Business Strategy
Org design isn't a people chart, it's the foundation of a good company culture
Organisation design is essential in building a strong working culture. Getting it wrong can cause a domino effect of problems and inefficiencies across a busine...
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I’ve incentivised innovation, why aren’t my employees innovating?
Despite attempts to portray the opposite, traditional financial organisations are struggling to innovate. In fact in many cases they are having to spend a fortu...
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Are you producing prototypes too early?
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What FS companies are getting wrong with their cloud based solutions
Everyone’s got a bike these days, right? How many bikes would you admit to owning? Is your ‘multi-bike’ strategy paying off? Now ask yourself the same questions...
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The value of quality in tech
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DeFi & Stablecoins: Africa's new savings vehicle
Africa is the most worthy market for mainstream adoption of decentralised finance. Why? I could go on and on about the underbanked, underserved populations and ...
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5 Insights from Under The Hood
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Lending in Africa: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
I’d like to start this by stating that Africa is not a monolith and for the purpose of this post, I’ll be zeroing in on the East and West African markets. This...
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Do you have enough technology understanding in your Compliance team?
GDPR, MiFID II, Solvency II, SCA, PSD2, Brexit… The past decade has been pretty hard on Compliance teams if not only for all the acronyms they need to remember.
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Pace of change is a power law
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My 11 lessons after 5 years as 11:FS CEO
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