CIO Magazine September CIO 100 Special Issue

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2012 Company Name:

ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company

Ram Kalyan Medury ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company

Industry:

BFSI Headquarters:

Mumbai In its continuous quest

to enhance its topline, bottom-line, and customer service, ICICI Lombard General Insurance turned to one of the most soughtafter, new technologies: Mobility. Ram Kalyan Medury, VP-technology, ICICI Lombard, launched an enterprise mobility initiative. With technology standards in enterprise mobility still nascent, the team experimented with various mobile platforms and technology before choosing the Android platform for internal enterprise mobility solutions. For end-consumer applications, it chose a hybrid approach (a mix of cross-platform

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and native development). This mix and match model enabled the quick roll out of apps to multiple platforms while the native model allowed rich user interaction for specific features that involved device hardware capabilities. The mobile initiative has made it easy for customers to buy or renew a policy, it has also ensured prompt customer service by making the claims process seamless. Claims personnel can use the mobile app to pull up their claim-case details, take pictures, tag them to various categories and complete the entire workflow on field, increasing their productivity by upto 30 to 40 percent.

Employees:

6,000 IT Team Internal:

100 MD and CEO:

Bhargav Dasgupta

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