This week, Dave was invited to host a strategy session to the Board of a Payments company in London. The team looked at the Blockchain starting with the basics and looking at potential future scenarios. Dave gave a short, interactive presentation, left them with handouts of suggested further reading and Read more…
When I’m working on strategy with financial organisations, I often find the Bodie and Crane classification (Harvard Business Review, 1996) a useful basis. This gives me a model that sees banks as a bundle of six basic functions: three core transfer functions and three interaction functions. The core functions are transfers in time (credit Read more…
Much of the advisory work that we do results in, inevitably, an executive report. Sketching out the high-level contents of these reports turns out to be one of the most important contributions that we can make to the process, because the outline becomes scaffolding to support the devolution of thought, Read more…