelligent Automation: Where We Stand and Where We’re Going.”) To get the most out of automated intelligence, insurers should ask themselves the following questions: • Can bottom-line improvements result from automating rules-driven business processes? Robotic process automation (RPA) works best for insurance processes that are repetitive and rules-driven. FTE units (equivalent employees working full-time) can be reduced significantly, and savings realized across front and back-office functions. For instance, our OptimaWrite|Intake9 automates the task of extracting and validating data. This eliminates cumbersome manual processes, streamlines the submission intake process from all document types and formats, and automatically prioritizes (triages) insurance-related tasks. In fact, users have reported 50% to 80% reductions in turnaround time, 60% reductions in costs, and 92% accuracy in data extraction. • Can automation generate more value by applying advanced cognitive capa- bilities? The potential benefits of using artificial intelligence and cognitive computing for insurers extend far beyond cost reduction through automation. These capabilities can streamline risk selection, improve decision making, drive better outcomes, and provide a platform for developing innovative offerings that can increase market share and add more value to the brand. For example, Swiss Re10 is working to improve how it assesses life insurance risk by engaging IBM’s artificial intelligence system, Watson – a move that could have a positive impact on the group’s Australian profit margins amid tough business conditions. The initiative will require Swiss Re to feed an enormous amount of medical data into Watson’s cognitive computing system. Watson will then extract the company’s data and underwriting platforms to generate highly accurate, risk-related data and inform underwriters’ decisions. • Can automation improve customer engagement through chatbots and robo advisors? Having taken the wealth management industry by storm, robo advisors have now staked their claim in the insurance field. These smart machines can simulate human behavior to attract customers, or function as an automated advisor to appropriately guide a client. Another trend is to engage customers via chatbots, which provide a digital chat experience that replicates a human conversation. Insurers now sell policies through mobile chat applications –
  • 6. 6 KEEP CHALLENGING February 2017 eliminating the need for associates to fill in long forms, and providing customers with contextual advice on products and services. Alternately, companies can use customer service bots as an additional “friend” on one of many messaging platforms, such as WhatsApp, without the need to download another app. (For more on this trend, read, “WhatsApp Insurance? Shouldn’t WeChat?”.) Productivity Enhancements, Compliments of Robo Employees Robo employees can augment the talent of in-house personnel, and increase their productivity significantly. Figure 2 summarizes likely roles for robo employees in the future workplace. Robo Analysts Robo Assistants Robo Specialists Back-Office Assistance • Data collection, cleansing, extraction and normalization. • Rules-driven and administration tasks (e.g., straight through processing for new business). • Automated business processes (e.g., automated adjustment for small claims). Front-Office Customer Engagement • Robo advisors: automated, personalized advice. Back-Office Assistance: • Anomaly detection • Flag fraud indicators. • Flag subrogation Indicators. • Decision support • Predictive and prescriptive analytics. • Automated estimates for image analytics. • Knowledge management: • Clone expert knowledge. • Training & development • Train and onboard new hires. Front-Office Customer Service • Robo customer service representatives (CSRs): chatbots or virtual assistants to replace front desk personnel. • Robo agents: pre-fill quote, bind policies. • Suggest next best actions. • Contextualize alerts and reminders. Back-Office Assistance • Robo underwriting assistants: provide context-sensitive intelligence for risk assessment; aid in informed decision making. • Robo claim handlers: assist adjusters in assimilating contextual data for inspecting claims; aid in quicker settlement. Field Assistance: • Unmanned aerial vehicles for claims inspection. • Mini-physical robots for claims inspection. Robos on the Horizon Figure 2
  • 7. COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE: FILLING THE INSURANCE TALENT GAP 7 Consider this: A British teenager recently created a robo lawyer11 to help individu- als seeking legal advice. The robot, which works in chat mode, can handle parking ticket appeals, payment protection insurance (PPI) claims, and claims related to delayed flights or trains. Legal and arbitrator bots could prove transformational in addressing concrete queries (clarifying state laws, calculating accident compensa- tions, handling coverage disputes, for example) and expediting claims settlement. Likewise, a robo doctor could be valuable in providing medical assistance during emergency situations and rehabilitation, especially for workers’ compensation or disability claims. Leveraging Collective Intelligence Instead of viewing the crowd and robotic intelligence as separate entities, companies should keep in mind Aristotle’s saying, “The sum is greater than the whole of its parts.” Following are some scenarios where the crowd and robots can combine forces to yield better business results for insurers. Screening New Applications It takes a lot of time to screen new business applications, particularly in the life