"While it’s not entirely clear what comes next, even if we really are at the end of the beginning, it’s safe to say that we’re in a phase where rapid change is happening and big opportunities are in front of us. Although I’m far more likely to quote Churchill than Lenin, I think a Lenin quote pretty well summarizes what we’re going through: “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
Paul Carroll Editor-in-Chief Insurance Thought Leadership.com
Well thought through article on the end of the beginning of the pandemic and work-from-home (WFH) operating models.
Above all urges insurers to be agile and that in turn demands that technology partners are agile. Able to support changes in strategy and tactics, support the launch of new products and services in an iterative development mode and help insurers anticipate the future. And maybe even more helpfully- be able to turn direction fast when predictions proved short-lived
Over the past few weeks, as I’ve watched the developments in the pandemic and its repercussions in the global economy, I keep coming back to one of my favorite Winston Churchill quotes. It came in November 1942, after the Allies had won the Second Battle of El Alamein, setting them up to sweep German troops out of North Africa and starting to reverse the tide that had run so hard against the Allies for more than three years. Putting the victory in context, Churchill said, in his blunt way: “Now, this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
https://www.insurancethoughtleadership.com/covid-19-the-end-of-the-beginning/
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