How Dutch banks prepare for the future
In cooperation with Holland Fintech, Accenture, Fincog and Infinium we created a new report on the Dutch banking innovation ecosystem. Based on Ross Republic's project work with several international [...]
Product portfolio innovation in financial services
This is the third blog post about our new financial services whitepaper. The first one covers the importance of product portfolio innovation, the second one explores how to deliver [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]