Increasing top-line revenue with portfolio innovation
Digital product portfolio management becomes a key success factor for banks and fintechs in the digital era. Digital transformation initiatives usually focus on the supply-side [...]
Rethinking banking delivery
This is the second blog post about our new financial services whitepaper. While the first one covers the importance of product portfolio innovation, this one explores how to deliver [...]
Boosting top-line growth through portfolio innovation
New technologies and digitalisation are next to regulation and compliance a top priority for many financial institutions. However, digitalisation in banking is not about becoming digital. It’s about growth. [...]
How to make decisions efficiently
Many workshop methods and tools (e.g. business model canvas) are overhyped and yet under-utilised. In this post, I share my view on how workshops are an efficient way to [...]
Building the right product matters more than a great one
As agile and sprint-based development cycles are becoming table-stakes capabilities, it’s easier to build new products and services than ever before. Almost every company serious about innovation or transformation [...]
Recap Holland Fintech Meetup May 2019
Amsterdam—and the Netherlands in general—is an unparalleled innovation powerhouse in Europe. Especially the banking landscape is unique, with several incumbent banks investing a lot in their organisational transformation on [...]
Sustaining growth for new ventures
Launching new offerings successfully in B2B markets is hard. Mostly driven by innovation or technological advancements, newly developed propositions need to attract a sufficient amount of tech enthusiasts or [...]
How Neobanks utilise behavioural economics
Fintech companies utilise mental accounting, a well-established concept within behavioural economics, to simplify personal finance management. Utilising behavioural economics principles in business, such as nudging, social proof or loss [...]
Recap The Next Web Conference 2019
Amsterdam has developed into one of the most progressive technology and start-up hubs in Europe. It’s a city that builds on a long tradition in innovation. That’s why we’ve [...]
Solving wicked business problems
The first part of this series described the pitfalls of efficiency-driven approaches when it comes to solving business problems. This post shows how to overcome these problems and how [...]