Business Chief Europe Magazine May 2016 | Page 65

“ We are looking to simplify both our business and our application estate , for two reasons : one it helps with our cost efficiencies and two it is really a key enabler for digitising our business ” - Tim Skates
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“ We are looking to simplify both our business and our application estate , for two reasons : one it helps with our cost efficiencies and two it is really a key enabler for digitising our business ” - Tim Skates

provided them with a toolset which makes it much easier to collaborate across organisational boundaries ,” says Tim Skates . The point is that this new community is group wide , he continues . “ For example we have now a global claims community that are sharing insights round claims best practice . Where we have global clients we are really starting to build some global communities of expertise , and they are starting to share best practice , information , analytics with one another . The same is true within IT . I have a matrix team across the globe and we are sharing IT knowledge and expertise , making sure that we are implementing new solutions the right way and that these solutions are consistent wherever possible .” It saves a lot of duplicated effort too , as best practice is shared and refined collaboratively rather than trying to reinvent the wheel constantly .
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