Product Description
Drawing on his years of experience in insurance technology, ACORD's President & CEO Gregory A. Maciag has released his second book - The Real-Time World: Enabled by ACORD Standards. In it, Maciag addresses today's pressing technological and economic issues while illustrating the role that standards play in supporting business through good times and bad. Maciag provides new insights and perspectives on the industry, asserting that the policies and best practices established today will pay dividends over time. Maciag also stresses the strategic importance of standards and the need to get them implemented across the industry, especially in light of today's business and economy conditions. By providing information in bite-sized chunks, he creates not only a business guide but a strategy for standards implementation. Supporting this goal is an appendix replete with information on ACORD including the Standards, forms, members, and ongoing initiatives. According to his introduction ''We live in a 'real-time' world today. The global economy is not an abstraction, but a realization that we are all connected for better or worse. Barriers to open trade should not only ne national issues but corporate concerns as well. Economic islands do not exist and I have no doubt that you will 'get it'.''
About the Author
Gregrory A. Maciag has 40 years of insurance industry experience. He joined ACORD in 1977 and has served as President & CEO since 1994. His vision has positioned ACORD as a world-class standards development organization serving both national and international insurance markets. Maciag is a recognized expert and columnist who authored hundreds of columns on business standards and technology. Prior to joining ACORD, he held information systems positions with the Chubb Group and the National Council on Compensation Insurance. He resides in New Jersey with his wife Carol and daughter Michelle.
