Silo Management
Printer-friendly version (PDF) Years ago, I answered a call from the head of a bank with assets below $1Billion. Until then, FIC had focused on regional and what were once…
Raises issues for senior management consideration, including organization, compensation, and macro topics.
Printer-friendly version (PDF) Years ago, I answered a call from the head of a bank with assets below $1Billion. Until then, FIC had focused on regional and what were once…
Printer-friendly version (PDF) Last week I wrote that as of last Sunday afternoon, the 8th, I could find no bank websites with any mention of how they were addressing the…
Printer-friendly version (PDF) It is because of LinkedIn that I was reminded that I started FIC 25 years ago this month. The welcome electronic congratulatory messages I received, some from…
Printer-friendly version (PDF) Spring training has begun for baseball. It is the time of year when, if you live in Northern climates, you begin to believe that the cold will…
Printer-friendly version (PDF) This week’s newsletter was meant to be about how banks can offer digitally-based relationship management, reflecting the shift occurring in banking as more clients move to digitally-enabled…
Printer-friendly version (PDF) As outlined in two earlier FIC newsletters, the Deep State within banks (in short, bureaucrats, inflexible rule setters, innovation killers,) slows decision making, increases operating costs, marginalizes…
Printer-friendly version (PDF) Last week this newsletter focused on discussing the existence of a Deep State in banking that, in its own way, is every bit as powerful as the…
Printer-friendly version (PDF) Many banks are being run or at a minimum highly influenced by the entrenched Deep States operating within them. The Deep State group in banks is every…
Printer-friendly version (PDF) “It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.” – Roy Disney Last week, a client told me, “We’ve got a long list…
Printer-friendly version (PDF) Companies need to pick their spots, deciding where to focus and whom to focus on. Inevitably, banks that do not focus and act selectively in what they…