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Boost efficiency through operational innovation in financial services

Insights on Business

Operational innovation is vital in a highly competitive financial services sector, with a new community of digital banks and other firms vying for market share. Drivers for Operational Innovation. These terms look good on paper, but what do they mean in practice for operational innovation?

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Driving Contact Center Innovation in Uncertain Times

Perficient

It’s also a great time to think about innovation. I would like to talk about how Twilio Flex and other services from Twilio can provide some clear ways not only to manage these immediate concerns, but also to drive innovations in how you interact with your customers. Here are some examples: Call Deflection Strategies.

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FinTech Innovation Eases B2C Sellers’ Entrance Into The B2B World

PYMNTS

The takeover signaled an evolution of the company's business model from a traditionally business-to-consumer (B2C) seller, to one that includes business-to-business (B2B) operations. It was also indicative of a growing trend of B2C merchants expanding into the B2B realm in an effort to take advantage of a surging market. Connectivity is key.

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Innovation Is Key to Credit Union Survival

PYMNTS

The 2020 Credit Union Innovation Index , conducted in partnership with PSCU , found that over 20 percent of members would drop their current CU over lack of innovation. The share of CU members reporting they were willing to change primary FIs over insufficient innovation increased by 4.6 percent to 21.9 Competitive Threats.

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How 45 Pct Of Old-School SMBs Plan To Innovate

PYMNTS

In today’s digital economy, with shopping as easy as the tap of a finger on a smartphone screen, brick-and-mortar retail businesses have no choice but to innovate to keep and grow their clientele. At the same time, many consumer services firms recognize the value that specific technological applications can bring to their operations.

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What Innovators Can Learn From Netflix

PYMNTS

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. A combination of forces — Netflix’s own content and technology innovations and advances in hardware and software — helped them consistently attract more eyeballs.

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Charles Potts: Back-office innovation

Independent Banker

Community bankers are embracing innovation like never before—with impressive results. But with so much emphasis placed on customer-facing products and technologies, innovating back-office operations can fall to the bottom of the priority list. Unbundle your end-to-end operations and conduct a SWOT analysis.