Progressive: Pay-as-you-go insurance

Innovation: Pay-As-You-Go Insurance

Outline • Progressive Company and History

• Innovations • Autograph

• Future

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Progressive Short Overview • Auto insurer founded 1937 • was the first insurer o to enter the high risk market o offered high service for customer

• does things different compare to other insurer when setting a premium o price (on finer level) o drivers history o continuously search of new opportunities

History • 1937 Joseph Lewis founded Progressive Insurance Industry in Cleveland, Ohio offering drive-in claims service with the ability of customers to pay over

time • 1956 Progressive started to write auto insurance for high risk drivers and became dominant player

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History • 1988 Son of Lewis, became the CEO and got the idea of dealing with insurance in a more innovative way • The next years Progressive achieved in technology introducing: IMMEDIATE RESPONSE SERVICE available 24/7 • 1993 Give Comparison Quotes to people

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Reasons for Differentiation • Proposition 103 in California 1988 • It was the best thing that happened to this company(...)I decided from then on, anything we did had to be good for the consumer or we weren't going to do it.” (Lewis 1988)

Reasons for Differentiation • Innovation culture of the company • “Looking for opportunities to do things different and new“ (Founder: Joseph Lewis)

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Innovations • fast reliable service with high educated staff, which was highly paid • could now compete with the big opposition like

Allstate and State Farm • higher goals with sophisticated staff and ideas • always venturesome

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Information Transparency • Customers: very price sensitive • High costs for workforce •  Preposition103  Customer Orientation • • • •

Reducing workforce Increasing direct sales Comparison Quotes Website

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Customer Segmentation • Different sources/variables into calculation • More detailed risk estimation • Extensive and state-of-the-art software

• Competitor with lower rate  higher risk of losses • High satisfaction with Immediate Response • Fast service

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Autograph • High-tech method for calculating auto insurance premiums on a pay-as-you-go basis.

GPS satellites

Mapping technology

Internal computer

When and how much a vehicle was driven

Tracking mileage, time of day and where driving occurred. • Example: A mile driven at 2 a.m. was four or five times more expensive than one driven at 7 a.m. •

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Autograph Market Test: Houston (1998) Texas State (1999)

COST

$ 500 per vehicle

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Progressive Customers Premium Calculation 25%

Autograph 75%

Traditional

• Drivers who signed up for Autograph were offered:     

Theft recovery Remote door unlocking Travel directions Low-battery detection Emergency assistance help

1.100 policyholders

• Using autograph, consumers are paying 25% less than “traditional“ products... • Does Autograph offer a competitive advantage? 16

Barriers to Consumer Acceptance

Yes

No

• Higher Premiums for consumers who commute at night • Monthly fee for the additional set of services (GPSbased)

• Cost of installing GPS transponder, cellular system , etc. • Lack of privacy • Focus on new technologies, losing sight of the insurance business 17

Final Decision

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Advantages • market shares and global market • company's reputation

• Customers increase • first-mover advantage

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Disadvantages • high costs and less reward • approval from each state

• Time duration • high risk potential • liquidity issue

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Solution • Do Not expand right away!!! • time for research

• stay in Texas and expand slowly • bigger cities only

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Thank you!

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