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Revolution! Now!

The technology explosion is making so many new far reaching opportunities visible that new challenges have appeared or old ones have become even more challenging. The first that many of us meet in our innovation work is the difficulty to choose between exponentially growing alternatives. The second one is to get our audience to understand that de

12 November 2015 /payments Innovation in Financial Services

Bo Harald

e-invoicing - natural part of payment services

Banks in Finland had signed up 217 000 enterprises for sending e-invoices - and 234 000 for receiving at the end of 2014. Corresponding potential for EU: 15,7 and 16,8 million. 3,9 million consumers were signed up for receiving e-invoices. Corresponding EU-potential 280,8 million. The number of e-banking contracts exceeds the population in Finlan...

18 August 2015 Innovation in Financial Services

Bo Harald

e-ID as a service

e-banking customers in Finland used their e-banking passwords 56,2 million times to log in to public sector and other non-banking services last year. Up from 47,1m. Finland is a small country - so it may be useful to multiply into a corresponding EU-potential = 4 billion times. Does this save tax payers' money? Does it save citizens nerves? Oh ye...

18 August 2015 Innovation in Financial Services

Bo Harald

Mobile first by now.

History: http://www.mobeyforum.org/a-view-from-the-top-15-years-through-the-eyes-of-mobey-forums-chairmen/ https://www.linkedin.com/grp/post/3441551-6018710260271902722 Without co-operation, no standardization, without standardization no competition, without competion no progess... or very-very little..

23 June 2015 Innovation in Financial Services

Bo Harald

Mr Same Guy - language collection..

03 June 2015 Innovation in Financial Services

Bo Harald

There are no corporate customers.. only Mr Same Guy

And no private customers either - just human customers in several roles. A legal person has btw never done anything. So remember this when you create services. Same user experience across roles - and across services. Primary example is to allow use of e-banking codes as ID in other services that need a strong e-id - and then use them also for signi...

03 June 2015

Bo Harald

The second pyramid - huge value

One picture says it all.

12 May 2015 /payments Innovation in Financial Services

Bo Harald

We have to speed up the progression to full automation

Service to person - proactively suggesting (big data aided) things to do (and for receivers to accept in mobile phones and other devices) is an important step. But automated service to service is on obvious area to target already now.

08 May 2015 /payments Innovation in Financial Services

Bo Harald

In a small country you can advance faster

Very topical blogpost here: http://perspectives.tieto.com/blog/2015/03/challenge-blog-post-real-time-economy/

05 April 2015 /payments Innovation in Financial Services

Bo Harald

Step by step to a Real Time Economy

Never has there been more opportunities to build new ecosystems and infrastructures - and interconnect them. A very interesting aspect in this work is to see how one new or improved ecosystem is acting as a lever for other ecosystems. Examples: - payments for e-banking, - e-banking for e-id, e-id for e-signatures - e-banking for e-invoicing, e-invo...

28 March 2015 Innovation in Financial Services

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