Designing Banks

[TECHNOLOGY] Multi-Touch G2 Demo

This is an update to a previous post on multi-touch technology and Microsoft Surface.

Things are now heating up.  It seems Multi-Touch G2 is ready to give Microsoft Surface a little competition.

VIA:   Multi-Touch G2 Demo

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[RETHINK] What's Health Got To Do With It?

LATERAL THINKING

As an architect, I often look at design directions developing in industries, other than the one I am currently focused on.  Many times, I have discovered a number of interesting parallels, which lead to fresh ideas I have not yet explored.

This video, on the future of personal health, has nothing to do with banking.  However, it sheds light on new information technologies which may, some day, apply to banking.

As you watch, think laterally. Try to see the similarities in seemingly unrelated disciplines.  Look for ways you can apply what you see to related areas in your business.

This technique has served me well for many years.

VIA:  YouTube - Office Labs: Future of personal health concept

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[TECHNOLOGY] Diebold - Future Branch

The bank of the future may very well feature biometric "welcome stations" where customers are identified when they walk in the door by a fingerprint or other means of individual identification, and serviced according to their needs and banking profiles.    more . . .

VIA:

• Article: Baseline A Look At The Bank Of The Future 
• Picture: Balance Inc. Diebold - Branch of the Future

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[FUTURE] Center For Future Banking Web Site

From MIT MEDIA LAB CFB:

Rethinking Banking for the Twenty-First Century

Researchers at the Center for Future Banking, in collaboration with Bank of America, will explore how emerging technologies and insights into human behavior can transform the customers' experience and elevate the role of the bank in their financial lives. We seek to invent new ways to anticipate the needs and desires of customers down to the level of the individual, to put every customer in total control of his or her own financial futures, to rethink the experience of customer-bank interaction as virtual and physical reality become increasingly intertwined, and finally to leverage the unique position of a bank to make people's lives simpler and more fulfilling.  [more . . .] 

from MIT MEDIA LAB -- Center For Future Banking

VIA:   MIT MEDIA LAB -- Center For Future Banking

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[FUTURE] Branch of the future

Branch of the Future

I think you will like this.  It is a short video (2:34 minutes) giving us an insightful glimpse of the future of branch banking.  You may not agree with everything depicted, but it will certainly spark your imagination.

Innovation in Banking

This clip, Innovation in Banking (Techweb), explores the current thinking regarding the future of the industry. As you listen, think about today's bank branch--will it live on . . . or die out . . . or will it morph into something entirely new? Secondly, if something changes, and it will, how long will it take to come about?