About FinTech & Banking Innovation
What does FinTech & Banking Innovation mean to you?
This unique course teaches YOU the heads-on, nuts and bolts skills YOU need to lead (or work within) a team for innovation success.
All based on data, all based on real world, not based on 'theories' or waffle. Yes we cover the buzzwords - but every aspect of this is practical and real. Not in the way taught in most business schools, but focused solely on 'what steps do I have to do here'
Hands On REAL Financial Training - Not Theory
This course is designed for you and colleagues to develop and road-test real world plans for innovation during the course.
You will build an actual financial services innovation for your employer (current or future) while in the course!
Yes we will discuss and apply Ideation, Agile, Scrum, Design Thinking, Lean Processes, Human-Centred Design and much much more. But the key is APPLY.
We want YOU to master the practical skills - not just reciting the theories. This is DIFFERENT - it's practical, hands-on, truthful, rational training based around data.
How? Unique 2thinknow Data-Backed Process
The course includes a full workup of the innovation process derived from our world-leading data set (seen in the Innovation Cities™ Index in global media from Dubai to New York to London!)
The method is for the generation and implementation of innovative solutions to customer needs, in order to create and implement new Financial innovations inside a bank or a start-up.
YOU (and your team) will learn to think creatively, and end-to-end implement real financial innovations, including customer data research, project design, project management, risk management, social media, digital innovation and more insights and developments.
We will use real market data not seen elsewhere, and top case studies globally -- all provided by 2THINKNOW.
+ the Language to Supercharge your Banking & FinTech Career or Take the Jump to Hedge Funds
Don't be in the dark, while learning the PRACTICAL Skills... Also learn the key 'buzzwords' CRITICAL to your financial career and banks performance in a new world of un-banks:
Blockchain - NeoBank - Crypto - BitCoin - Banking the Under-Banked - IoT Internet of Things - Artificial Intelligence - Immersive Banking - 3D Thinking - SAAS (Software As A Service) - Digital Wallets - Micro Finance- Robotic Process Automation - Open Banking - Digital Transformation - Seamless Customer Experience - Big Data - Data Science - Algorithms - Data Stewardship - Smart Contracts - Agile - APIs - Open APIs - Machine Learning - Gamification - RegTech - Technology-Enabled Service - Location-Based Authorization - Data Analytics (of course) - Data-Centric Banking - Predictive Analytics and much more!
Even if you are not 'technology' or 'buzzword' minded, you will learn through practical case studies, and become a breakout success (or at least 'hold your own' if that's your aspiration) in your job.
MEET YOUR LEAD INSTRUCTOR, CHRISTOPHER HIRE
Top data analyst & down-to-earth instructor committed to your learning.
Christopher Hire currently oversees the data science program for 2thinknow since 2007. 2thinknow is famous for the world leading ranking of cities, the Innovation Cities™ Index as seen in 10,000+ media articles. Christopher is primarily a data practitioner, but is also spokesman and trainer on lead courses.
Primarily he focuses on imparting expertise to attendees through providing clear practical examples. He doesn't teach to speak, he prefers to impart knowledge with exercises and practical examples. His goal is your learning. He has in-depth experience in innovation related to finance, insurance (IAG), government and numerous sectors.
Christopher has the in-depth innovation expertise to back this up. He has worked or taught over 800 engagements using data to create innovation and change across 2thinknow and other organizations. Customers over his 18 years include data-heavy work for Samsung (Korea), Savills (UK), Deloitte (UK), ANZ (AU), Parliament of Victoria (AU), Hitachi (Japan), Fitch Ratings (AU) and several projects for 2 of the leading tier one management consultancies. He also works with tech and startup sectors from Melbourne, and in Silicon Valley.
Christopher attended the MBA program at AGSM, and studied Fine Arts in the fine University of Tasmania. He started his career on design for Coca-Cola projects. This allows him to express and teach the analytical and creative sides of innovation both. He's also a foodie, only supports losing football teams, and often forgetful.
DATA + INNOVATION IS ONE THIRD OR MORE OF MOST HIGH LEVEL JOBS NOW & ALMOST 100% OF A STARTUP!
Learn In-Demand Data-Driven Innovation in a Way You Can Use ONLY in our Course!
