#Digital Research
We live in a “do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do” immersion chamber. Such seemingly benign hypocrisy is so pervasive that we are blindly oblivious to it. And, though there are many targets at which we could point this critique, let’s take the research and advisory business for capital markets and financial services – since the FSI ecosystem is the purpose of the work we are starting here. Digital everything / digital anything quickly went viral; becoming the bumper sticker for 2015. Those of us in thought-leadership and punditry circles spent the last several months insisting to our clients that they absolutely must leave their analog legacies behind and become more digital immediately – or else all manner of doom and gloom will wash over them. Good news: this mantra is way overdue – and will need to be reiterated with greater specificity and maturity for the foreseeable future. And, though becoming increasingly pervasive in industries like retail and entertainment over the past several years, the concept of digital transformation is quite new to the financial [...]
