Thursday, 11 April 2013

Working Day at Novia

Working Day at Novia

Our working day at Novia last friday started out rather early with a gathering at Robert’s Coffee where I, Jasmine, Rasmus and Bella from the other Aktia group got together to think about questions to the office manager at Aktia. We came up with a couple of good questions and although we did not necessarily get answers to all of them, we had a good time at Aktia and got an insight in their business activities. Johannes and Max from the other group also joined the visit to Aktia. It was helpful for us to get a “hands-on”-visit to our customer; once you get to know at least a little bit about how the customer practically deals with its clients, it becomes easier for us as a group to understand what the customers strengths and possible weaknesses are and what we could do to help them solve these problems.

Later on I and Jasmine joined the rest of the group at the working day at Novia. Our first task was to write a short story about where we see the banking business will develop until 2025. We got fifteen minutes to write it, and so we rather quickly reached a consensus of what it could be like.
Our vision included an app made for tablets and smartphones in which the customer could log on to the actual bank service directly through his/her tablet and get to talk to an actual person from the bank via the application. The customer could choose between a couple of options regarding the service; gender and language. The long-term customers would obviously get to run errands with the same person every time, and if that wouldn’t be possible, the bank would automatically suggest another person get service from. If no-one at all would be available at the time of the check-in, the customer would get a “call back” from the bank when someone at the bank was available; this would result in less standing in line for the customer. The banks would also get to keep closer and more personal contact with the customers and get to know them and their preferences better.
After we finished our story I was honored to get to present the whole thing to the class and the teachers.      

- Mikael L

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