After a busy first three months of getting into the flow with Hitachi Consulting I'm finally ready to start blogging again. If you'll tolerate me stuggling through my first few posts, I hope to coherently share what I'm seeing in the market this year--and what I'd like to see--as it relates to financial services technology.
My list of financial services technology trends, in no particular order, looks like:
- Delivery Evolution: What's happening, how is volume shifting, and how are FIs accommodating their increasingly mobile workforce?
- Mobile Payments: What's happening these days with the "goat rodeo" (thank you Drew Sievers) that is mobile payments?
- Core Transformation: What factors are driving modernization and when will a non-U.S. player gain traction in the U.S.?
- Big Data: How are FIs leveraging more computing, network, and storage power to gain insight into customer behavior?
- Regulatory Priorities: Just how badly has recent regulation tied up limited I.T. resources and what FIs are making the best of it?
- Revenue Replacement: How are FIs filling the revenue hole that recent regulation has created?
- Real-time: Beyond fraud detection, how are FIs using real-time information to their advantage?
- Infrastructure Deployment: As FIs address long-delayed infrastructure refreshes what new technologies/approaches are they using (including "the cloud")
- Sustainability: How are "Green IT" and other initiatives improving service and the bottom line in addition to helping the environment?
- Social Media: Where are the social media success stories in FIs?
In addition to the trends above I want to continue to discuss IT governance-related topics--there's still a lot of bad process around prioritization and justification of initiatives. Yes, I'll "talking my book" as my employer provides services in all of these areas. That said, if I didn't have a passion for what's happening in the industry I wouldn't be in it in the first place. I see this blog as a way for me to share my perspective on these topics and learn from the community of readers. I look forward to your feedback.