Dai-ichi Life and RocketSpace Accelerate Innovation for Japan’s Aging Population
Today, RocketSpace, a Silicon Valley-based external innovation consulting company, announced its partnership with The Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company, one of Japan’s largest life insurance providers. Leveraging RocketSpace’s leadership in open innovation, the two companies are focused on building innovative solutions to support Dai-ichi Life’s commitment to customer service excellence. This new partnership further strengthens Dai-ichi Life’s presence in Silicon Valley and its access to disruptive technologies and startups.
Japan’s population is living longer, creating unique needs that require a range of services. Emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and robotics are creating new opportunities for forward-thinking industry leaders like Dai-ichi Life to expand how it can empower its millions of customers to lead a higher quality of life. By taking a proactive approach to exploring and testing disruptive technologies, Dai-ichi Life also creates opportunities to enter new markets and improve internal productivity, among other revenue-driving business benefits.
“Dai-ichi Life is taking a tech-driven approach to creating new business opportunities that support our customers’ quality of life. We chose RocketSpace as our innovation partner because of their results-driven methodology and extensive experience in helping large organizations accelerate their innovation initiatives.” – Dai-ichi Life’s Chief Representative in Silicon Valley, Shun Mitsuogi.
“Progressive organizations like Dai-ichi Life challenge themselves to innovate beyond their core business. Dai-ichi Life is taking a proactive approach to exploring emerging technology’s impact on the customer experience, and that is critical in anticipating the needs of Japan’s aging population.” – VP of Corporate Services at RocketSpace, Brad Strum.
Into 2019, Dai-ichi Life and RocketSpace will explore multiple focus areas affecting Dai-ichi Life’s customer base through conceptualization and testing of new technology solutions.
