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The Battle for Relevancy
Social media is changing everything, especially in the retail business. Over the past twelve months, we have seen banks enabling features...


Taking the robot out of humans
Most of us who follow the latest themes and trends in banking are aware of the drive towards robotics and artificial intelligence. The...


Lipstick on a Gorilla
Why is it that more and more bank CEO’s I meet are happy to deliver piece-meal patched up solutions to their network challenges that...


Thinking Big
There is a wind of change continues to blow across the banking industry. The big question on the minds of bankers I meet at the moment is...


When Digital Works, Growth Happens
Now I have your attention, I want to start this article by correcting the title, it should read ‘When Customer Experience Works, Growth...


How Digital Can Catapult Your Business Forward?
A number of my readers have teased me this week about being so grumpy in my recent posts especially the last one (Tell me what I CAN...


Tell me what I CAN have, not what I can’t
How many readers of this blog have been into a store, or come to think of it, any retailer and been told they can’t buy what they went...


Digital: The beginning of the end for segmentation?
We are all familiar with Google, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp etc, the backbone of search and communication tools on the web. We see...


Mumbai Express Rickshaw Challenge
For the past two weeks, Mark Howman and I have been participating in the Mumbai Express Rickshaw Challenge. A 1950km race across India...


Why the middle of the Diamond matters
I read with interest an article published in The Pakistani Tribune (@PakistanTribune) explaining that the market in this, and other...


Don't mention 'Branch of the Future'
Those of you who are old enough to remember Blake’s 7, or Space 1999 will remember the terribly designed sets, with shiny surfaces and...


Mobile Banking: Not the only answer
So many CEO’s that I meet around the region confess with a smile on their faces that ‘Mobile Banking is the Way Forward’. That, if you...