insurance and annuities industry, where policy application forms are typically hand- written. Bots lack accuracy when it comes to extracting data from these formats, something at which humans excel. To increase overall process efficiency, bots rely on machine-learning algorithms to conduct a first pass on handwritten forms. Data is divided into discrete chunks so that individual elements do not reveal meaning without the overall context. A handful of crowdsourced workers can then verify every single piece of data. The bot reassembles the pieces into a complete data set, which is fed into the core system for further processing. This accelerates turnaround time, reduces labor cost, and helps ensure that the information is accurate. Assessing Property Damage In the wake of natural calamities such as floods and earthquakes, property damages must be accurately assessed by claims adjusters prior to bringing in emergency assistance services. Robots can be invaluable in these situations, due to their ability to process large volumes of data. At the same time, their image-recognition capabili- ties are limited. Robots with deep learning abilities can take the first step in capturing aerial or satellite imagery, then slice the images into discrete data chunks. During an event, crowdsourced volunteers can analyze the image chunks and annotate the nature of damages. As more data sets are fed back to them, bots can learn to better identify significant patterns. Apart from image analytics, the crowd can help with translating, geocoding and categorizing emergency text messages or tweets. This can dramatically improve crisis management and expedite claims settlement. Detecting Fraudulent Claims Some employees fake injuries when claiming workers’ compensation. Bots can do a fair job in flagging fraudulent patterns by scanning text data captured from claim forms, witness comments, and adjuster notes. Images and videos posted by claimants on social media can be an additional source for identifying fraud. Given bots’ limita- tions in analyzing images, the crowd can help decipher conflicting patterns that could indicate a claimant might be indulging in risky activities while undergoing rehabilita- tion for a work-related injury or illness. This can help carriers detect fraud earlier in the process and minimize unnecessary claims payouts.
  • 8. 8 KEEP CHALLENGING February 2017 Quick Take Jim is an auto insurance customer. His car has a minor collision with another vehicle. Jim chats with the adjuster bot installed in his messenger app. The bot offers Jim accident assistance and registers the first notice of loss. Jim then shares the images of the damaged parts from his smartphone. The bot requests that Jim voice-record his account of the entire incident. Once Jim obliges, the bot tran- scribes the audio file and flags the case for subroga- tion. The bot uses image analytics to comprehend the nature and extent of damages, but faces a challenge in deciphering whether the damages occurred at the rear or front angle. It posts the images to the crowd, which is invited to participate in a gamification-based exercise to help in the damage-assessment process. In the first lap of the game, the crowd identifies and makes note of the damaged parts of the vehicle. During the next lap, they assess whether the damages are consistent with the report. In the final lap, the crowd decides if the impact of the collision caused the damage. Gamification techniques assure that the crowd is unaware of the identities of the individuals involved in the accident, and that the confidentiality of information is preserved. The bot learns from this process, and fine-tunes its image analytics skills so it can continually increase its accuracy in evaluating the cause and nature of vehicle-related damages. Collective Intelligence: A Look Over the Not-Too-Distant Horizon Shifting from Static to Dynamic Pricing Data is fundamental to developing actuarial tables. Here, insurance companies have traditionally relied on historical data. Predictive models that actuaries use to gauge rates can fall short when assessing newer types of risk exposures (lifestyles, cyber risks) brought about by an increasingly connected world. Real-time data captured by crowd sources via wearables, mobile devices and social apps can provide valuable insight into consumers’ purchase behaviors, spending patterns, life events, lifestyles, and other risk factors. These massive data sets can “train” bots to update their models (i.e., systems that learn) on an ongoing basis – resulting in fine-grained segmentation and dynamic, non-linear models for predictive analytics. This training model can help improve pricing accuracy and loss predictions while increasing prof- itability. Tracking Customer Sentiments Social media and other public forums where consumers can express their satisfac- tion or grievances with insurance services offer a treasure trove of data. Bots use advanced data mining and analytics to gauge customer sentiments on a vast scale. Nonetheless, their accuracy is typically far below that of trained humans, particu- larly in analyzing opinions and understanding the ever-evolving catch phrases on social media. Bots can distribute these large data sets to crowdsourced resources to help remove “noise” and facilitate further analysis. Alternatively, if accuracy levels are low, bots can do a first pass, then turn to crowd services to add the metadata (labeling and prioritizing messages and understanding their innate sentiment). This helps improve sentiment tracking, and provides important input for devising strategies to engage and retain customers.
