Driven by an ‘evolve or die’ mindset, the financial services industry is increasingly embarking on intensive innovation and tech transformations in search of business advancements, however it can go horribly wrong. From the largest ‘legacy’ banks to the smallest ‘digital native’ start-ups, it is now common that transformation is considered critical to future success and is therefore found at the top of business agendas.
WBS are bringing together a panel of industry leaders to explore if the glossy industry rhetoric on the benefits of innovation and tech is hiding a nasty surprise - The scale of the challenge to actually deliver these within an operating business.
We will discuss how banks and other financial institutions address this challenge at both strategic and operational levels. In doing this we will explore some of the big questions:
- Is the industry in an evolve or die situation?
- Is there a formula to transformation success (or known pitfalls to be avoided)?
- Is delivery risk throttling innovation and tech roll-out?
- What are the effects of transformation on an organisation's people?
Panel:
Panel Moderator - Andrew Rowland, Programme Delivery Specialist at PwC - Andrew is a qualified Project Manager and Chartered Engineer with over fourteen years’ experience of delivering complex projects and programmes globally within highly regulated sectors. Andrew now specialises in leading his financial services clients through the delivery of their most complex, business critical programmes. Andrew's has a wealth of experience in delivering programmes of this type, which have ranged from regulatory driven Change, financial crime remediation to Brexit readiness.
Panellist - Tim Wray, Professors of Practice (Leadership and Organisational Change) and Director of Executive Education WBS - Tim has over twenty years’ experience as a practitioner, consultant and executive educator specialising in strategic change, leadership, organisational communication and employee engagement. A former Director of Executive Education at Nottingham University Business School in the UK, and the Irish Management Institute in Dublin, he has successfully delivered executive development programmes at senior levels for leading international companies in a range of sectors and has worked with the top teams of a number of large public sector organisations in the UK and Ireland.
Panellist - Max Eskell, Head of Product at Monese - Max spent ten years in the military serving all over the world. After a Warwick Exec MBA Max left the military and spend two years at McKinsey, where he focused on strategy, finance and building product. Max left McKinsey to build Zopa’s new bank. After building the new bank, Max moved to Monese to lead product. Max currently is responsible for sixteen product teams, expanding financial products across Europe.
Two further panellists to be announced shortly.
Schedule:
18:00 - Arrival, registration and welcome refreshments
18:30 - Panel commences, followed by Q&A
19:30 - Networking
20:30 - Event Closes