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Is Self-Service good or bad?

July 18, 2008

Ellen Goodman of the Boston Globe had a column “Self-serve and slave” (that I saw in the San Jose Mercury News as “In a self-serve nation, work gets dumped on us“) in which she rails against self-service and compares it to the outsourcing of work from paid employees to us consumers. As she says:
For every [...]

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The future of consumer banking needs EDM

July 11, 2008

Naumi Haque wrote this nice piece on The future of consumer banking and it struck me how many of the things she suggests, with which I agree, require a broad-based adoption of EDM.
For instance she suggests a single financial cockpit – she calls it a dashboard but she wants to be able to do things [...]

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Don’t be creepy when you personalize

July 3, 2008

The WSJ had a little piece today on personalization – Personalized Emails Are Creepy, Not Effective based on a study done some time ago but still very relevant in today’s market where companies are being told to personalize (including by me). Here are three quotes I think summarize the problem:
[there is a negative] response to [...]

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Live from InterACT – Closing Keynote

April 30, 2008

Ted Iacobuzio of TowerGroup gave the closing keynote, expanding on the survey results Fair Isaac announced today. More than 100 of the InterACT attendees took the survey – clearly this is top of mind. Some highlights:

Lenders appreciate the need for integrated customer information and multi-product decisioning
Lenders are not all at the same speed in implementation
Respondents [...]

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Live from InterACT – Changing the game

April 30, 2008

A collections session next with folks from Adeptra, Fair Isaac and GE Money talking about GE’s vision for virtual collections. The collections environment is extremely bad this year with massive growth in the need for collection agents. Delinquencies are up, problems are up, consumers are stressed. Scores are worsening (credit profiles are worse), payments are [...]

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Live from InterACT – The Mortgage Crisis

April 29, 2008

Interesting session on the Mortgage Crisis next, subtitled “Implications for a Global Economy”. Joe Breeden of Strategic Analytics and Daniel Melo of Fair Isaac. Joe started by saying that this is the 3rd time this has happened in the last 16 years. And, as before, it’s not just about mortgage and it’s not just about [...]

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Here’s how one company is using EDM to improve healthcare

March 4, 2008

Silverlink is an interesting company whose approach is to apply science to drive healthcare behaviors in a scalable manner. They made some announcements today at the Health 2.0 conference. I recently got a chance to speak with the CEO (Stan Nowak) and his team. Silverlink has 50 healthcare clients representing 150 million lives (including 9 [...]

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