Innovating Banking
Banks are experiencing new challenges to their traditional operating model
- Major challenges have emerged in the economics of banking – reduced revenues and rising costs
- Increasing regulation, a challenging security environment, more demanding customers and a disruptive competitive environment are adding to bank’s challenges
Innovation allows banks to transcend ‘business as usual’
The most successful organizations do innovation differently
Organizational structures and functions supporting innovation
Successful organizations align innovation activities with business objectives, pursue ‘open’ innovation structures, and create specialized teams
Cultural environments to make innovation thrive
Successful organizations maintain a clear focus on innovation across all business activities, encouraging innovative behaviors, and sustaining innovation momentum
Processes to convert ideas into innovation
Successful organizations source new ideas from diverse locations, often leveraging big data and analytics; innovation is funded separately and measured rigorously
Key to successful innovation is applying innovation that delivers against a business need or business outcome that is relevant to today's business. To many times innovation creates a fantastic solution to a business problem we never new we needed! If we look at distributed ledgers and blockchain today we see many examples of a highly innovate solution seeking a real world problem....
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