For a high-performing culture, Insurance Companies need to shape employees’ “moments that matter”

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Organisational culture set to be one of the key competitive differentiators for insurance companies according to PwC’s newly released report

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04/07/2013 |
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    Mervyn Martins, Insurance partner, PwC Luxembourg. © 2013 PricewaterhouseCoopers, Société coopérative. All rights reserved.

With people around the world living longer and having more wealth to protect, insurers have a bright commercial future provided they can keep pace with the transformation in their marketplace. In a period of unrelenting change, culture can be your greatest ally or your biggest enemy. By actively shaping your organisation’s culture you can use it to your competitive advantage

Mervyn R. Martins, Insurance Partner, PwC Luxembourg

PwC believes that a high performing culture is set to be one of the keys to competitiveness for insurance companies in the new normal.

The new Report, “Insurance 2020: Unleashing the value from values”, finds that when there are so many economic, structural and market challenges to contend with, organisational culture can sometimes seem like an afterthought for many insurance companies. But to tackle these transformational issues most efficiently, a corresponding change in culture is required.

A more agile, innovative, risk-conscious and, critically a customer-centric culture, is set to be the primary competitive differentiator in the new business landscape. In order to produce real change and deliver real value, including differentiation in the marketplace, insurance companies must look at their people and the environment in which they operate. Moreover, while regulators were once reluctant to focus on culture of insurance businesses, it’s now at the top of their agenda as they seek to instil risk awareness and tighter safeguards for customers.

“With people around the world living longer and having more wealth to protect, insurers have a bright commercial future provided they can keep pace with the transformation in their marketplace. In a period of unrelenting change, culture can be your greatest ally or your biggest enemy. By actively shaping your organisation’s culture you can use it to your competitive advantage”, said Mervyn R. Martins, Insurance Partner, PwC Luxembourg.

The report also found that while many insurers are seeking to remodel their culture for the new market realities, most are only scratching the surface because they’re failing to translate their high level intentions into real changes in the way their people behave and make decisions. Communications and training alone won’t drive change.
Organisations must identify their employees’ most telling habits and routines (the 'moments that matter') and actively shape them. The key to achieving this are the five golden rules of a high performing culture:

  • Make sure your purpose, vision and values are clear, tangible and actionable
  • Identify and focus on the moments that matter and ensure a “client focus” awareness and attitude by all employees
  • Ensure active leadership and example from the top
  • Ensure active support and investment to bring all elements of the high performing culture together
  • Measure, feedback and adjust
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