The pressure to launch new products, to create new markets and to develop new opportunities is intense.  But ho do you balance that urgent drive with the need to protect your human and capital assets and avoid obsolescence?

Marsh's global Technology Practice is a team of over 1,000 risk specialists which is committed to the advanced technology business and the unique challenges facing the technology marketplace.

We apply years of experience and technology expertise to working as strategic business partners with our clients.  Through the resources available withing the professional services firms in Marsh, we can create effective business solutions encompassing dimensions of insurance, management consulting, information systems, and specialised risk and claims consulting.

Marsh's worldwide technology services include:

Understanding and Quantifying Your Risks

• Risk mapping
• Bottom line impact analysis
• Risk analysis for new products, markets and operations
• Risk management of cyberspace exposures
• Due diligence for mergers, acquisitions and other transactions.

Controlling and Reducing Losses

• Disaster recovery and business continuity planning
• Hazard communication programmes and safety manuals development
• Construction site surveys
• Accident investigations
• Ergonomics
• Industrial hygiene
• Emergency response programmes and catastrophe preparedness training
• Risk control engineering and property protection
• Specialised liability consulting: employee security, workplace violence, employment practices liability, telecommuting, on-site fitness centres and child care centres.

Optimally Treating Your Risks

• Comprehensive business insurance worldwide covering:

- Property and physical assets

- Business interruption and revenue stream

- Products: work in progress, worldwide transit, errors and omissions, recall, political risk, credit risk

• Non-insurance alternatives

- Portfolio transfer

- Warranty programmes

- Capital market financial vehicles

- Treasury and non-traditional risks

- Finite risk and multi-year funding programmes

• Self insurance and captives

- Enterprise risk.

Protection of Directors, Officers and Key Executives

• D&O liability insurance
• D&O loss mitigation strategies
• Estate and personal financial planning and insurance
• Individual disability plans
• D&O liability risk evaluation and insurance.

Mergers and acquisitions: Business and Product Line Expansion

• Actuarial services
• Contractual analysis
• Environmental due diligence.

Managing claims and Losses

• Multi-insurer and multi-year claims
• Class action product liability
• Workers' compensation claims management and cost containment
• Catastrophic property claims assistance.