{"id":61306,"date":"2017-07-24T17:19:56","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T08:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elixirr.com\/en-us\/?post_type=case_study&p=61306"},"modified":"2025-11-26T08:04:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T08:04:05","slug":"a-large-african-bank","status":"publish","type":"case_study","link":"https:\/\/www.elixirr.com\/en-us\/case-studies\/a-large-african-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"A large African bank"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Their leadership team wanted to explore the art of the possible, so we took them to Silicon Valley & set up 57 meetings with relevant potential partners over just 8 days…<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\n Overview<\/h3>

The leadership team wanted to find innovative technology and processes that could help secure them a competitive advantage in the market, understand how to best drive culture, measure success, use data and collaborate. So, we took them to Silicon Valley and showed them the art of the possible by setting up 57 meetings with relevant potential partners \u2013 and we squeezed them all into just 8 days. What a week!<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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\n Outcome<\/h3>

Identified 33 potential partners & established 10 proofs of concepts.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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Defined innovation focus areas, scouted for potential solutions & hosted an executive visit in Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

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As part of this bank\u2019s technology transformation journey and their continuous efforts to accelerate the delivery of their change agenda, the CTO, Infrastructure Services and Technology HR teams embarked on an innovation scouting exercise.<\/p>\n

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We have a long-term strategic partnership with this bank. Since 2014, we have been working with senior stakeholders to help drive and embed the technology change agenda. Our intricate knowledge of their journey, combined with our innovation expertise and extensive close network in Silicon Valley made us their first choice of partner for this work.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

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\n The challenge<\/h2>
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The leadership team were looking to find partners who could:<\/p>\n