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German and European insurance and brokerage companies in the industrial insurance sector are lagging far behind the possibilities when it comes to digitalisation. The opportunities lie in digital platforms.

Low code is replacing costly and slow software development approaches as a development principle. Business departments can design and customize highly complex and mission-critical enterprise applications without programming skills.

Where most industries suffer during the crisis, at least online trade has benefited from the Corona crisis.But the next Corona wave seems to be rolling towards us. Anyone who does not invest now in setting up and/or expanding the digital distribution of their products is missing a great opportunity and risking their future viability in the digital age of the company.

In mid-August 2020, the Hamburg Register of Shipping started regular digital operation. Since then, changes and new entries at the local court have been implemented exclusively in the web-based "SchiR" system, which mgm technology partners implemented together with Dataport on behalf of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. The team has implemented the project agile.

Since July 2020, the "E-Bill in Bavaria" service has been live on the Internet. Now the service has been awarded the certificate "BITV-compliant" after a thorough examination according to the Barrier-Free Information Technology Ordinance (BITV). mgm technology partners realised it as a technical service provider on behalf of the Bavarian State Ministry of Digital Affairs.

The barrier-free use of internet offers is not a matter of course. People with physical or cognitive disabilities regularly experience difficulties online, both in their private lives and at work. Therefore, public administration services in particular play a pioneering role in making the Internet as accessible as possible. We explain what this means here.

Since 2018, the autumn conference of the NEGZ (National E-Government Competence Centre e.V.) has been held as part of the bitkom "Smart Country Convention". This year's event was the same, but like most other events it was digital & remote. mgm was present with three contributions.

Many private consumers have long since taken out their insurance policies via the well-known online comparison portals such as Check24 and Verivox. Now the relevance of such online marketplaces is also becoming increasingly important for commercial insurance policies. Small businesses in particular are already taking advantage of the opportunities.

So what do you need to pay attention to and what is important in the agile development of an IT strategy? Which external and internal factors need to be considered - and why? Which parts of the existing strategy process remain, which ones need to be adapted? What is critical to success for agile strategy development?

Classical approaches to the development of IT strategies are less and less able to meet the general requirements in dynamic situations and market environments. In this article we want to help you to get a clear understanding of the agile methods that support an IT strategy development process.