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A discussion of trends in innovation management within financial institutions, and the key processes, technology and cultural shifts driving innovation.
At the early stage of e-invoicing it was referred to as “dematerialization”. The benefits were seen as coming from not sending paper mail – but electronic mail. Now it has become very clear that the r...
"If there are any Mattel engineers in the audience, the astronaut Barby's space suit is not crash proof" (loose paraphrasing on Will Wright's keynote) Yep, the keynote was entertaining and ...
New report (will be translated to English soon) going deeper into the e-invoicing theme http://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/DBR_INTERNET_DE-PROD/PROD0000000000253980.pdf Deutsche Bank is certainly doing th...
A scientist was conducting an experiment with a fly. He pulled off one of its legs and set it down to see if it could fly. Conclusion: a fly without one leg can still fly. He pared off a second leg an...
Have banks given up trying to be good citizens? Sometimes you get that feeling - and also understanding that the avalanche of generalizing populistic condemning can lead to a give-up feeling even in t...
Purchasing an airline ticket with Rs. 30 in the wallet at 2 am in the midst of a trekking expedition, considered nigh impossible till a few years back is now a distinct reality made possible by mobil
Hey, that’s a first. A bank sues a customer over losing money to fraud. It used to be the other way around. Online banking fraud got to executive level attention when in 2005 Bank of America was sued...
When something happens for the first time - it's avantgarde. If you see it twice - it's original. On the third time - it's plagiarism. On the fourth - it's pastiche. But when it happens for the fifth ...
Butch Cassidy: You know, when I was a kid, I always thought I'd grow up to be a hero. Sundance Kid: Well, it's too late now. Butch Cassidy: What'd you say that for? You didn't have to say something ...
Innovations always take time. Also in the case of e-invoicing. A few observations: - e-banking took time - and typically some actors lost faith (did not jump on the bandwagon or went passive) halfway ...
By 2014, mobile and Internet technology will help over 3 billion of the world's adults to electronically transact. Emerging economies will see increase in mobile and Internet adoption through 2014. Wo...
Banking has a long history of producing innovative technology; from the Big Bang of the 1980s, through ATMs and debit cards, to this century’s online banking. Technology has repeatedly changed the way...