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International Hackathon for Banking Innovation

IdeaConnection

Last weekend, Barclays Bank organized what it claims was the largest hackathon in financial services across two continents, ever. The huge open innovation event, called Rise Hackathon: Episode II – The Bank Awakens saw 547 teams and 1,045 participants compete over 36 hours in Mumbai, India, and Manchester, UK.

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FinTech and Machine Learning

IdeaScale

According to Fortune Magazine, some of the top financial technology trends for 2017 are consumer trust, buying behavior, mobile banking, blockchain, cybersecurity, and access. This idea was shared in an internal innovation program called Up Squad. But perhaps best of all this prototype tool reduced failure demand (i.e.

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How KBC Bank Used Crowdsourced Innovation to Create Massive Employee Engagement

Planview

KBC Bank, a European bank and financial services leader , is an example of a company that experienced disruption first hand. Technology has fundamentally shifted how consumers interact with banks and other financial institutions. KBC, in fact, wanted innovation to be part of its DNA. Information breads insight.

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3. Asking for Ideas is a Bad Idea

Stephen Shapiro

It’s core to so much of my innovation work. Here’s a short snippet of the content: A large European retail bank that was suffering from eroding market share thought they had a great idea to solve this emerging problem. They believed that this would help them tap into previously undiscovered innovations.

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Rules of enterprise innovation

hackerearth

We know from our history that while promotions may win quarters, innovation wins decades.”. But for an innovation program to be efficient and successful, there are certain guidelines or best practices an organization needs to abide by. The transition from traditional to online banking happened took a century.

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Announcing the 2016 Innovation Management Award Winners

IdeaScale

The City of Calgary is the winner of the Best Engagement Strategy for their myCityInnovation campaign, an internal program which is part of the broader City innovation program Civic Innovation YYC. City of Calgary—Best Engagement Strategy. Congratulations to our winners! What We Learned.

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The Importance of Evidence Based Storytelling in Innovation

IM Insights

He has given keynotes, run workshops and worked as a consultant for several large organizations including Rabobank, American Express, Standard Bank, Unilever, Airbus, Pearson, Lufthansa-Airplus, The British Museum, Copenhagen Fintech and The Royal Academy of Engineers.

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