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3 Major Challenges Financial Institutions Face When Implementing Business Insight Technology

Strategy Driven

It’s usually the job of a bank’s chief financial officer (CFO), chief risk officer (CRO), or chief technology officer (CTO) to oversee tech implementation. They might be intimidated by the new software, as this will be their first time to see robotics and machine learning applied in banking processes.

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Learning The Keys To Exceptional Execution

Tanveer Naseer

You don’t need $50,000 in the bank. Guibert Englebienne, co-founder and CTO of Globant told me, “When you find unique talent, recruit it. You simply find an ordinary idea, and implement that idea with xceptional execution. Xceptional execution brings results. You can start with what you have, exactly where you are.

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11 Ideas for Economic Recovery

Strategy Driven

One retail CTO summed it up well at a recent SAS event when he said, “We don’t want to just struggle through and be hanging by our fingertips when the economy recovers. One Canadian bank applied this thinking to bounced checks. Subscribe now to get your subscription to this award-winning quarterly magazine. We want to come out strong.”

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To Drive Digital Transformation, Focus on People

Strategy Driven

He’s worked at the US Commerce Department, First Bank System, and Norwest Banks; was CTO of a real estate software firm; and led Wells Fargo servicing technology through the default crisis. His latest book is People Over Process: Leadership for Agility (Productivity Press, September 30, 2019).

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How Apple Pushes Entire Industries Forward

Harvard Business Review

But putting it into practice required an entire ecosystem to move in unison — merchants, consumers, credit card companies, and banks. The term was coined by the first CTO of the US Government, Aneesh Chopra. Something that only a company with the massive reach of Apple could do.

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A Board Director's Perspective on What IT Has to Get Right

Harvard Business Review

Note that the high-profile C-suite executives at firms like Borders, Jessops, and Bank of New England had large IT budgets, but no longer have a company to make more efficient today.). The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. This question attempts to tease out an unconscious assumption that "we will always be in business."

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Yes, Managing IT Is Your Job

Harvard Business Review

In a previous post , I described the shift in roles as ING, the Netherlands bank, moves from a traditional method of developing new systems in major steps — with design documents and functional specifications thrown over the wall — to making quick, small changes to systems (using "Agile Scrum"). IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs).