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Break Through the Barriers to Your Project

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Do You Know How to Overcome the New Challenging Environment ?

The financial industry has changed in the last ten years: The environment has become more challenging:

  • Faster,
  • More complex (especially because of regulation), and
  • Less money is available for change projects.

The 2020 global crisis has made things even tougher for financial institutions.

Competition has been increasing. The real economy has been suffering. The Golden era of private banks is over. Jobs are threatened by layoffs.

So you want to change things, and kickstart (or restart) a project?

Is your company, department or team…”

  • Suffering from low margins? Too high costs?
  • Finding it hard to maintain compatibility with regulatory requirements? (Switzerland: Financial Services Act / FIDLEG / LSFIN)
  • Inefficient workflows ? Hours lost doing repetitive stuff?
  • Some operational issue has been bugging your company for years?
  • Some delayed project, which somehow never goes ahead?

How to achieve more with less?

  • Continue to develop soft skills, but want to acquire the necessary hard skills again ?
  • Untrained staff, who commit errors?
  • Lost know-how because experienced people left?

You will make the difference

  • You and your team (not your processes and not your systems) are the most important asset.
  • People (you) make the processes of your financial institution.
  • People will develop, install and maintain, the systems that will give a technological edge to your company.

Whether you work in a bank or for an independent financial firm, now is the right time for you to reassert yourself and change the way you and your team get things done.

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