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#innotribe at #sibos 2011

I've been invited to SIBOS this year to be a “professional challenger” in the innotribe stream.  I interpret this as being a “professional troublemaker”, which I’m very good at, but they reinterpreted this to the more acceptable terminology to get the management team buy-in. No worries. By now, if you’ve been to SIBOS before you should know…

Innotribe

#innotribe at #sibos 2011

I've been invited to SIBOS this year to be a “professional challenger” in the innotribe stream.  I interpret this as being a “professional troublemaker”, which I’m very good at, but they reinterpreted this to the more acceptable terminology to get the management team buy-in. No worries. By now, if you’ve been to SIBOS before you should know…

Innotribe

Iceland: the banks blot or gift?

My last blog about Iceland for the moment, but a worthy one. In Reykjavik, a city of 120,000 people (200,000 in the Greater Reykjavik region).  By comparison, this is the size of Watford, the UK’s 59th largest town, or Dudley (26th) if you use the larger figure. On the harbour front in Reykjavik, they have…

Harpa-Concert-Hall-001

Iceland: the banks blot or gift?

My last blog about Iceland for the moment, but a worthy one. In Reykjavik, a city of 120,000 people (200,000 in the Greater Reykjavik region).  By comparison, this is the size of Watford, the UK’s 59th largest town, or Dudley (26th) if you use the larger figure. On the harbour front in Reykjavik, they have…

Harpa-Concert-Hall-001

Who owns Iceland?

There’s been a fascinating debate going on online about Iceland this month. Not surprising as Iceland is still involved in a $3.5 billion dispute with the UK and Netherlands over the collapse of Icesave. This is still a running sore in relations between these nations, but hopefully will be resolved soon. The Icesave disaster is…

Finformation warfare

Just had a great discussion about segmentation today, building on yesterday’s blog entry. The old homogenisation of customers into apples and pears, oranges and lemons, goes back to a simplistic time of the 1980s, where the analytics tools could not mine customer data to a segment of one. Today, these tools can do this and…

Customer segmentation in retail banking

Adkit, an international research firm, just sent me their insights into customer segmentation in retail banking.  It’s an interesting report summarised in a 21-slide presentation. The main results show that most banks are narrowing down to three or four key customer segments. In the UK, we normally call these oranges, lemons, apples and pears.  Apples…

Wanna see the iPhone 5?

Forget the news of Steve Jobs resignation as everyone's far more interested in the iPhone5. Is this the new iPhone5?

Data can be currency, just like salt

We are living in times where I often talk about data being our new currency, and that data is more valuable than money or gold in the context of modern life. This may sound like a joke, but historically we have often migrated value and meaning from different objects as our means of trade. In…

Data can be currency, just like salt

We are living in times where I often talk about data being our new currency, and that data is more valuable than money or gold in the context of modern life. This may sound like a joke, but historically we have often migrated value and meaning from different objects as our means of trade. In…

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