speedily My conversation with Dimitrios Salampasis, an open innovation researcher (@dsalampasis) What does open innovation mean for the financial industry? For a corporation, adopting open innovation means understanding that there are a lot of ideas in the ways of doing things, processes, technologies that will not necessarily come from the company. For large corporations, and most banks […]
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Moving Forward, Fully Armed
I have been interviewed by IT Vision Moscow in December 2012 — this is the edited translation Sberbank Technology Research Center has been functioning for more than a year. Mircea Mihaescu, Director of the Center, is telling us about the results and plans for future. IТ-Vision : What does Sberbank Technology Research Center do […]
Sberbank — Technology Innovation and Investing in Startups
This is the translation to English of my interview with Igor Kostylev @igorkostylev published at here. Q : How long has the innovation center of Sberbank being working, how many people are there ? A :Today there are15 people in the team, apart from me and my assistant. Most of them were hired as project managers, but in […]
A Short Sibos Interview, Talking About Innotribe Startup Challenge
Mircea Mihaescu, head of innovation at Russia’s Sberbank describes the Innotribe Startup Challenge as providing a “very good snapshot of the state of financial innovation at an early stage”. “There is a clear alignment between what Sberbank considers the best way to discover and apply innovation to the financial industry and how Innotribe sees it,” […]
Technology Innovation in Russian Banking
My interview with HBR Russia has just been published. Here is the English translation (the interview was conducted in English, translated to Russian and back to English, hence some awkward phrases…) What features of the Russian market do you see as important from the standpoint of innovation development in the banking sector ? First […]
Sberbank 2.0
I have been interviewed recently by Tatiana Naumova for a Russian investment magazine. Since the interview will be published in Russian translation, I am including here the (slightly edited) English transcript. 4 main directions for innovation in Sberbank this year – in our interview with the Director of Technology Research Center Dr. Mircea Mihaescu. Author […]