Latest Productivity Headlines
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Insurance and Going Green
Nov 14 2010 // What to Know About Green Commercial Building Insurance Read the news lately and it feels like everything – from cars to grocery bags – has gone green. While recent events, such as 2009’s Copenhagen Climate Change...
3 Win Progressive Insurance X-Prize for Fuel Efficient Vehicles
Sep 17 2010 // An ultralight, gas-powered car that can get 102 miles per gallon is among the winners of the $10 million Automotive X Prize, a contest to develop highly efficient, production-ready vehicles. While it’s not likely to...
How To Use Compensation to Boost Sales
Aug 16 2010 // Al Diamond is one of the country’s best known agency management consultants. His firm, the Agency Consulting Group, is based in Cherry Hill, N.J. He deals with agencies across the country on issues ranging from...
How to Use Compensation to Boost Sales
Aug 16 2010 // Al Diamond is one of the country’s best known agency management consultants. His firm, the Agency Consulting Group, is based in Cherry Hill, N.J. He deals with agencies across the country on issues ranging from...
Progressive Insurance X-Car Race Coming Down to Finish Line
Jul 6 2010 // The team led by Charlottesville, Va. real estate developer Oliver Kuttner is the only one left in the running for the multimillion-dollar X Prize competition to build a four-seat car that can achieve 100 miles per...
The Agency Salary Blues: How to Keep Employees Happy
May 19 2010 // While slugglish agency salary growth has employees singing the blues, some agency management consultants believe employee satisfaction can be kept up even in tough times. One way agency owners can keep their employees...
How to Keep Employees Happy
Apr 19 2010 // One way that agency owners can keep their employees happy in today’s tough times is by making their compensation more accountable to agency growth. Al Diamond, president of the Agency Consulting Group, says in...
Green Building Movement Raises Some Construction Defect, Claims Concern
Apr 7 2010 // New insurance products to protect innovative green construction products such as wind turbines, fuel cells and vegetative roofs are on the rise. But even those closest to the situation admit to being a bit, well, green,...
Agencies Outsourcing to China to Reduce Backlogs, Free Up Resources
Mar 22 2010 // Gains Made By Offering Half-Price, Off-Hours, Highly-Efficient Back Office As more insurance agencies look for new ways to improve productivity and lower expenses, more owners and managers are investigating the potential...
Green Is Good, Right?
Mar 22 2010 // Insurers Monitoring Defects, Claims Tied to Green Building Products and Designs From wind turbines and fuel cells to vegetative roofs and bamboo surfaces, innovative green construction materials are showing up everywhere....
Counties with Levees Are Some of the Nation’s Most Economically Sound, Report Says
Jan 25 2010 // Hundreds of levees around the United States protect vulnerable areas and tens of millions of people from potentially devastating floods. Yet hardly anyone gives them a second thought until one is breached. The most glaring...
Report: Counties with Levees Are Among the Nation’s Most Economically Sound
Jan 24 2010 // Flooding Costs Are Outweighed by Regional Economic Benefits There are hundreds of levees around the United States that protect vulnerable areas and tens of millions of people from potentially devastating floods each year....
Report: Counties with Levees Are Among the Nation’s Most Economically Sound
Jan 24 2010 // Flooding Costs Are Outweighed by Regional Economic Benefits Hundreds of levees around the United States protect vulnerable areas and tens of millions of people from potentially devastating floods each year. Yet hardly...
Agencies Outsourcing to China to Reduce Backlogs, Free Up Resources
Nov 15 2009 // ReSource Pro Gains by Offering Half-Price, Off-Hours, Highly-Efficient Back Office As more insurance agencies look for new ways to improve productivity and lower expenses, more owners and managers are investigating the...
Agencies Outsourcing to China to Reduce Backlogs, Free Up Resources
Nov 15 2009 // ReSource Pro Gains By Offering Half-Price, Off-Hours, Highly-Efficient Back Office As more insurance agencies look for new ways to improve productivity and lower expenses, more owners and managers are investigating the...
How to Reinvigorate Producers and Other Employees Who Have Lost Their Spark or Become Too Comfortable
Oct 5 2009 // Incentive Compensation Should Focus on Customers not Premiums, Consultant Says Al Diamond is one of the country’s best known agency management consultants. His firm, the Agency Consulting Group, is based in Cherry...
Bank Insurance Program Productivity Up 12.5% in 2009
Sep 29 2009 // The production of insurance brokerage fee income per bank employee continued to rise through the first two quarters of 2009 to exceed year-end 2008 productivity by 12.5 percent, according to the Michael White-Prudential...
Text: Sen. Baucus Introduces to Senate Financial Committee Health Bill
Sep 16 2009 // The following announcment was released by the office of Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D,Mont.). Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D,Mont.) today introduced the America’s Healthy Future...
E&S Brokers Look for Rays of Light at the End of the Tunnel
Sep 7 2009 // Flat Economy, Persistent Soft Markets Have Forced Leaner Business Models, More Automation A poor economy, natural catastrophes and an extended soft market have all combined to nip growth in the excess and surplus lines...
How to Re-ignite Producers – and Other Employees – Who Have Lost Their Spark and become Too Comfortable
Aug 3 2009 // Incentive Compensation Focused on Customers, Not Premiums, Works, Consultant Says Al Diamond is one of the country’s best known agency management consultants. His firm, the Agency Consulting Group, is based in Cherry...
