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How President Lula da Silva should help the poor in Brazil this time?

Christensen Institute

trillion high in 2011, Brazil’s GDP in 2021 shrunk to $1.6 For example, consider how Nubank, a Brazilian financial technology company, is creating access to banking services for millions of Brazilians. Nubank co-founder, David Velez, experienced the struggle of opening a bank account and figured many others had similar struggles.

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71 Innovation Methodologies

Open Innovation EU

Focus stage: Maturity Published: 2011 more…. Focus stage: Early-stage Published: 2011 more…. Focus stage: Early-stage Published: 2011 more…. Focus stage: Maturity Published: 2011 more…. Citizen-Drive Innovation (World Bank). Innovation Cycle (Avans). Focus stage: Growth Published: 2013 more…. The Lean Enterprise.

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When Pundits Say That Robots Will Take Our Jobs, Remember These 4 Things

Innovation Excellence

The number of bank tellers has doubled since ATMs were introduced. In a similar way we don’t expect bank tellers to process transactions any more, but to help us with things that we can’t do at an ATM. Let’s think back to what a traditional bank looked like before ATMs or the Internet. Good service was fast service.

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When Disruption Becomes Destructive: How Can Financial Services Companies Close the Innovation Gap?

Qmarkets

caption id="attachment_40714" align="alignright" width="438"] The speed of change in the banking industry has CEOs more concerned than in any other industry. The combined valuation of the top 50 banks worldwide make up almost one-third of this number: a whopping $4.3 banks are among the 10 least-loved brands by the millennials.

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Effective Non-Contact Innovation

100%Open

Since 2011 we have hosted a grand total of 36 Union events, but Summer Union 2020 was the first of its kind as it was entirely virtual from farm to fork – from our first brainstorm to the execution of the event itself. As of Thursday the 18th of June, our first online Union went live!

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Why Software Won’t Eat The World

Innovation Excellence

In 2011, technology pioneer Marc Andreessen declared that software is eating the world. Unlike back east, where businesses depended on stodgy banks for finance, on the west coast venture capitalists, many of whom were former engineers themselves, would decide which technology companies got funded.

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Wells Fargo’s CEO is Gone, But What About the Board, Compliance and the Other Execs?

Adam Hartung

CEO Stumpf’s testified to Congress that he didn’t know the details of what was happening at the lower levels of his bank. Any competent Chief Compliance Officer had to know, after five-plus years of firings, that the practices violated multiple banking practice laws. ” Really? He must have informed the CEO.

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