Challenge
Challenging the strategy alongside those one step ahead.
Payments are one of the fastest-moving markets in financial services. New players, new uses and an evolving regulatory framework mean that yesterday's strategy no longer reads tomorrow's.
The board wanted to look beyond its own market, with three requirements.
- See what others do. Meet innovative players ahead of the curve on payments.
- Engage at the right level. Talk with executives, not with presentation teams.
- Test a regulatory question. Confront a regulatory question with the perspective of another ecosystem.
The need: challenge and adapt the company's strategy, based on what the most advanced players do.
Solution
A three-day immersion, built meeting by meeting.
We designed a tailored learning expedition for a board of directors. Three principles shape it.
- A demanding selection. We choose each player for what it brings to the board's strategic questions.
- Executive-to-executive exchanges. Meetings take place at the highest levels of each company.
- Another ecosystem. A change of ground shifts perspective and tests the regulatory question from another angle.
Set-up
Target, select, immerse, translate.
- Scoping. Definition of the strategic questions and the regulatory topic the board wants to test.
- Player selection. Identification of innovative payments players and outreach at executive level.
- Program. Three dense days of back-to-back meetings in another ecosystem.
- Immersion. Direct exchanges between board members and the executives they meet.
- Strategic translation. The lessons of the expedition feed the adjustment of the strategy.
Results
An adjusted strategy, an aligned board, new partnerships.
In three days, the board of directors confronted its view of payments with that of players one step ahead.
The expedition produced four effects.
- New topics understood. The board grasped dynamics it could not see from within its own market.
- Internal alignment. The governing bodies now share the same reading of the stakes.
- Partnerships created. The meetings led to partnerships with some of the players met.
- An adjusted strategy. The company integrated the lessons of the expedition into its strategy.
Expertises mobilisées
Savoir-faire
- Learning expedition
- Acculturation
- Strategy
- Governance
- Payments
- Regulation
Technologies
Signature
Four mechanisms that make the difference.
- A tailored program. Each meeting answers a question raised by the board.
- Access to executives. Exchanges take place at the highest level, where decisions are made.
- A shift in perspective as a method. Another ecosystem sheds new light on strategic and regulatory questions.
- From inspiration to decision. The expedition carries on in the strategy, not only in memories.
For you
An immersion that moves your strategy forward.
This approach addresses four situations.
- Your board or executive committee wants to challenge its strategy alongside more advanced players.
- Your market moves fast and you want to see what is taking shape elsewhere.
- You need to align your governing bodies on a shared reading of the stakes.
- You are looking for partners able to accelerate your transformation.
We build a tailored program, open the doors to the right people and help you turn what you saw into decisions.
