Management Consulting

In a recent interview, David Chapman, Director, Organizational Change Management, Perficient talked with Jason Thomas, Founder and Host of Hard Way MBA, about change management and the importance of answering the critical question of why? In the podcast, David talks about how change happens one individual at a time and why changing behavior is hard to do. He […]

Michael Porter, a colleague of mine, is live-blogging at this week’s Forrester CXNYC event, a conference for customer experience leaders, innovators, and practitioners. I wanted to share a session he sat through in which John Dalton, an analyst at Forrester, interviewed Alice Milligan, the chief customer and digital experience officer of Citi Cards at Citi. […]

We are live-blogging from Forrester’s CXNYC this week, the event for customer experience leaders, innovators, and practitioners. Culture is so important that it eats strategy for breakfast.  We looked at CX leaders and CX laggards across 21 different industries and asked questions: Do CX leaders and CX laggards describe their cultures in different terms. No, […]

Smart machines, which encompasses a group of cognitive computing technologies such as advanced machine learning, natural language processing, and prescriptive analytics to make decisions and solve problems without human intervention, have been receiving more attention in recent years due to the rise and success of solutions like IBM’s Watson. A smart application learns and adapts […]

MasterCard is looking at using artificial intelligence (AI) to help make businesses operate more efficiently. The global payment-technology company recently announced that it will be piloting a robot called Pepper, created by SoftBank Robotics. The robot will leverage MasterPass, MasterCard’s digital payment service solution that enables consumers to purchase from merchants. The first test for […]

The cloud is not new, but it remains incredibly important. Yes, leaders at financial services institutions continue to worry about the cloud’s ability to meet their strict security and privacy requirements. However, threats like cyberattacks are not stopping them from moving to the cloud. There are simply too many more advantages to operating in the […]

If there is one trend making more headlines than cybersecurity, it is digital. In a world in which people are now performing more searches on their mobile phones than on their computers, it is no surprise that financial institutions with legacy business models and strategies are flocking to adopt new technology that meets the expectations […]

HSBC recently announced that it’s going to cut 840 jobs in the UK and send them to offshore facilities. But, that shouldn’t come as a surprise. It’s all part of their grand plan to become a more efficient, cost-conscious financial services provider that can compete against competitors on a more even playing field. If you […]

My colleague, Elizabeth Dias, recently pointed me to a white paper from Akamai, the global leader in content delivery network (CDN) services, which discussed eight considerations for enabling digital transformation in financial services. For those not familiar with digital transformation, the trend revolves around using newer technology to improve the overall customer experience. It’s about […]

Understanding your clients is paramount. The more you know about them, the more effective you can be at winning their business. For the fifth year in a row, Gartner reports that business intelligence (BI) and analytics has remained the number one priority for financial services companies. In fact, the research firm forecasts that the BI […]

At the 2016 Association of Change Management Professionals (ACMP) 2016 Conference, one of the talks that caught my eye was called Top 7 Insights, Taking ECM to the Next Level by Jacqueline Iny.  This post represents part 2 of 2.   5.       Let the client do the work.  I had to really think about this […]

At the 2016 Association of Change Management Professionals (ACMP) 2016 Conference, one of the talks that caught my eye was called Top 7 Insights, Taking ECM to the Next Level by Jacqueline Iny.  While at first glance, many of these 7 insights seemed a bit off to me and with the limited presentation time, you […]