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Duncan primarily contributes to Forrester's offerings for Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals. He is a leading expert on software pricing and licensing and helps clients understand and address the effect of technology changes on software contracts. By researching enterprises' experience in dealing with large software vendors, including their negotiation successes and the problems they encountered later in the relationship, Duncan helps clients create and execute sound negotiation strategies and get advantageous software license and maintenance agreements.
He is also a leading expert on ePurchasing technologies, such as eProcurement, eSourcing, and electronic invoice presentment and payment (EIPP), and he advises clients on their application strategy in this area, how to make good choices between alternative solution providers, and how to get the best results from implementation.
Prior to joining Forrester, Duncan worked for QAD, an international provider of enterprise solutions for manufacturing companies in various product management and product marketing roles. Most recently, he had global responsibility for radical changes to QAD's pricing and licensing strategy.
Duncan qualified as a chartered accountant with KPMG and then joined Courtaulds, a diverse multinational manufacturing company. He held various line finance and IT roles before becoming project manager in a corporate team, managing systems-enabled business improvement projects around the world.
Duncan has a first-class degree in mathematics from Hertford College at the University of Oxford and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
US Online Insurance Sales Will Grow Steadily Through 2015
In 2010, online motor and home insurance sales in the US grew to $8.4 billion, which represents less than a 4% share of insurance sales in these two categories. What's behind that online single-digit...
I recently sorted through just shy of 2,000 inquiries that Forrester analysts completed from insurance industry clients, from a grim Q1 2009 through the cautious optimism at the end of Q1...
Insurance Transformation Exposes Key Opportunities For Technology Vendors
The US insurance industry represents 3.2% of gross domestic product (GDP) and generated nearly $1 trillion in revenues in 2009, but even with that big number, premium growth has been declining for...

Do you have any data on market sizing for claims disbursement? What is the overall annual revenue? What percentage of the insurer's portfolio does this make up? How many claims disbursements are made...
Emerging Technologies Spur New Insurer Thinking And New Vendor Applications
North American insurers are reorienting from business as usual, where actuaries and underwriter drive product creation and sales, to a "business-as-unusual" model in which insurers sell a customer...
Edutainment Succeeds In Engaging Twentysomethings Through Digital Tools
The Retirement Services Division at Massachusetts Mutual Financial Group (MassMutual) provides retirement savings programs through employers across the US. An important segment that will consume...

Forrester Forrsights For Business Technology
Even in this seesaw economy, the insurance industry marches forward. Post-crash, insurers have dusted themselves off and are moving onward. Carriers are getting hipper and more creative in their...
Anybody out there who doesn't have a mobile device, raise your hand...just what I thought. The explosion of mobile phones and apps in the everyday lives of consumers--and agents--is powering big...
ING's Interactive Life Insurance Tool Separates The Education From The Sale
In 2005, ING US Insurance embarked on a strategy to expand its sales of individual term life insurance to the US middle market. Many Americans don't have either any or enough life insurance coverage...
Vision: The Mobile Insurance Strategy Playbook
Hold on tight — the business of insurance is changing, in large part due to customer demand for better experiences. What's fueling this changing demand? Mobile devices are everywhere, mobile...

Yee Hah! The worst recession since the Great Depression was declared officially over in June of 2009. We should be feeling great, since all things considered, the insurance industry fared pretty well...
New Wave Of Vendors Bolsters Support Of Insurance Business Capabilities
Insurance enterprise architects are embracing their role in aligning technology and business strategies. In 2011, that alignment is even more important as insurers see markets firming as a result of...
Online affluent consumers who buy insurance in the US are older and more technology-savvy when compared with online Americans who buy insurance. These millionaire insurance customers are self-made,...
After a record year for claims, a continued poor investment climate, and an economy mired in the doldrums, rates in the US for auto and especially homeowners insurance have no place to go but up....
The insurance industry is in the midst of some big changes. Those changes introduce very new pressures, priorities, and uncertainties into an industry whose business depends on stability. In these...
Focusing on solving the core industry-specific business problems is the next big wave in the tech industry. Nowhere is it more evident of technology's unique role in solving business problems than in...
Insurers Must Catch Up To The Sophistication Of Today's Fraudsters
Fraud costs the US insurance industry upward of $40 billion, which the industry then passes on to policyholders in the form of higher premiums. Financial crime is on the rise as fraudsters become...
A large P&C insurance company is looking to replace its current policy administration platform that is being sunsetted by the software vendor and is having trouble coming up with a list of...
Canadians still use the phone as their primary channel for insurance. In fact, the phone was the only channel used by a majority of online Canadian insurance customers in the past year, while fewer...
Strategic Plan: The Mobile Insurance Strategy Playbook
Mobile strategies fail when firms approach them as purely technology solutions without clear business objectives and stakeholder support. Having a documented strategic plan that all stakeholders...

Landscape: The Mobile Insurance Strategy Playbook
Insurance companies are rolling out a widening range of mobile insurance functionality for both consumers and agents. While there's substantial consumer interest in mobile insurance, actual use is...

Auto And Home Insurance Firms Should Refurbish eDelivery Strategies
Paper bills, statements, and policies are a costly and unnecessary expenditure in the auto and homeowner insurance industry. Although it is idealistic at best to think that eBusiness teams at...