  • 9. COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE: FILLING THE INSURANCE TALENT GAP 9 Reimagining the Insurance Workforce By the end of this decade, the insurance industry will likely face a talent crisis fueled by retiring baby boomers and millennials’ perception that insurance is not an attractive career option. Using collective intelligence, insurers can address the skills deficit while increasing workforce productivity. For example, underwriters can dip into this resource pool to better assess risks. Likewise, adjusters can better evaluate loss information to settle claims earlier and use retiring professionals’ knowledge bank to train new hires. These capabilities allow personnel to focus on tasks that involve intuitive, strategic decision making and innovative thinking that are beyond the scope of bots and most crowdsourced resources. The key lies in dividing larger, complex tasks into simpler chunks of work that can be routed on demand to the crowd and robots, which work in tandem with in-house employees in ways that are imperceptible to customers. Barriers to Adoption Quality Considerations • Assigning Work: It can be challenging to identify the best source — in-house employees, crowdsourced resources, or bots – to handle a specific task and de- liver consistent output. This can become even more complex when they work in parallel, or combine their individual results. In addition, if a large volume of work is divided into smaller chunks for crowdsourcing, it could become extremely dif- ficult to manage the process. While artificial intelligence and cognitive technolo- gies have enabled bots to shift from rules-driven interactions to conversational interactions in natural language, challenges remain as far as interpreting images with accuracy. • Mitigating Risk: Not all tasks are suited to collective intelligence. It’s important to analyze the merit of the work and route individual work to the right source. For instance, crowdsourced tasks should be less business-critical and executed with- out impacting expected outcomes. For advanced cognitive tasks, manual inter- vention is preferred, since it allows machines to continually learn from humans and improve the accuracy of their work. Behavioral Considerations • The Human Touch: Although technology is maturing by the day, bots still lack the human touch in sensitive situations involving loss of life or property. An in- different or awkward response could have serious repercussions, and severely impact a customers’ perception of the insurer. Likewise, a crowdsourced resource might lack the skills to handle delicate situations. • Understanding Context: In addition to teaching bots functional tasks, it is criti- cal that they understand context and respond accordingly. The bots must adapt to geographical and cultural settings while simulating the responses of a human. Likewise, the crowd should be motivated by incentives to complete tasks on time.
  • 10. 10 KEEP CHALLENGING February 2017 Compliance, Legal & Ethical Considerations • Assuring Appropriate Actions: Insurance organizations are subject to strin- gent regulatory requirements. They are largely averse to involving crowdsourced resources in core tasks that require a high degree of specialization, such as rec- ommending appropriate coverages or investigating claims. Data security and privacy are also concern. • Mitigation: Organizations can involve the crowd in activities that do not require specialized skills or regulatory controls. Independent contractors/freelancers can be a viable alternative for tasks requiring specific abilities, such as appraisal or estimation. Businesses should train their robo employees on their code of ethics and laws of the land. Carriers must continuously evaluate the quality of services provided by robo employees to ensure that these systems learn, adapt, and interact with humans appropriately. Looking Ahead Collective intelligence that combines the skills and efforts of in-house employees, the crowd and robots can help insurance organizations improve overall per- formance at less cost, and remain ready to meet the changing demands of consumers. Applying collective intelligence in the future workplace will no doubt present insurance companies with significant challenges in respect to acceptance, adoption, and compliance. We thus advise insurers to take the following actions: • Identify low-hanging fruit. While collective intelligence might not be suited to all business processes, insurers can get a head start by focusing on tasks where humans are the primary agent and the robot supports or augments them. The crowd and bots can help primary stakeholders, such as insurance advisors or un- derwriters, carry out non-critical tasks that are part of their day-to-day job and that tend to be monotonous, rules-driven, and repetitive. (i.e., information gath- ering, data validation, data extraction, data consolidation and report genera- tion). This enables advisors and underwriters to direct their efforts on areas that will bring the most value to the company and its customers (advising customers on coverage options that best suit their needs; making informed decisions when dealing with complex applications). • Experiment with small pilots in-house. Integrating collective intelligence into the enterprise requires gaining the acceptance key stakeholders within and out- side the company. Insurance organizations should start small – conducting pilots to increase the effectiveness of existing business processes without disrupt- ing or transforming them completely. For example, outside data scientists can be useful in developing predictive models to analyze the patterns of historical data, better match price to exposure, or tailor coverages. This can improve the decision-making process without disrupting existing models used in day-to-day business. Down the road, these insights can help train systems to adjust as the Carriers must continuously evaluate the quality of services provided by robo employees to ensure that these systems learn, adapt, and interact with humans appropriately.
