a critical element . Pekin Insurance is a mid-sized company – but it has invested and pursued key product management principles such as user experience , design thinking , and a continued focus on agile practices and maturing those practices .
“ My vision is simply to take this to the next level , to create an organisational structure that really supports product management , introduces and fosters dedicated teams , and brings more empowerment and decision-making to those teams . This is all going to be done in concert with the business to ensure the creation of better partnerships and that we ' re solving the right business and customer problems with clear business outcomes in mind .”
Digital strategy and expansion Making core changes within any company is a challenging process . But Pekin Insurance is also driving an expansion strategy alongside a digital transformation . This means it is entering new marketplaces and creating new products and services while streamlining its internal operations . Bingham is enthused with the process and is clearly relishing the challenge .
“ It really is an exciting time at Pekin Insurance , because we are embarking on a multi-state geographic expansion , initially focusing on our commercial lines of business . Our first state expansion will go live later this year . We ' re implementing a repeatable process here in IT to continue to roll out additional states annually until we reach our expansion goals .
“ The Guidewire platform has well positioned us to quickly make the technology changes that are needed to enable this expansion . Additionally , ValueMomentum is our key integration
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