Title: Social Banking – Are We There Yet?
1Social Banking Are We There Yet?
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3Changes in Baking
- India has been a land of change over the last
decade. Everything about our lives has gone
through a fundamental transformation. While
people hail this as a telecom, transportation, IT
revolution, in our view one sector that has been
at the forefront of all this is the banking /
finance sector. Well, YES, this transformation
itself has been enabled by telecom and IT, but it
has also been significantly enhanced by a social,
cultural and service change. - Gone are the days when it took days to open an
account, charges for every time you touched
anything around the bank, hostile (not just
unresponsive) staff wanting to do nothing. And
the paradigm itself has changed. Banking is now
no longer about service you get inside the bank.
4Social media has opened numerous opportunities
for the banking segment. There has been a sea
shift in the overall consumer responsiveness
driven by some of the following factors
- More easily accessible services due to IT and
mobile integration - Free-flow competition from banks, digital wallets
etc - Digital wallet and easing government policies and
regulation - Proliferation of customers and the reduction of
black money in the system
5Banks have realized this and have been focused on
large transformational campaigns around marketing
themselves and standing out. The calls have been
both efficiency based (functional) as well as
relationship based (emotional). They have been
interlinked with new capabilities and products
that the bank offers. While all this is true,
we think the true social enablement of a bank
hasnt yet happened. While there have been some
interesting campaigns and large scale ORM
enablement by Axis, HDFC, ICICI, Yes Bank and
others, there is huge scope in integrating
online-offline in this sector. The actual
transactions, the marketing campaigns, the ease
of availing service, the in-bank experience and
the mobile experience it all need to come
together as one cohesive story. Digital first is
the need of the hour for the banking segment and
offline to follow and represent the same story.
The offline staff need to be empowered to become
the champions of the brand (online, offline and
in their customer experiences). At OMLogic, we
are ready for this change and would love to
partner with a like-minded bank that wants to go
the whole hog. Write to us at info_at_omlogic.com
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