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• 07 Oct

  

  Written by
  Neil Robinson

  
  

  Category

  • banking
  • management
  • products
  • strategy
  • uncategorized

  identikit banks: the UK’s big four – customer centric or simply self serving?

  Here’s a question for you. Imagine all four banks merging. What would we lose?
  OK – so they wouldn’t share one trough – and no one makes one that big.
  

  If our high street merged, what would you take from each to form one super bank?
  I’ll leave you for a minute to have a think about that one.

  For all banking’s “talent” and money, why so little to choose between each one? Why can’t we find a killer product or even one differentiator?

  How can this be – in other sectors key differences exist. Why not in banking? continued over the page… >>

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• 29 Sep

  

  Written by
  Neil Robinson

  
  

  Category

  • banking
  • general
  • management
  • products
  • strategy

  disruption: the true scale of innovation – and its less than you think!

  A writer who I follow was bemoaning the lack of change in banking the other day. Now the point was perfectly valid – until he took a pop at P2P lending.
  
  As I follow social banking – and as one of its great supporters, I had to disagree. But it raised an interesting question. How do we measure disruption?

  The writer in question was James Gardner, who’s the general manager of Spigot, the leading business process software vendor in the innovation space.

  In theory, he should know. But then he suggested that it could be “nearly 100%”. That sure had a disrupting effect on me – because that’s plain silly… continued over the page… >>

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• 21 Sep

  

  Written by
  Neil Robinson

  
  

  Category

  • banking
  • management
  • strategy

  PwC: they takes yer money… but was this really your choice?

  Business as usual for the global auditors. Its just like there was no banking crash. Pricewaterhouse Coopers – PwC – has just published its results.
  
  Three things jump off the page to me. And each mind-numbing fact reminds me just how stupid banks and enterprises really are.

  Firstly, PwC two main businesses turned over £900 Million and £650 Million each. The next is that UK Chairman Ian Powell will net a bonus of £3.7 Million.

  And thirdly, they took on 1,200 graduates – average age 24 – to work with clients. Congratulations. That waste-of-space intern is now costing you £2,500 a day… continued over the page… >>

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