How Insurers Can Supercharge Their Strategy with AI

By Christopher Freese, Yohei Takabe, Sebastian Schmöger and Jürgen Eckel · Boston Consulting Group · 2025 · CFE201-119-27

Study guide: Exam CFE-201

An 8-minute-read BCG article of 11 April 2025 on how insurers can get value from artificial intelligence. It says AI has generated a lot more talk than value in insurance, and recommends that insurers approach AI with three things in mind: don't overstrategize the technology and use AI to narrow bets, push hard for near-term P&L impact by transforming a few high-value functions, and invest in business leadership, people and processes.

On the syllabus

• Exam CFE-201 — outcomes 4a, 4b.

Narrow Your Bets

Focus on Impact, Fast

Invest in People and Processes

Sources

• How Insurers Can Supercharge Their Strategy with AI (Boston Consulting Group, 11 April 2025) — the document as BCG serves it in print form: title, authors, date, opening paragraphs and the three section headings; BCG's own page for the article could not be fetched, so the PDF is the copy read and is not an address the app can open
• CFE 201 Syllabus, Mar 2027/Jul 2027 (SOA) — the reading (CFE201-119-27) and its learning outcomes
• CFE 201 Introductory Study Note, March 2027 (SOA) — the study-note code CFE201-119-27 and its title