Telephone: +44 (0)118 981 9316
Latest News
Emma Howell joins Metaskil
Metaskil are delighted to announce that Emma Howell has joined the company as Business Development Manager to promote the company’s innovative Open Square toolset....
Metaskil improve Thames Water's project methodology
Metaskil's input ensures Thames Water will achieve an increased consistency in IS project delivery through clarity of critical document products and a clear understanding of the requirements for ...
Metaskil sponsor local cricket team
Metaskil have agreed a two year sponsorship deal with local cricket team Silchester for whom Paul Hunsdon, our Resourcing Director, has played for many seasons....
 | New Street girls get on their bikes Tuesday 12 July 2011 Andover New Street Girls U12’s football team ditched the pitch on Sunday 10th July and rode bikes to help raise funds to buy a new kit, training equipment and essential first aid supplies. Read the rest ... |
 | Wanna be in my gang? Monday 13 June 2011 I am constantly surprised (and, on occasion, gobsmacked) by the tendency of insurers to tow the line and jump on bandwagons with a complete reluctance/fear of doing something genuinely different! Read the rest ... |
| | The good, the bad and the VERY ugly! Tuesday 24 May 2011 There are literally hundreds of recruitment agencies out there, supplying thousands of interim IT staff. So, just what makes an agency good, bad or just plain ugly? Read the rest ... |
 | Metaskil supporting Dave's charity challenge Monday 23 May 2011 Long standing Metaskil client and associate Dave Faithful is taking part in a special motorcycling challenge to raise money for MND (Motor Neurone Disease) Association. Read the rest ... |
| | Caution could cost Tuesday 17 May 2011 Last week’s Insurance Telematics Europe 2011 conference in London was a real eye opener for me. Surrounded as I was by the luminaries of the telematics industry in the UK and across Europe I got a real sense of how far the UK is behind many of our continental counterparts when it comes to telematic implementation. Read the rest ... |
| | Who's afraid of the big bad box? Thursday 21 April 2011 This week Towers Watson research revealed that more than 75% of drivers would be willing to pilot telematics schemes in order to save money on their insurance premiums. I can’t say that this is surprising when you consider the findings of AA research last week that revealed the cost of car insurance premiums has increased by a massive 40.1%. Read the rest ... |
| | Why keep a dog and bark yourself? Wednesday 30 March 2011 In the mid-90’s I did a lot of work on customer propositions. We were paid a lot of money to understand the specific drivers that made people deal with one company or another, engage with one product or another. Read the rest ... |
| | Insurance fraud meets its (high-tech) match? Monday 21 March 2011 Fraud has always been seen as a necessary price of doing business – not least in the motor insurance world. Unless you have had your head buried very deep in the sand you can’t have failed to notice that the ‘f’ word has come to the fore again, as it always seems to when premiums are rising and insurers are looking to assuage, with an ever increasing number of column inches being consumed by talk of increasing levels of Fraud. Read the rest ... |
| | Why the end to gender based premium calculation is good news for responsible insurers and careful drivers alike Tuesday 01 March 2011 Today’s European Court of Justice ruling, making it illegal to take gender into account when fixing insurance premiums, is good news for responsible insurers and careful drivers alike - and age cannot be far behind! Read the rest ... |
| | You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow Friday 28 January 2011 Some of you may recognise the famous (unattributed) quotation in the title of this posting. To me it sounds like common sense but unfortunately for many of the dinosaurs that inhabit the insurance industry it doesn’t seem to compute. Read the rest ... |
Go to page >>