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🌐 Ops Insight: Avoid transformation failure by addressing employee resistance early.
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🌐 Next Week: Fix fragility in banking tech before it breaks your core.
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The 500-Page Report Nobody Reads
More data isn’t more insight, t’s just more noise. Banks are generating massive reports daily, but if no one reads them, they’re not helping. This piece explores how report sprawl, outdated habits, and misaligned metrics are draining time, hiding risk, and blocking decisions. Learn how to shift from ritualized reporting to actionable insight, and start turning data into results. |
Ready to explore? Dive into the highlights to see how leaders in the banking space are tackling innovation, efficiency, and scalability head-on. Let these stories inspire your own transformation journey. |
The Role of Leadership in
Core Banking Success
Core banking overhauls succeed not because of platforms, but because of strong, visionary leadership. This article breaks down the five leadership traits that separate thriving banks from struggling ones, from setting clear goals and managing change to building resilient teams and driving innovation from the top.
The Meeting About the Meeting
When endless planning becomes the biggest blocker to progress. In core banking transformation, meetings are essential, but when your calendar fills with alignment sessions and pre-kickoff calls, momentum stalls. This article breaks down how meeting overload kills execution, why it’s especially common in high-stakes projects, and how to shift from performative planning to real progress.
How Employee Resistance Can Sabotage Transformation
Even the best platforms fail when wrapped around bad processes. We reveal five critical failure points and how to sidestep them.
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