Ever heard the business proverb that it’s important to play “chess, not checkers?” This turn of phrase drives at the difference between strategy and tactics. Chess was once perceived as the height of human strategic thinking, and so when IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer defeated chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov in 1997, many declared that human ...

When considering innovation in the context of the title insurance industry, the evolution of data capture and data management techniques has been an instrumental part of the industry’s growth over the last several decades.

At their core, insurance companies help their customers navigate risk decisions. At First American, we help consumers, lenders and other customers navigate the risk involved in real estate transactions. It is not an overstatement to say that First American makes major, multi-million-dollar decisions about risk every single day when issuing title ...