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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. In our new financial services whitepaper we have outlined [...]
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 make good decisions and why specific methodologies should rather [...]
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 in different parts of the B2B value chain independently [...]
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 for European end-customers. Online marketplaces invest in B2B service [...]
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 has adopted agile development and innovation sprints to ideate, [...]
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 relationships with innovative players. The unlocking of new value [...]
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 the one hand and an extraordinary amount of promising [...]
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 early adopters in order to achieve initial market traction. [...]
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 aversion, is one of the most significant intellectual trends [...]
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 attended TNW2019, a leading tech and innovation conference. It [...]
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 to get better at complex problem solving. What to [...]
Growing business by doing the right things, smarter
How complex problem solving leads to valid outcomes in critical decision making. The mission of strategy and innovation consultants is to grow a client’s business by doing the right things, smarter. Growing a business usually follows a rock-paper-scissor [...]
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. In our new financial services whitepaper we have outlined [...]
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 make good decisions and why specific methodologies should rather [...]
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 in different parts of the B2B value chain independently [...]
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 for European end-customers. Online marketplaces invest in B2B service [...]
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 has adopted agile development and innovation sprints to ideate, [...]
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 relationships with innovative players. The unlocking of new value [...]
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 the one hand and an extraordinary amount of promising [...]
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 early adopters in order to achieve initial market traction. [...]
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 aversion, is one of the most significant intellectual trends [...]
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 attended TNW2019, a leading tech and innovation conference. It [...]
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 to get better at complex problem solving. What to [...]
Growing business by doing the right things, smarter
How complex problem solving leads to valid outcomes in critical decision making. The mission of strategy and innovation consultants is to grow a client’s business by doing the right things, smarter. Growing a business usually follows a rock-paper-scissor [...]
Demystifying API-driven banking
Thank you for joining the Ross Republic podcast. In our fourteenth episode, your host Adrian Klee is joined by Lars Markull from Weavr and Mateusz Pniewski from TransactionLink to cut through the hype about API-driven banking. [...]
Connecting banks and digital platforms w/ Banxware
Thank you for joining the Ross Republic podcast. In our thirteenth episode, your host Adrian Klee is joined by Ross Republic's Advisor Maso Arai as well as Nicolas Kipp and Jens Röhrborn from Banxware to discuss embedded lending. [...]
Next-gen business financing platforms w/ Remagine
Thank you for joining the Ross Republic podcast. In our twelfth episode, your host Adrian Klee is joined by Sebastian Dienst, co-founder of digital finance platform Remagine, to talk about new innovation opportunities in business finance. [...]
How technology enables new business models in banking
Thank you for joining the Ross Republic podcast. In our eleventh episode, your host Adrian Klee is joined by Rivo Uibo, the Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer of Modularbank. They are here to discuss how technology enables new [...]
Financial wellbeing in Europe
Thank you for joining the Ross Republic podcast. In our tenth episode, your host Adrian Klee is joined by Franziska Weissbach and Bastian Lindberg to discuss financial wellbeing. Franziska is a Corporate Entrepreneur within the Strategy & Business [...]
Fintech expansion strategies
Thank you for joining the Ross Republic podcast. In our ninth episode, your host Adrian Klee is joined by Ross Republic advisors Mikko Riikkinen and Gerrit Glass, an international fintech expert with experience at Europe’s leading fintech groups [...]
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