customer experience

I am a new Cisco hire – Head of Financial Services Solutions & Innovation EMEAR and I just came back from Cisco Live Berlin. This is my first time at the event, having spent 30 years in banking. My first impression? Firstly, WOW! I have been a Cisco customer in previous banking roles and I thoug…

A mentor of mine once told me, “if you have trouble solving a problem, try innovating from the opposite direction.” Jimi Hendrix clearly understood this concept well. Being left handed, he was initially confounded by the lack of available left-handed Fender Stratocaster guitars. His solution was ing…

We are in the midst of the era of customer and workforce experience. I read one report predicting “by 2020, customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator.” Consumers and employees are more loyal to companies that go beyond products and services to deliver unique…

There is $1.3 trillion value at stake in the financial services industry projected by 2022. Capturing this value requires embracing today’s digital disruption and the major technology transitions of mobility, collaboration, cloud, big data analytics, and security. Join us at Cisco Live Berlin 2016 f…

“One of these days the ground will drop out from beneath your feet One of these days your heart will stop and play its final beat One of these days the clocks will stop and time won’t mean a thing” “These Days”, Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters  As we kick-off 2016, the time is now for in…

Remember 1995? That was the year we put ‘e’ in front of everything to signify that it was being done ‘electronically.’ eBusiness, eCRM, and eProcurement were all the rage. Fast forward to 2016 and we’ve dropped the ‘e’ because doing things electronically has become the norm.  The same will happen wi…

Do the names Linda Keith and Chas Chandler ring a bell? Well, without their influence, we may have never heard of Jim Hendrix. In May 1966, Keith ran into the then-obscure Hendrix playing at the Cheetah club in New York.  “He was astonishing – the moods he could bring to music, his charisma, h…

I am a millennial and my entire financial life fits in my front pocket. Whether I am setting up automatic credit card payments, paying a friend back for a dinner he paid for, making my monthly rent payment, or buying the latest Wall Street darling stock; it can all be accomplished with four or five…

How often do you bank? ? For me, it’s a few times a week, but more frequently when I have a few bills to pay. Today, digital technologies makes checking balances, transferring money and even depositing checks an “anytime, anywhere” process using apps and mobile devices. Banks and other financial ins…