  • 11. COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE: FILLING THE INSURANCE TALENT GAP 11 variables change, and provide recommendations that are prescriptive in nature. We suggest that carriers conduct trials that involve new business models or pro- cess transformation, with the crowd and bots working in tandem (launching lines of business or products in a new geography on a small scale, with no effect on the larger scheme of operations). Insurers can also start with employee-facing initiatives that act as productivity enhancers, then repurpose and extend proven capabilities for customer-facing initiatives. • Fail fast and learn quickly. Work sourced from the crowd can be a double-edged sword, equally capable of diminishing the quality of the output or failing to ad- here to compliance requirements. Because most algorithms are for general pur- poses, bots must be trained to apply extensive, domain-specific knowledge and contextual data that a carrier has assembled over time to produce positive busi- ness outcomes. This can help insurers assess if collective intelligence serves the intended purpose; for example, increasing the throughput or efficiency of an overall business process while remaining compliant with industry regulations. The success of these “trial runs“ can also help garner the support needed for wider adoption. • Repurpose talent. While there are concerns that bots could soon displace hu- man talent, technological advancements have helped humans work more ef- fectively and create demand for their unique skillsets. By embracing collective intelligence, insurers can enable in-house employees to focus more on creating business value in the roles they perform, which can lead to higher job satisfac- tion. Using the crowd and bots’ artificial intelligence can also help overcome se- vere talent shortages, augment in-house capabilities, heighten productivity, keep margins slim, and drive profitable growth. As the insurance industry works to address its significant talent gap during the next three to five years, collective intelligence is the way forward – particularly for companies looking to attract and retain a fully engaged, future-ready workforce. Insurers can start with employee-facing initiatives that act as productivity enhancers, then repurpose and extend proven capabilities for customer-facing initiatives. Work sourced from the crowd can be a double-edged sword, equally capable of diminishing the quality of the output or failing to adhere to compliance requirements.
  • 12. 12 KEEP CHALLENGING February 2017 About the Authors Shyam Sundar Nagarajan is a Chief Architect and Technology Evangelist with the Cognizant InsuranceNext team within the Cognizant Insurance Practice. He has over 16 years of experience architecting and executing enterprise legacy mod- ernization projects, and provides business-technology consulting to insurance carriers. His current focus areas include envisioning the future of work for insurers with redefined application architecture. Shyam can be reached at ShyamSundar. Nagarajan@cognizant.com | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sundarns. Akila Narayanan is a Senior Manager with the Cognizant InsuranceNext team within the Cognizant Insurance Practice. She has over 14 years of experience managing complex and strategic projects for insurers. Her current focus areas include envisioning the future of work for insurers through the application of emerging technologies to deliver enhanced business value. Akila can be reached at Akila.Narayanan@cognizant.com | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/akila- narayanan/46/27b/403. Footnotes 1 https://www.upwork.com/press/2015/10/01/freelancers-union-and-upwork-release-new-study-revealing- insights-into-the-almost-54-million-people-freelancing-in-america/. 2 http://www.propertycasualty360.com/2015/08/07/7-things-the-insurance-industry-needs-to-know-abou. 3 http://www.oxfordeconomics.com/publication/open/250945. 4 http://riskandinsurance.com/talent-crisis-remains-challenge/. 5 Ibid. 6 http://www.mas.gov.sg/News-and-Publications/Media-Releases/2016/Inaugural-Singapore-FinTech- Festival-to-be-held-in-November-2016.aspx. 7 http://www.mas.gov.sg/News-and-Publications/Media-Releases/2016/MAS-Proposes-a-Regulatory- Sandbox-for-FinTech-Experiments.aspx. 8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaggle. 9 https://www.cognizant.com/InsightsWhitepapers/optimawrite-Intake.pdf. 10 http://www.afr.com/technology/swiss-re-brings-ibms-watson-to-australian-life-insurance-20151207-gl- h34n. 11 http://mashable.com/2016/01/13/british-teenager-creates-robot-lawyer/#GWbKadYbhOqK.
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