by dgw_HDSadmin | Apr 1, 2022 | Techniques
This week, Dave was invited to host a strategy session to the Board of a Payments company in London. The team looked at the Blockchain starting with the basics and looking at potential future scenarios. Dave gave a short, interactive presentation, left them with...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Jul 1, 2021 | Techniques
When I’m working on strategy with financial organisations, I often find the Bodie and Crane classification (Harvard Business Review, 1996) a useful basis. This gives me a model that sees banks as a bundle of six basic functions: three core transfer functions...
by dgw_HDSadmin | May 2, 2021 | Techniques
Much of the advisory work that we do results in, inevitably, an executive report. Sketching out the high-level contents of these reports turns out to be one of the most important contributions that we can make to the process, because the outline becomes scaffolding to...