SECURA Insurance Companies

Who we are
SECURA Insurance Companies is based in Neenah, Wis., and operates in 12 states, including: Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, and Wisconsin. Since 1900, we’ve been known for our genuine people and exceptional service by agents and policyholders. As a property-casualty insurance company, we provide flexible, customized options for your business, home, auto, farm, agribusiness, and nonprofit.

Our purpose
Our purpose statement is one we encourage our associates to live out every day through each interaction they have. It truly reflects our genuine nature as a company and the direction that we will follow moving forward.

We’re making insurance genuine
From the protection we provide to the relationships we build. It’s our mission to provide quality coverage and unmatched service to empower our independent agents and protect our customers.
Core principles
-Serve our agents and policyholders
-Conduct ourselves with honesty and integrity
-Maintain a balance between career and personal life and wellbeing
-Employ creative and competent people and challenge them to keep pace with changing environments
-Improve existing products and services and develop new ones to fill the continually changing needs of our agents and policyholders
-Maintain financial strength to assure the continued security of our agents and policyholders
-Be a leading and contributing corporate citizen in the community and financial services industry

I.T. Vision 2025
Speed to Value Agile / Dev-Ops / Automation / CI
Key Drivers:  Efficiency, Expense, Speed to Business Value​
Speed= make prosperous or successful. We will attempt to “move along quickly,” Speed is the rate we determine which someone or something is able to move or operate efficiency and effectively.

2025 Vision:
-Efficiency Driven, process only where it adds value​
-Agile IT delivery - all delivery teams, product owners, product backlogs, sprints​
-Frequent automated code builds, automated testing, and automated deployments using continuous integration, delivery, deployment methods​
-Continuous improvement through agile feedback loops
-Standardization of workflow management tools
-Automate wherever it brings value to the organization

Scope:
-Agile – create training plans for Dev teams, Scrum Master, & Product Owners
-Agile – create COE & pilot Agile standards & communications regarding Agile (2021)
-Agile – Tool rationalization (continue to look at opportunities to reduce tools; looking to remove qTest (possible CI Savings)
-DevOps – Create and mature a CoE and publish a standard service catalog.
-DevOps – Consolidate source control tools, enable Continuous Integration for targeted applications, and develop work planning tool automation.
-DevOps – Operationalize Infrastructure as Code (IaC), improve the Powerwriter deployment process, and improve the IT Service Management change process through automation.
-Continuous Improvement – utilize CI-IT Committee to develop and execute CI Quick Wins and agile feedback loops