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The Battle for Relevancy
Social media is changing everything, especially in the retail business. Over the past twelve months, we have seen banks enabling features...
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Taking the robot out of humans
Most of us who follow the latest themes and trends in banking are aware of the drive towards robotics and artificial intelligence. The...
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Lipstick on a Gorilla
Why is it that more and more bank CEO’s I meet are happy to deliver piece-meal patched up solutions to their network challenges that...
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Thinking Big
There is a wind of change continues to blow across the banking industry. The big question on the minds of bankers I meet at the moment is...
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When Digital Works, Growth Happens
Now I have your attention, I want to start this article by correcting the title, it should read ‘When Customer Experience Works, Growth...
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How Digital Can Catapult Your Business Forward?
A number of my readers have teased me this week about being so grumpy in my recent posts especially the last one (Tell me what I CAN...
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Tell me what I CAN have, not what I can’t
How many readers of this blog have been into a store, or come to think of it, any retailer and been told they can’t buy what they went...
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Digital: The beginning of the end for segmentation?
We are all familiar with Google, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp etc, the backbone of search and communication tools on the web. We see...
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Mumbai Express Rickshaw Challenge
For the past two weeks, Mark Howman and I have been participating in the Mumbai Express Rickshaw Challenge. A 1950km race across India...
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Why the middle of the Diamond matters
I read with interest an article published in The Pakistani Tribune (@PakistanTribune) explaining that the market in this, and other...
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Don't mention 'Branch of the Future'
Those of you who are old enough to remember Blake’s 7, or Space 1999 will remember the terribly designed sets, with shiny surfaces and...
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Mobile Banking: Not the only answer
So many CEO’s that I meet around the region confess with a smile on their faces that ‘Mobile Banking is the Way Forward’. That, if you...