Expertise, Judgment, Underwriters and Expert Systems
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Expertise m what is it? Expertise is the ability of one human within an organization to outperform a similarly educated and informed peer group in discrete, repetitive tasks involving decision-making and risk assessment. Expertise is best measured by the degree to which an individual’s performance provides proprietary advantage to his organization. Bright people with exceptional ways of accomplishing tasks which do not provide proprietary advantage to an organization may be innovators or eccentrics, but they are not experts.
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