The future of ICT in financial services: The Rabobank ICT scenarios - Softcover

Erasmus, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1502733757 ISBN 13: 9781502733757

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2008

Synopsis

Scenario thinking, introduced in business by Shell Group Planning in the 1970s, has evolved as a powerful methodology for enabling organisations to structurally anticipate change and incorporate external uncertainty into the internal decision-making processes. In 2008 Daniel Erasmus captured the DTN scenario thinking methodology together in a case history of a Rabobank scenario project, The Future of ICT in Financial Services. Released in August 2008 it explores the future role of IT in financial services in response to the opportunities of outsourcing, lifestyle banking, consolidation and the challenge of a pending global financial crisis. The book sketches both the final scenarios and the journey of the executive team to grasp the changing environment.

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About the Author

Since 1996 Daniel Erasmus is a leading futurist and thinker, conducting scenario processes on technology, governance, education and the environment for governmental, foundation, and corporate clients. Daniel is a founder and director of the Digital Thinking Network (DTN), a consulting firm that provides scenario thinking and process transformation, and the inventor of the analytical platform NewsConsole. NewsConsole is used by large organizations interested in looking ahead, integrating more than a quarter-million sources, reading over a million articles per day and making big data approachable at human scale using a variety of sophisticated semantic analysis algorithms. With an international staff, Daniel has worked with clients that include Nokia, Rabobank, the city Rotterdam, Shell, Schlumberger, Sanoma, Telenor, Vodafone, KONE, and the Dutch Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Economic Affairs, and Spatial Planning. The outcomes of DTN scenarios brought € 400 million in additional valuation to its clients since 2001. DTN scenarios have anticipated the 2008 global financial crisis by two years, a 200% increase in global oil prices, the foundering of the European constitution, shifts to online and mobile television viewing, the rise of the Internet, the long recession that followed the dot com-crash, delays in 3G implementation and the dominance of WiFi, the failure of WAP and the success of SMS. Foundational to the DTN's unique scenario planning capabilities are the in-depth interviews that Daniel has conducted with more than one thousand notable and influential thinkers, ranging from Prime Minister Jenny Shipley, industrialist Natarajan Chandrasekaran, technologists Doug Englebart and Danny Hillis, to legal scholar Yochai Benkler. The DTN’s public sector transformations include the Economic Development Board of Rotterdam’s creation of an International Advisory Board and the groundbreaking initiative to halve Rotterdam’s CO2 emissions by 2025 and to transform Rotterdam into Europe’s leading intercultural city. In addition to his consulting work, Daniel is a fellow of the Rotterdam School of Management and a visiting professor at Ashridge Business School . He has lectured on the topic of scenario thinking to more than a thousand executives and post graduate MBA students at companies and business schools from Helsinki to Cape Town, Paris to Seoul.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1502733757
• ISBN 13: 9781502733757
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288