Although it is a relatively new phenomenon, social media has become a vitally important component of human resources, marketing, customer services, and public relations. For insurers, social media can provide a continuous, interactive relationship ith the customer, with multiple opportunities to listen and to engage with individuals and communities in a highly personalized dialogue.
Indeed, the potential benefits of social media for insurers are compelling, and include:
- Enhancing the brand
- Reducing costs
- Influencing customer behaviour
- increasing customer satisfaction
- Increasing sales
- Supporting innovation
- Introducing new insurance products
Social media has the power to reshape the insurance industry, creating new points of differentiation and opening up new opportunities for leadership. Accenture believes the insurers that will be most successful in employing social media will those that view these initiatives as part of a comprehensive approach, rather than as a series of one-off programs.
To do so, however, many insurers will need to re-examine their current IT infrastructure�particularly legacy policy administration systems�to make sure that the capabilities are in place to support such initiatives at scale.
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