by Erin McCune | May 12, 2008
Benchmarking is a critical first step in identifying opportunities for process improvement. Used correctly, benchmarking allows companies to compare their processes versus the best practices in their industry and develop a road map of how to adopt best practices...
by Erin McCune | Apr 29, 2008
I am live blogging from Finovate Startup in San Francisco. Jim Bruene and his team at NetBanker have gathered 40 startups, rebrandings, and company debuts in online banking and finance. Each participant has a brief 5 minutes to demo their product so I’ll be typing as...
by Erin McCune | Apr 10, 2008
This is a follow up to yesterday's post on prediction markets. You can try it yourself – the Freakonomics team have partnered with Predictify on the Freakonomics Prediction Center. And if you want more, Predictify allows you to both ask questions and make...
by Erin McCune | Nov 9, 2007
The November issue of Bank Technology News features an annual listing of the most innovative people, companies, and technologies. The technological strides featured in the ranking include next-generation payments and mobile banking, improved data analysis, more...
by Erin McCune | Sep 28, 2007
Bank Systems & Technology has a thorough article today on the various challenges facing commercial banks as they fight commodization of their core transaction processing capabilities. The need to differentiate on service to overcome product commoditization is...
