Giles Nelson

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Building Customer Loyalty in a Churning Market

All businesses suffer from churn – the moving of customers from one service provider to another. As new and innovative services become better understood and more widespread, more suppliers enter the market and so the opportunities for customers to change suppliers increases. Churn is expensive....

Responsiveness in Retail Banking
A general theme for this blog is how organisations are having to become more responsive, whether to customers, competition, regulation or to squeeze further operational efficiencies out of processes. I want to talk about some of the likely areas of innovation in retail and wholesale banking...
Sharing some winter sun with Progress' application partners
Earlier this week I participated in the 2011 Progress Global Partner Conference which was held in Florida. This is only the second time the partner conference has been global – previously it was held regionally – and I’m delighted to say that hundreds of representatives from...
Transformational IT change at British Airways

Gordon Penfold, Chief Technology Officer, at British Airways, started off by telling us that not only is the Boeing 747 40 years old this year, but so is the IT that supports the 747. Having been early to the world of real-time processes, the technology is now facing end of life at the end of 2010,...

Stamford Bridge, here we come

Tomorrow sees Progress Software taking over Stamford Bridge, home ground to the world-famous Chelsea Football Club. We’re not just there to check out the players’ dressing rooms – we are being joined by James Caan, of Dragons' Den fame, as well as the great and the good of the UK business...

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