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Vivianne and Elizabeth discuss our digital innovation program – FutureSchool
Bangkok FP team dinner
The Path to Chief Innovation Officer
Over the last couple months I’ve been having great discussions with senior digital innovation talent in Australian banks and major financial services companies. Digital disruption has well and truly arrived in the financial sector. This has been a fun development for me as a headhunter and consultant in this space. Here are my thoughts on innovation talent in Australia right now.
A classic Fintech startup has three core founders – a geek, a visionary and a hustler. Big finance innovation talent reflects a similar mix of skills – IT, big picture finance strategy, and a laser focus on what the customer wants. The best innovation talent I have met have a mix of these skills but they are department and sector agnostic. They have demonstrated the ability to jump into a new, relative unknown environment and quickly deploy lessons learnt, process improvements and new thinking. Agility is more valuable than specialisation in innovation searches.
The path to Chief Innovation Officer is not a climb up an existing “Innovation” hierarchy, and I hope it never will be. The diverse talent in this space makes my work stimulating and fast paced.
Cheers, Vivianne
This content was originally posted on LinkedIn
Vivianne Arnold discusses services trade with the Federation of Thai Industries
Our CEO Vivianne Arnold, in her role as President of the Australian Services Roundtable, met with representatives of the Federation of Thai Industries, including Somyod Tangmeelarp, Vice Chairman; Jumrud Sawangsamud, Director-General; and Chaovalit Leelasiwaporn, Director, Trade & Investment Promotion Department, to discuss international professional services trade. The discussion included issues facing the services sectors such as cross border data flows, the recent Free Trade Agreements, and the up and coming meeting in Cebu of the APEC Regional Conference of Services Coalitions.
Our CEO Vivianne presents at the 2015 Regional Economic Integration for Services Industries in the Asia Pacific Forum
In her role as President of the Australian Services Roundtable, our CEO Vivianne Arnold presented at the 2015 Regional Economic Integration for Services Industries in the Asia Pacific Forum in Taipei. Vivianne spoke about how Franklin Phillips, as a member of the Australian Services Roundtable, addresses regulatory change to enable our Asia Pacific micromultinational to thrive in the region. We specialise in executive search for executives who have experience in multiple Asia Pacific economies and Asia Pacific regional hubs for multinationals.
Franklin Phillips Cited in Central News Agency (Taiwan) Article
CEO Vivianne Arnold presented at the Asia Pacific Regional Economic Services Forum this week and her comments were cited in this article in CNA (Taiwan) News. http://www.cna.com.tw/postwrite/Detail/174618.aspx#.VacZthOqqkp She spoke about headhunting C-level executives with experience in multiple Asia Pacific economies.
Vivianne Arnold at the Australian Arab Business Forum
Our CEO Vivianne Arnold recently moderated a panel discussion at the Australian Arab Business Forum. The discussion focussed on opportunities for Australian professional services firms in the Middle East and beyond.
Singapore’s The Business Times publishes Vivianne Arnold’s Opinion – Time for Digital Financial Innovation
Full text of the piece set out below
6 March 2015 Link to online version
Vivianne Arnold
THE advent of the Internet has often been compared to invention of the printing press in the late 15th century. Like the Internet, the printing of books made information ubiquitous and readily accessible, empowering people with knowledge they used to change and expand their world.
What is often forgotten in this analogy is that the revolution triggered by the printing press was ongoing; it wasn’t over and done with inside a few years or even decades. It had a transformational impact on human history which lasted centuries.
So it is with the Internet. The message is that the revolution is not over yet. Many industries are still dealing with its far-reaching implications and will never be the same again.
Much has been written about the supposed demise of the print media, and how that has changed journalism. Convergence in media has destroyed the barrier between print and electronic media, and pitted old style newspaper publishers against public broadcasters and new arrivals like Huffington, personal blogs and even Facebook.
The financial industry may have taken longer to feel the impact of the online revolution, but that doesn’t mean it is going to escape. In fact, right now it is the turn of the established financial industry to really feel the blowtorch of change.
CEO Vivianne Arnold presents at the APEC 2015 Public Private Dialogue on Services
The fintech revolution is going to change international trade as much as the digital revolution changed the media business and it is beginning now. Mobile phone money like M-pesa and microfinance lenders are bringing trade to the unbanked. Peer to peer lenders are disintermediating the big banks. Protocols based on blockchain technology will make the transfer of funds across borders instantaneous & cheap.
– Vivianne Arnold at the APEC Public Private Dialogue, SOM1, Philippines
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