politics have made the association unnecessarily slow, conservative and protective. In my view the association should be inspirational for starters, add value to experienced professionals, be a frontrunner in innovation and be an open community to facilitate everything to take the domain to the next level. That’s why I write this blog in English, inviting non-Dutch actuaries and professionals from different backgrounds to help enrich our actuarial domain. 09 BLOG // 09_02_2016 I propose to make the association more accessible and even open-source. High membership fees do not help. Also the permanent education system seems far away from how knowledge is nowadays created and shared like for instance the Wikipedia initiative. A more open and accessible actuarial association will lead to more diverse domain discussions on pricing models, fraud detection, longevity tables, and so on and eventually result in true (outside-in) innovation. One might say that the actuarial context is so particular and complex that ‘ordinary’ professionals cannot understand. I seriously doubt it. If open-source software societies like the Django Software Foundation can develop a product and leverage knowledge on much more complex matters, an open minded actuarial community can do it for sure. [1] Cluster analysis on the competency survey data that Focus Orange & Crunchr organized for the Dutch Actuarial Congress 2015, shows that 38% can be classified as the innovative actuary. AG_ BLOGS_ 2015_2016 The sustainability of the profession lies in discovering new application areas, way broader than the current domain. ’’
22 Online Touch Home