7Enterprise Innovation
Executive Summary
Innovation has become a key priority for most banks and asset managers, however really transforming an organization and changing its culture into a more agile, entrepreneurial structure is easier said than done. Today’s digitization efforts of banks mostly focus on client channels and back-office automation, thereby neglecting the creation of new business and revenue models, new innovative products and solutions, and digital content. Wealth management decisions are still predominantly based on expert human judgement. However, by sticking to traditional investment concepts, banks risk losing ground to more innovative new market entrants in the FinTech and WealthTech space and challenger banks. Banks who digitize their wealth management and offer digital solutions in coexistence with traditional ones will capitalize on growth opportunities and strengthen their profitability. In general, innovation has four core characteristics. First, innovations relate to an object like a product, a process or a business model. Second, innovations can either be incremental or radical/disruptive, depending on their potential to change existing products and/or industry structures. Third, innovations require a structured approach to a company’s innovation management capabilities – like incubators, open application programming interfaces (APIs), etc. Fourth, ...
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