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Brand Strategy & Digital Banking with Product Innovation Masterclass

Brand strategy, digital banking and product innovation in one build — behavioural insight to business growth for banks facing disruptors on every side.

Format

Classroom · Live Virtual

The programme

Banks bracing for the next wave of digital disruption tend to fix technology first and brand last — then wonder why customers cannot tell them apart from the challenger down the street. This masterclass connects the two: strategic branding built on behavioural insight, the shift from branch and phone banking to digital, and a disciplined process for new product development with the customer at its centre. Participants hear directly from industry practice on using new technologies to optimise performance, marketing a genuine USP and driving new leads year on year. The cohort works through brand, digital and product-innovation strategy as one connected build.

What you will do

Build a brand strategy from behavioural insights, and connect it directly to business growth.
Create impactful content and stories across digital channels, backed by a working digital marketing and branding strategy.
Manage the shift from branch and phone banking to digital, with tools and techniques your organisation can adopt.
Put digital, social media and web analytics to work on branding and promotion decisions.
Run a new product development process that keeps the customer at the heart of product management.
Assess the market and competition and choose between product innovation and marketing strategy with evidence.
Secure multi-departmental commitment to the customer experience strategy.

Who attends

  • Heads of strategy and marketing
  • Product sales and business development managers
  • Payment gateway heads and managers
  • Research analysts and managers
  • Bancassurance and distribution management

Cohorts bring together board members, executives and the rising leaders behind them — kept deliberately small, so every seat is a peer’s.

Programme agenda

Built for the decisions no textbook prepares you for

I.Brand as strategy
  • Strategic branding: from behavioural insights to business growth
  • The key role of brand and strategy for your organisation
  • Content and storytelling across digital channels
II.The digital banking shift
  • From branch and phone banking to digital banking
  • Tools and techniques for embracing digital channels
  • Digital, social media and web analytics in branding and promotion
III.Product innovation
  • A process for new product development
  • Making the customer the heart of product development and management
  • Assessing the market and competition
  • Innovative trends in retail banking
IV.Relationships and commitment
  • Building customer relationships on- and offline
  • Multi-departmental commitment to the customer experience strategy
  • Product innovation versus marketing strategy: choosing the play

Frequently asked

Do I need a technical background to attend a technology or AI programme?

No. These programmes are built for the executives who decide, not the engineers who build — no code, no demo-as-strategy. Participants leave able to rank AI use-cases by economics, put governance around model risk, and interrogate a technology proposal in one meeting.

How do the programmes treat AI governance and model risk?

As a named person’s job. The curriculum covers model inventories, validation, human override and the ownership a supervisor would recognise — AI placed where it survives an audit, inside real workflows. Participants draft the governance standard their institution lacks and defend it in a capstone review.

What do the technology programmes cost?

Fees are confirmed in the proposal conversation, because delivery format, location and tailoring change the number. Apply for a seat or request the brochure; the reply — from a senior practitioner within one business day — includes dates, formats and the fee for your case.

Are the programmes available online as well as in the classroom?

Yes. Programmes run in the classroom, as live virtual cohorts, or in hybrid format, in English and French. BIZENIUS delivers from its Dubai and Bangalore offices and on client sites across 45+ countries.

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