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The Banks Guide to scouting Fintech

Matthew Griffin

“Four of Europe’s largest banks reveal their Fintech scouting strategies and with one exception their approach won’t come as a surprise. As an Entrepreneur you’ve worked 247 365 and seen your bank balance dwindle. Attention is your oxygen so what can you do to stack the odds of being noticed in your favour? ”. Check your Mirrors.

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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 billion in 2015.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. In 2015 Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5 Jeff Immelt ran GE for 16 years. of the company.

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50 what-if questions to reimagine the future

Board of Innovation

50 what-if questions to reimagine the future We have handpicked a selection of trends & shifts in technology to help you come up with more relevant business ideas. What if you owned your own bank? What if you made room to incubate 1,000 start-ups? : find new ideas and examples to disrupt your industry.

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Six Internal Innovation Sources You should know

ITONICS

Technology-intensive large corporations such as Microsoft and IBM actively conduct basic research internally in dedicated research centers. Due to differing customer needs across different markets, the French energy giant Schneider Electric created within-unit bodies for each line of business to manage its own R&D. Intrapreneurs.

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6 Internal Sources of Innovation

ITONICS

Technology-intensive large corporations such as Microsoft and IBM actively conduct basic research internally in dedicated research centers. Due to differing customer needs across different markets, the French energy giant Schneider Electric created within-unit bodies for each line of business to manage its own R&D. Intrapreneurs.

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Bitcoin’s Highs and Lows: Where to Next?

Daniel Burrus

Cryptocurrency uses peer-to-peer technology, similar to the file-sharing technology of the early 2000s. Cryptocurrencies are here to stay, including the underlying technology (blockchain) that enables them to function. Due to its open-source nature and its copyright-free core program, there will always be room for improvement.

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