Financial Services Industry Slow to Adopt Company-wide Digital Strategy
DUBLIN, LONDON and NEW YORK, June 21, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --
In Terms of Ownership of Digital Strategy, Senior Management are Stepping up to the Plate but a Case-by-case Approach is Still Favoured Over a Structured Over-arching Strategy
Arekibo, Ireland's largest independent digital consultancy, has released the first of its new Market Sentiment Series: Digital Strategy trends in Financial Services.
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In late April/early May, Arekibo sampled 100 of Ireland's top executives involved in technology and asked them some tough questions about how they perceive themselves and their approach to digital strategy development.
Only 22% have a company-wide digital strategy and almost half (48%) still treat digital in a piece-meal manner. In terms of digital ownership, there has been a shift away from Marketing (29%) owning the strategy, with Senior Management increasingly leading the way at 58%.
Irish Financial firms are becoming more digitally savvy with almost two thirds have some in-house digital capability but still believes that there's room to improve.
Some of the barriers to devising a digital strategy range from creating a coherent business case to stakeholder management and internal skills gaps.
The survey also found that product exploration and experimentation remains relatively low and project-dependent but the industry have aspirations to change this.
Looking to the future of digital in Financial Services, 57% of those surveyed believe that data and its analysis will be the driving force behind their strategic decisions.
About Arekibo
Arekibo is Ireland's largest home-grown digital strategy agency. Since our inception in 2002, our market differentiator has been our focus on clients' business drivers, the application of relevant digital enablers and how success is measured. Our aim is to collaboratively support the real business issues faced by our clients.
We provide our clients with a comprehensive suite of digital capabilities. From defining and building digital strategies, to rolling out digital business and communication activities, we create a platform from which they can achieve their strategic goals.
For further information, or to request an interview with Martin Casey, please contact:
Helen Nix, Arekibo
Tel: 01 905 2030
Email: [email protected]
SOURCE Arekibo
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