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New ideas require a culture of discovery
Ulrich Dietz, Chairman of the Executive Board
Dear readers,
To be successful, you need to stay focussed on one thing: the new. Keeping one step ahead of the competition means actively allowing people to come up with innovations and new-fangled ideas. In global markets, it’s the only way to remain competitive. But to achieve this, you have to liberate yourself from the shackles that maintain the status quo. You have to give free rein to enquiring minds and the drive to discover. As an IT business, we’re committed to a society characterised by a culture of discovery. We make it our business to provide people with a framework for exploring their own creativity and pioneering spirit – as a catalyst to further progress.
We’d like to use the following three examples to show how to successfully generate new momentum in the IT industry and how innovative ideas can be fostered:
It wasn’t just the financial crisis that suddenly made ‘suitability’ important to investment consulting – although the image loss resulting from the collapse of the banking system did provide a fillip to re-think customer-based consulting concepts, especially by drawing on IT processes. Intelligent solutions such as GFT’s a-touch make it possible to automate processes and thus remove unnecessary bureaucracy from consultation sessions while adhering to legal requirements. This ensures that customer interests and the target of investment stay firmly centre-stage during consultation sessions. …more
Very few areas of the business can claim to be as fast-moving as sales. Services and products have to be matched carefully to customer needs; customer behaviour requires continual analysis; new distribution channels need investigating and accessing. Central to this is the ability to integrate and dovetail a variety of channels, thereby making it possible to cut costs and leverage synergies ...more
Since the advent of electronic payment systems, the banking industry has been on a constant look-out for ways to make cashless transaction methods more secure – and biometric technology is one of the most promising approaches. Although the potential benefits of biometrics have been understood for a long time, until now there has been no real motivation to put this technology into practice. But new technologies are now providing the necessary breakthrough. In initial pilot studies, GFT is now testing biometric identification techniques for use in the banking sector. ...more
Ulrich Dietz,
Chairman of the Executive Board
To be successful, you need to stay focussed on one thing: the new. Keeping one step ahead of the competition means actively allowing people to come up with innovations and new-fangled ideas. In global markets, it’s the only way to remain competitive. But to achieve this, you have to liberate yourself from the shackles that maintain the status quo. You have to give free rein to enquiring minds and the drive to discover. As an IT business, we’re committed to a society characterised by a culture of discovery. We make it our business to provide people with a framework for exploring their own creativity and pioneering spirit – as a catalyst to further progress.
We’d like to use the following three examples to show how to successfully generate new momentum in the IT industry and how innovative ideas can be fostered:
It wasn’t just the financial crisis that suddenly made ‘suitability’ important to investment consulting – although the image loss resulting from the collapse of the banking system did provide a fillip to re-think customer-based consulting concepts, especially by drawing on IT processes. Intelligent solutions such as GFT’s a-touch make it possible to automate processes and thus remove unnecessary bureaucracy from consultation sessions while adhering to legal requirements. This ensures that customer interests and the target of investment stay firmly centre-stage during consultation sessions. …more
Very few areas of the business can claim to be as fast-moving as sales. Services and products have to be matched carefully to customer needs; customer behaviour requires continual analysis; new distribution channels need investigating and accessing. Central to this is the ability to integrate and dovetail a variety of channels, thereby making it possible to cut costs and leverage synergies ...more
Since the advent of electronic payment systems, the banking industry has been on a constant look-out for ways to make cashless transaction methods more secure – and biometric technology is one of the most promising approaches. Although the potential benefits of biometrics have been understood for a long time, until now there has been no real motivation to put this technology into practice. But new technologies are now providing the necessary breakthrough. In initial pilot studies, GFT is now testing biometric identification techniques for use in the banking sector. ...more
Ulrich Dietz,
Chairman of the Executive Board
Ulrich Dietz
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