Episode 90: Striking own goals

Episode 90: Striking own goals

Guillaume Bonnissent’s Insurance Technology Diary Episode 90: Striking own goals Guillaume Bonnissent’s Insurance Technology Diary About halfway through the storm-induced, two-hour interruption of the France-Iraq match, I began to think about an Insurance Technology...
Episode 89: The more things change…

Episode 89: The more things change…

Guillaume Bonnissent’s Insurance Technology Diary Episode 89: The more things change… Guillaume Bonnissent’s Insurance Technology Diary Claude was down for about an hour yesterday. I don’t mean my great aunt’s fiancé (although Uncle Claude did occasionally pop in for...
Episode 88: The profit motive

Episode 88: The profit motive

Guillaume Bonnissent’s Insurance Technology Diary Episode 88: The profit motive Guillaume Bonnissent’s Insurance Technology Diary People of a certain age remember word processers. These computing devices were not computers per se. Unlike the modern desktop, or even...
Episode 87: Training pay

Episode 87: Training pay

Guillaume Bonnissent’s Insurance Technology Diary Episode 87: Training pay Guillaume Bonnissent’s Insurance Technology Diary I flew around Europe quite a lot during my years as an underwriter. As every business traveller knows, being among the workplace jet-set adds...
Episode 86: The end is nigh

Episode 86: The end is nigh

Guillaume Bonnissent’s Insurance Technology Diary Episode 86: The end is nigh Guillaume Bonnissent’s Insurance Technology Diary A lot of people, even a lot of French people, have forgotten Minitel. In the early 1980s, before anyone elsewhere had even heard of the word...