Business people as insurance intermediaries
want control of the internet interfaces to their businesses and essentially
do not like technology vendors dictating to them their own internet business model
strategy. The problem is very few insurance intermediaries in reality have control
of the internet interfaces to their business because of technology vendor
hegemony.
The solution is Vinsurance Insurance Intermediary Strategy - a new set of services for business people to leverage
for gaining or regaining control of their own Internet business model as insurance
intermediaries.
Vinsurance Insurance Intermediary Strategy are simple and efficient. It works by
effectively mapping technology vendors products and services to the insurance intermediaries
internet business model strategy and not the other way around.
The Vinsurance Insurance Intermediary Strategy solution is a reaction to the all
too common practice today of technology providers trying to dictate the insurance
intermediary's strategy. Red flags are "no problem, we host everything"
and "but, you own the data". Of course there are business situations when
using a 'third-party intermediary' web server powered online functionality
is temporarily useful, but use with caution. From an insurance intermediary point
of view, the risk is "lock-in" to that particular vendors internet business
model. In economics, it’s called ‘asset specificity’ and becomes an issue as it
is related to opportunity because of the non-redeployable nature of the arrangement.
The solution is for the intermediary to organize their own 'Business Services',
so to speak. It's relatively easy now to control the 'interfaces' to
these services. These interfaces are the new 'factors of production'.
Business flexibility and agility is about control of the internet 'user interface'
source code 'files' on the intermediary's own internal or external web
hosting account. That is, control the code specifically on an internet server which
is de-bundled from the technology provider / developer / consultants services -
as much as possible. The benefit is business control, flexibility and agility. This
makes sense even if the intermediary is planning on selling or merging it's
business. The Vinsurance Insurance Intermediary Strategy strategy adds value in
all business scenarios and it will become a crucial differentiator as Web services
and messaging capabilities around XML schema become simpler, modular and generally
easier to implement over time.
Toward this end, Vinsurance has business services in the form of insurance intermediary-specific
web
portal templates
:
- Simple Template
- Intermediate Template
- Advanced Template
'Simple Template’ is very basic
web site development services implemented on the insurance intermediary's own
web server account and customized with their value-added content .
‘Intermediate’ and ‘Advanced’ portal
template services are advanced, 'service-oriented', interactive data services
that build upon the Simple template and add value to the intermediary's business
model.
With each Vinsurance Insurance Intermediary
Strategy, the customer has 100% control of the user interface source code. Not only
does this strategy reduce costs, it increases new business sales because the individual
intermediary has the capability to exercise the flexibility and agility needed to
exploit new business opportunities as those opportunities present themselves and
not as they are presented by a technology vendor.
It’s easy to get started. Just send
an email message to
info@vinsurance.com
and ask about gaining or regaining control of the interfaces to your business.
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