Leadership Insights Blog by Peter Alkema
People Centric Security – Thoughts from CIOs
By Peter Alkema |
Whether trying to find ways to work around official systems to get on with their work or with more unethical intentions at heart, people are often seen as the weakest link in the security chain. How can CIOs reduce PoPI liabilities resulting from employees’ actions that compromise data protection? Employee actions that compromise data protection …
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FNB and Easy Equities win big at Finance Indaba’s FinTech Africa Awards
By Peter Alkema |
FNB has won Most Innovative Bank in Africa and Easy Equities was named Best African Fintech company for 2016. Economic inclusion and transformation were big themes at this year’s Finance Indaba where the Fintech Africa Awards also held its final round of judging and awards. The Finance Indaba is the biggest annual event on the …
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Thomson Reuters launches first African innovation lab in Cape Town
By Peter Alkema |
The Bandwidth Barn in Cape Town saw the launch of Thomson Reuters’ newest innovation lab which is the first lab in Africa in its global network of Boston, Canada, London and Zurich. The Bandwidth Barn is a technology centred community in the heart of Cape Town’s startup ecosystem. The Labs drive innovation through driving creative …
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6 Hot Trends In 2017
By Peter Alkema |
Retail The race for “share of mobile” will heat up in 2017 with 53% of global consumers already feeling anxious when their mobile device isn’t near them according to the latest global Nielsen Mobile Shopping, Banking and Payment Survey. South Africa was listed as having one of the highest self-reported rates of participation in banking …
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New Imperatives for Leadership and Innovation
By Peter Alkema |
This article is an excerpt from a white paper co-authored by Peter Alkema and Dr Jeff Yu-Chen from Gibs University. In this white paper, you will gain valuable insights about Blockchain and bitcoin; how it works and why it is a threat Customer-centric design thinking and why banks need it The rise of digital customers, …
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The Rise of Blockchain
By Peter Alkema |
This article is an excerpt from a white paper co-authored by Peter Alkema and Dr Jeff Yu-Chen from Gibs University. The most impactful breakthrough disruptions Blockchain is probably one of the most impactful breakthrough disruptions in recent years. Anchored on the distributed ledger algorithm that enables peer-to- peer money transactions without a third party such …
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Customers’ Preference for Ubiquitous Banking
By Peter Alkema |
This article is an excerpt from a white paper co-authored by Peter Alkema and Dr Jeff Yu-Chen from Gibs University. Customers are increasingly relying on various smart technologies in daily life. Younger customers in most countries continue to make use of mobile devices more frequently for their banking transactions than any other forms of banking. …
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Customers’ preference for ubiquitous banking (continued)
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This article is an excerpt from a white paper co-authored by Peter Alkema and Dr Jeff Yu-Chen from Gibs University. Customers are increasingly relying on various smart technologies in daily life – Part 2 Read Part 1 Ubiquitous banking also requires taking customers’ behaviour as the focal point and designing services accordingly. Investments in big …
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Leaders’ Responses
By Peter Alkema |
This article is an excerpt from a white paper co-authored by Peter Alkema and Dr Jeff Yu-Chen from Gibs University. Innovation is an imperative for banks operating in the emerging market The pressure of new market entrants and the billions of currently unbanked potential customers require entirely new ways of doing business. Some banks are …
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New imperatives for leadership and innovation
By Peter Alkema |
This article is an excerpt from a white paper co-authored by Peter Alkema and Dr Jeff Yu-Chen from Gibs University. The “network effect” is what helps achieve such pace: The more customers join, the more it creates compound benefits for existing users. Facebook’s early growth was deceptive, but when it started doubling large numbers they …
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Prioritising self-disruption
By Peter Alkema |
This article is an excerpt from a white paper co-authored by Peter Alkema and Dr Jeff Yu-Chen from Gibs University. The success of Facebook as an organisation has often left people pondering how it constantly inspires its employees to reinvent the social networking site. After Facebook reached one billion users in late 2012, each new …
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Leveraging cloud as a disruption enabler
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This article is an excerpt from a white paper co-authored by Peter Alkema and Dr Jeff Yu-Chen from Gibs University. Another technology innovation that offers disruptive tendencies is Cloud. Essentially, it’s a pay-per-use model that offers a short-term, cost effective alternative to on-site fixed infrastructure. An enterprise can move applications “to the Cloud” where a …
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