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How Israel’s Oldest Bank Is Engaging Employees to Become a Leader in Banking Innovation

Qmarkets

In 2013, Bank Leumi embarked on a journey to make innovation one of its prime strategic goals. In order to achieve this goal, the Bank undertook an initiative to change their corporate culture, so every employee would see innovation as part of their daily work; an aim they should constantly aspire to. Ran: Exactly.

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How to Keep Innovating During an Economic Crisis

Innov8rs

Embrace a different mindset about those obstacles, and think about the situation in three ways: Acknowledge reality: Accept that everyone is struggling, even the major tech companies and big banks. Review your company's innovation practices, reassess your approach, and build capacity for the future.

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How KBC Bank Used Crowdsourced Innovation to Create Massive Employee Engagement

Planview

On the off chance an idea is shared, it gets lost in translation due to informal processes or too many hoops to jump through to reach a decision maker. KBC Bank, a European bank and financial services leader , is an example of a company that experienced disruption first hand. A critical factor in fending off disruption.

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BIG Ideas: How ICL Built a Billion Dollar Innovation Accelerator

Qmarkets

Croitoru’s background is in accounting and investment banking, and this informed his objective to treat innovation in the same way as financial results. If ICL met quarterly to review those, why not treat innovation with the same transparency? The BIG Basics: the core principles of ICL’s idea management program Here’s how it works.

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Intentionality and the Differentiating Competitive Advantage 

Planview

The data measures the flow of business value through all the activities involved in a software value stream. We see disparity for companies in the same industry, with some delivering business value via their software delivery at three times their prior speed once they start focusing on flow of business value.

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How to turn a Multinational Automotive-Finance Company into an Innovation Powerhouse

Qmarkets

With over 3,100 employees across 36 companies, RCI Bank and Services is a multinational finance company which is focused on delivering innovative services to customers of the Renault and Nissan automotive groups. Qmarkets: And what were some of the challenges faces specifically by RCI Bank?

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Hackathons simplified

hackerearth

A hackathon , also known as a codefest, is typically a day-long coding competition where a bunch of software developers, computer programmers, designers, and others join hands to improve upon or build a new software program. Accenture—Hiring coding enthusiasts through the Hack Diva challenge. Hackathons for hiring.