6 min read · April 27, 2026

Why Investment Planning Without Benefits Tracking Is Just Budgeting

The missing accountability layer that separates capital allocation from capital performance Most investment planning processes are remarkably effective at allocating capital and remarkably poor at... Read more

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Bastin Gerald
April 27, 2026  ·  6 min read
Improving Transaction Processing & Support
Banking
4 min read · January 15, 2020

Improving Transaction Processing & Support

In order for banks and financial institutions to improve their organizations as a whole, they need to focus on improving…

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Growing Consumer Lending
Banking
4 min read · August 31, 2020

Growing Consumer Lending

According to Pablo Sanchez, the regional head of retail banking and wealth management at HSBC, the unsecured personal loan market…

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Improving Teller Operations
Banking
5 min read · August 31, 2020

Improving Teller Operations

Frontline banking employees like tellers are large determinants of customer loyalty, customer retention, and the organization’s corporate image. Not only…

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Growing Credit Cards
Banking
3 min read · August 31, 2020

Growing Credit Cards

According to a Federal Reserve report from 2018, the top ten card issuers held over 85% of outstanding credit card…

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Top 4 ways OKRs can be used by HR Department
OKR Management
16 min read · August 31, 2020

What are the approaches to choosing your OKR levels?

TL;DR OKRs can be set at four levels: Corporate, Department, Team, and Individual. Most organizations start simple with 2 levels…

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Improving Branch Performance
Banking
5 min read · August 30, 2020

Improving Branch Performance

With the advancement of digital technology and the increasing number of channel options, traditional branch locations are struggling. However, brick…

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Growing Financial Advisory
Banking
10 min read · August 30, 2020

Growing Financial Advisory & Investments Service

Wealth management is facing significant disruption on two fronts – digital transformation and customer experience. To effectively succeed in this…

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Top 4 ways OKRs can be used by HR Department
OKR Management
6 min read · August 29, 2020

When and how do you automate check ins?

Check-ins are an integral part of the OKR process. Profit.co has distinctly designed the OKR software with an automated check-ins…

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top-down
OKR Management
4 min read · August 29, 2020

How do you straddle between top-down and bottom-up alignments?

Alignment is one of the key pillars of the OKR philosophy. Organizations achieve alignment both using a top-down approach and…

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