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I was talking with an associate the other day about supporting teams in adopting an innovation mentality.
This goes beyond just a one-off solution, a brainstorm or company hack-day, the challenge is making innovation part of the culture so it becomes just the way in which we operate.
Creating, sustaining and continually improving effective ways of New Product Development requires the efforts, commitment and active participation of everyone in the organisation. It’s not something that can be delegated, offloaded or left to just one department, function or silo.
Today, there are a range of supporting services and engineered solutions available to prospective new banks. These can accelerate the business operating of a digitally and data driven business, and also adhere to banking regulations and compliance.
On further consideration, I felt that market entry and specifically the ease to enter the Retail banking sector hadn’t been considered enough.
From 2008 until 2014, there were relatively few large scale acquisitions, but the pendulum sure has swung mightily the other way.
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Most digital brands are fairly new compared to Coke and John Lewis. Digital media is focussed on a fast transient engagement, sometimes not allowing the customer to dwell and understand the value of the brand. Consider Facebook and Amazon in recent years they have migrated to other media advertising platforms both to inhibit competition and to embed themselves in our minds.
I was listening to BBC World Service via my local NPR station (KUOW). They were running an interesting story on The science behind ocean acidification. It stuck me as they were discussing the economics of an ocean populated by jellyfish and grasses, that the pundits aren’t applying scenario planning to the environmental change equation. They stated that their would be negative economic impacts on the change from an ocean of exoskeletons to one of goo.
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In the book Built to Last, Jim Collins and Jerry Porras spoke about the “genius of AND”. The basic idea is that companies who define their capabilities or their markets as exclusionary choices are limiting themselves. The real power comes when companies embrace the contradiction inherent in what otherwise might be two opposing concepts.
WARNING ***GENERATION ALERT*** As with all my posts I need to put the – it’s just a personal view, possibly wrong but shared because in my view every linkedin stream needs more than HPCISCOIBM AgileCloudBigBuyUs promos! When I first started in IT countless millenia ago, I got that lots of people didn’t understand it. It’s…
Last week I was invited to be part of an My Community Manager / emoderation panel discussing social media in regulated industries.
I thought it might be worth providing a transcript of my responses here (since I’ve taken the time to prepare them, I may as well blog them too!)
Please bear in mind I was talking primarily in relation to Financial Services.