Culture change management: Strategy and process
Culture is an undisputed source of sustainable competitive advantage and a performance lever. “Culture eats strategy for breakfast” is a top business catchphrase. Yet leaders often see it as [...]
Five priorities for executives for the era of open finance
A significant shift is on the horizon of the banking industry, and it is not borne out of technological or data-based advances; it is instead human and mindset-driven change [...]
Platforms and open data transforming banking
Jussi Valsta, the CEO of VertaaEnsin.fi, a financial product information and comparison platform, which is part of CompareEuropeGroup, shares his views on how the platform and data economy changes the business [...]
Making business of open banking
The forerunners in open banking showed that open banking has potential to improve customer experience, increase efficiencies and unlock new revenue once it is linked to business strategy and [...]
Open Banking – a role model for Open B2B Industry?
When a market matures, businesses extend their life cycle by reinventing themselves and investing in servitisation and digitalisation. In the digital era, it is not enough that companies operating [...]
Disintermediation is not the answer for B2B companies
Long gone are the days when European companies had a monopoly over quality products and accessible services. The new manufacturing competitors from lower-cost production countries produce good enough products [...]
When a new brand does not solve the real problem
To stay in the game, companies across industries are innovating new businesses to meet the shifting demands of customers, adopting new ways of working, opening digital platforms and establishing [...]
Growing faster after horizontal acquisition
In the ever more global and digital marketplace, three things matter in growing business regardless of the industry. Customer-centricity, agility and size. Customer-centricity and agility for keeping the offering relevant [...]