Archive for Innovation

NACUSO 2010

The NACUSO 2010 Annual Conference is nearing its end already. As is frequently the case with solid credit union conferences, we’ve been going non-stop since our arrival on Sunday.  We’ve had Gary Mangiofico from Pepperdine, John Fish from AstraZenca and Michael Taylor from Schelling Point, with more to come tomorrow. Rather than even try to [...]

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A piece of cake or the whole cake?

Pricing a product always seems to be problematic.  You can’t always price it on the high end and expect to be the luxury good and you can’t always be the “value leader” with the lowest price and expect people to come flocking to you.  Early technologies tend to price themselves at the per unit cost. [...]

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Face wipes

So maybe I use my wife’s make-up removing face wipes every night.  It is much more convenient than having to wash my face and they work better anyways.  So aside from the fact that I use a feminine product to clean my face, there is an important lesson to be learned here: ethnographic research. What [...]

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Lemmings

Credit unions are lemmings.  Nobody ever wants to be the first one to do something.  Then, slowly, as some credit unions adopt the new technology/process/whatever more CU’s start to follow.  Pretty soon it is a mad rush because nobody wants to be the last. From Wikipedia: …groups will reach a cliff overlooking the ocean. They [...]

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NACUSO and Finovate

Hindsight being 20-20, I wish I could have been in two places at once.  We had a MaPS entourage at NACUSO (4 employees and a board member) and we had a great time.  The conference was in the Wynn and very well put together.  Personally, I get more out of the networking opportunities during the [...]

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Visual and Creative Thinking

I’m build a presentation for an upcoming event and was cruising around slideshare.net for some inspiration.  I stumbled onto Visual and Creative Thinking and not only was the design great, but the content is stellar.  It is a must read for CU execs! | View | Upload your own

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BarCampBankSeattle Rocks!

Today was the first long day at BarCampBankSeattle and it was pretty amazing.  We’ve got people from all over the blogosphere here sharing and learning.  Jesse Robbins, all the Trabian guys, Brad and Mark from the Garland Group, Tim from Currency Marketing, and Jason from Wesabe just to name a few.  We’ve kicked around an [...]

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IdeaStorm

Dell has started making some good progress towards turning the company around and their new IdeaStorm site is awesome. It just launched on Friday, February 16th, but the content of the site is already taking off. The basic idea behind the site is for current, or potential, Dell customers to submit their ideas on what [...]

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