If you are creating banking and FinTech innovation, you have one job first! Don't f... foul up.
Seriously. No professor will tell you this. But that's your one job.
So we teach you the practical skills you need to follow that one job. So you get the best data, so you can argue rationally and logically for your new product.
Don't rely on woolly concepts like 'creativity' or something written by an obscure professor from Belgium. Rely on practical data and analytics to drive rational financial innovation, led by your expert instructor.
And remember, we teach you 'don't foul up' - which is safest for you and your employer.
Key Takeaways
As a participant you (and your colleagues) will be able to explain, discuss and model innovation in products and services. And you will have a plan to MAKE IT HAPPEN at the end of the course.
- Types of innovation
- Idea creation & generation models
- Idea selection models
- Financial innovation steps
- Trend analysis models for fintech
- Assessing idea feasibility and value
- Productisation models
- Service innovation creation models
- Crypto, blockchain and the technologies
- Agile & Rapid implementation planning
- Project management for innovation
- Data-led innovation
- Data science & innovation
- SAAS and new service models - ie banking as a service
- Implementation models for innovation projects
- Innovation as a Life-Cycle
- Structure of financial startups
- Tools & apps for innovation
- Risk assessment for innovation for finance
- Communication models for reporting ‘up’ and ‘out’
- New terminologies and correct usage
- Implementing innovation process checklist
- Communicating innovation to the market models
- Business case development for FinTech/banking
Course Overview
DAY 1 : INTRODUCTION: IDEAS TO INNOVATION
1. FinTech Innovation in Development – Blockchain & Beyond
2. Crypto & Developing Outside Innovation Sources
3. FinTech Innovation Global Case Studies
4. Innovation Once It’s Inside the Walls
DAY 2 : IMPLEMENTATION: FROM IDEA TO INNOVATION
5. Innovation Leadership for Banking Leaders
6. Leading Finance with Innovation
7. Paths to Implementing Innovation Projects
8. Advanced Innovation Product Development Strategies
DAY 3 : IMPLEMENTATION TO COMMUNICATION FOR SUCCESS
9. Run the Project like a Startup! [SITE VISIT]
10. Digital and Social Innovation
11. Reality - Managing Risk vs. Reward for Product Innovation
12. Delivering the Business Case
Group Presentations, Certificates & Photos.
While You'll ♥ Us - Experiential Learning
Forget dull classsroom learning only... Original 2thinknow activities like
Innovate like a Startup ♥ Fighting the Grinch ♥ the Handshake ♥ Gone Fishing ♥ Financial Nuclear Weapons ♥ Have You Met Barney? ♥ Another One Bites the Dust ♥ The Innovation Play List
These are specifically designed to make learning fun, and when it is fun you REMEMBER it. This is Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting - not another boring university snooze-fest. (sorry Professors!) But it's also deep and reality-based learning without waffle.
Create New FinTech Innovations: in the Room!
All 2thinknow courses on developing a list of real world outcomes in the room by the end of the course.
At the end of the course, YOU (and your team) will be able to list actual innovations you will implement with a real world plan!
Your ideas can be presented to all attendees (and outsiders) in joint group presentations. Of course you can also disguise them (and work on multiple ideas).
Attendees in Colombo & Kuala Lumpur have gone on to win awards for their bank!
Pre-Course Preparation
Please bring a laptop (or large screen tablet). You also will need to complete some pre-course survey including a copy of your CV or LinkedIn Profile. Note the course is only open to banking & finance professionals to maintain peer standards.
Become the best banking & finance innovator you can, be sharpen your skills...
And learn how to reduce risk and NOT to foul up!
"Articulate, knowledgeable and with a refreshing lack of jargon, barrow-pushing and other tech-talk …"
Public Courses
Melbourne, Australia
Join next scheduled course in Melbourne in July 11-13 2019.
Prague, CZ
Scheduled for August 2019 (partners)
Got a Group of 6 or More?
Book your own group course in any of the course locations below!
Suggested Customisations
Run this course in your own format as a 1-Day Extreme Banker Bootcamp (7-7) or 2 Day Supercharged at your offices or as part of your conference. Please ask to change modules or otherwise customize.
First version of this course was delivered in 2012 in Asia, and it is continually updated.