An Interview with Mark Huxley & Matt Carter , Chairman & CEO, Cognitive Risk

 Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast where this week we are lucky enough to be joined by Matt Carter & Mark Huxley, co-founders of Cognitive Risk -  the strategic digital change consultancy focusing on insurance and technology which operates in the space where 'insur meets tech' and helps businesses get smarter.   

In this conversation we talk about:  

 - 'Smart insurance' - what does that mean to you? 

- Connecting smarter insurance  

- Reimagining the relationship with the customer and asking are you working in an environment where you have a quality relationship with the customer? 

- What can we do for the consumer? 

- Taking a new perspective on the conversation around insurance 

- The importance of understanding the values of your business  

- How Cognitive Risk seeks to become the connective glue between the thinkers, doers and executers 

- Facilitating and utilising existing technology  

- The technology is there so what are the challenges? 

- The inherent challenges which insurance faces due to time scales 

- How do you mitigate risk whilst being open-minded to new technologies?  

- How do you facilitate the use of existing technologies?  

- What are the more macro challenges? 

- The risk of going with the new unknown  

- And the benefits of the journey  

- Risk being paramount to everything 

- Insurance is not about trying to create a new process rather the challenge of shifting to adopt the new  

- The need for partnership is imperative  

- Corporate culture and understanding what innovation is going to look like inside your own organisation  

- Process thinking vs system thinking  

- The importance of micro-innovation 

- "The digital age is over, we are know in the intelligence age" 

- Insure Scale Up providing a support mechanism and providing a community space for those who want to improve the insurance   

Thank you Matt for your time, it was great to speak to you!   

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