Top Issues : Q2 2008

1. Bank regulation : On the path for Basel III
2. Market risk : Not mistaking volatility with medium term trends
3. Commodities : Assessing the impact on other sectors
4. European markets : Taking advantage from a strong currency
5. Finance professionals : No real bargain power. Taking advantage of the downturn for advancing on core competencies
6. Currencies : Will revenge from emerging currencies last ?
7. Consumer confidence : Inflation & real estate drop will ultimately benefit the poorest (no car, no house: nothing to loose)
8. Knowledge management : Knowledge is nothing without access to up to date data
9. Economic trends : New sectors in sight with sustainable development
10. Retail banking : Internet banking for the masses

Most thriving companies have been consistently on top of their knowledge management processes. Knowledge management is indeed one of the ingredients of industrial success : retaining and sharing relevant knowledge between people within any given growing company is absolutely key. And as turnover in staff increases and as products become more and more specialized, knowledge management takes an ever more crucial role in the organization performance.

Today, social networks have taken the internet planet by a storm. We see stellar growth rate for most public back-end platforms such as Facebook. And groups of professional nature are progressively being formed on these platforms

 …So this has given ideas to the corporate world for proprietary social enterprise networks.

Some solution providers seem to have found the martingale for enterprise social platforms, allowing for employees to openly share business issues in a collaborative and flexible environment. This can be the right moment for banks to step in the game.