by Daniel Diemers & Fred Gregaard Digital didn’t have a lasting impact on most financial services the first time around in the late 1990s, but now it’s definitely here to stay. The challenge for the industry is less about predicting and reacting to individual trends than adopting new approaches to assess the impact of technology [...]
It was a wonderful indian summer day in Boston, Massachusetts back in 1999, sailing boats were battling it out on Charleston River, joggers lined the river banks, and many a Red Sox fan was silently dreaming and hoping that one day, yes one day, their cursed team may win the world series again. At the MIT Media Lab -- back [...]
X-2016 @ Someren, Holland 28 – 30 October 2016 Every two years the rural village of Someren in the Netherlands is the epicenter of a different kind of burning man. It's the old 8-bit scene gathering, their heads full of crazy ideas and creativity. The former and ruling elite comes from all over the [...]
A new regulatory wave is coming. and we're not talking about that little 2-feet kiddy swell, that let's you wonder if it's even worth getting wet - PSD2 is coming with a roar, an impressive height at the horizon - and it's coming in the shape of a massive, large wave. Whoever wrote the script had [...]
Our 2016 global Fintech report has just been released with a particular focus on InsurTech. Yes, yet another -Tech, after RegTech, etc. but it was about time FinTech reaches the Insurance industry. While all and everyone in banking and wealth Management has come to realise that digital and Fintech is here to stay, the insurance [...]
PwC Strategy&’s report, ‘Sink or swim: why wealth management can’t afford to miss the digital wave’, finds the sector is one of the least tech-literate of the financial services industry, and what’s currently on offer is sharply at odds with what their clients, high net worth individuals, expect. Read more: http://pwc.to/27RupDx
We've asked 544 respondents, principally Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), Heads of Innovation, Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and top-tier managers involved in digital and technological transformation across 46 countries... ...and this is what they said: Read the full report here: Link to Microsite
Finally, detailed, accurate and curated real-time industry #fintech Analysis is available - new Video out that shows the cool features of PwC Strategy&'s new global digital strategy & Fintech platform #DeNovo I've seen it life and it's really cool. Finally seperate the real insights from the noise, get short & concise views and opinions by real [...]
If you like strategy books and (hopefully) read CDS Capabilities-Driven Strategy from the same authors, you will definitely like this one. Did you know: 50% of executives have no confidence in their own strategy. (and the other half probably wouldn't admit it when asked in a Survey) While a well formulated, well thought through strategy is [...]
Link: Financial Times September 24, 2010 3:25 am ‘Sir Lukes’ thinking outside the box? From Dr Daniel Diemers. Sir, The unexpected and tragic death of Martin Lukes (Business Life, September 23) is seriously spoiling my Thursday’s reading of the FT, and my mood. To lose the leading “human mind bullet” and creative/critical [...]
