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Solve This Problem with Your Strategic Horizon

South State Correspondent

Strategic Horizon and Capital As mentioned, the problem that bank’s often run into when it comes to strategic planning is their time horizon is too short. The bank that will be around in the next 50 years will be one that develops the ability to build infrastructure now that allows for efficient innovation in the future.

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What Innovators Can Learn From Netflix

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But the one thing that might work is taking a page from the innovation playbook that Netflix seems to have written and followed over the last 22 years. In 2010, Blockbuster declared bankruptcy, a decade after famously telling Netflix, which then had $5 million in annual sales, to get lost when they suggested that Blockbuster buy them.

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Ten Years Of Payments Innovation And Reinvention

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As Seedrs CEO Jeff Kelisky told Karen Webster in a recent discussion, while most people in 2009 took one look at the sputtering and shuddering economy, there was a whole class of innovators and entrepreneurs who didn’t see a nuclear wasteland where the economy used to be. They saw a greenfield waiting to be planted. The list goes on.

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Smartwatch And AI Startup Mobvoi Close To $1B Valuation With Google’s Help

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Mobvoi was Google’s first direct China investment following the exit of its search engine from the country in 2010. The startup has a partnership with Google through its Voice Assistant and Wear operating system. It will also help Shanghai become an international financial center, as well as a hub for technology innovation.”.

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37 Corporate Innovation Labs In Finance

CB Insights

One popular approach: in-house financial innovation labs. We’ve created a list of finance innovation labs from some of the biggest names in the industry, as well as from newcomers looking to make a name through tech. We’ve written about corporate innovation theater before — and how sometimes corporate innovation goes wrong.

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Stripe, a $23 Billion Startup, Reckons With Waning Globalization

Bank Innovation

In 2010, when Patrick Collison founded Stripe Inc. with his younger brother John, he thought the world was headed toward ever-increasing globalization, economic stability and international commerce. Now, based on the events of the last couple years, no one holds “so Panglossian a view,” said the 30-year-old chief executive officer.

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Why Digital’s 3.0 Shift May Take Longer Than We Think

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There is an out-and-out frenzy to capitalize on the pandemic-fueled digital shift that gave consumers few options for accessing products and services over the last twelve weeks. Innovators with better tech will appear and — literally overnight — snatch your customers out of your calcified incumbent arms and build scale, they say.