Your right brain is an amazing factory of creativity and insight. All it needs is a chance and it can produce truly breakthrough innovation seeds. However, the left brain is a bully, full of facts and logic, which hardly lets the right brain in on the game. That’s why you frequently get great ideas when […]
Author Archives: David Peterson
Making Innovation a Priority
Last month, I did a presentation at Linn Area Credit Union in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on innovation. The CEO, Jenny Lorenz, had heard me deliver this talk at the Symitar Annual Conference and arranged for me to come and also deliver it to her entire team. It’s one thing to talk a good game related […]
The Symbiosis Between Physical and Virtual Stores
I am just a sucker for a good marketing program. Recently, I have evaluated several products based on their extensive marketing and the claims they made within—to my great disappointment (Tommy John and MyPillow, just to name two). As someone who is “fashion challenged,” I am constantly trying to find clothes that at once make […]
Are Terms of Service a Mandate or Guideline?
On October 13th, there was an organized effort to boycott Twitter. I have previously written a blog post “Are You Prepared for a Boycott?” but I wanted to further explore the incident. The galvanizing issue was Twitter’s suspension of Rose McGowan’s account over “violations of policy” stemming from a phone number Ms. McGowan had tweeted. […]
Can you overcome the Einstellung Effect?
Can your brain come up with truly creative ideas that overpower your built-in confirmation bias? Or does your experience with “good” solutions in the past negate your ability to come up with “great” ideas? Scientific American released a special edition magazine this year focused on “Mysteries of the Mind.” Beginning on page 29, there was […]
My Interview with Ray Davis
As emcee of the Community Bankers Association of Georgia annual conference, I interviewed Ray Davis, former CEO of Umpqua Bank. Ray is iconic for taking Umpqua, a small $140 million institution located in rural Oregon, and transforming it into a $20 billion juggernaut. As I frequently talk about the success of Umpqua when I speak […]
VR at DBSI Booth at Symitar Conference
I was in San Diego, one the most beautiful cities to visit in the U.S. with incredible weather, and because I was the closing keynote speaker at the annual Symitar Educational Conference and TechConnect, I had most of the day free. This gave me an opportunity to cruise the exhibit area where dozens of vendors […]
Paying for Parking on The Way Out of Ark Encounter
My brother Larry and sister Linda and I took our elderly parents on a bucket-list road trip to Kentucky to visit the Ark Encounter. As we entered the main parking lot, I immediately noticed something radically different from every other park or attraction I had ever visited: there was no booth to collect parking fees. […]
Branch of the Future? I Hope Not!
I was in Atlanta, Georgia, for a series of business meetings, and happened to be at a trendy restaurant near the Federal Reserve Bank in Midtown. My breakfast meeting was ending, and as we were discussing the state of branch transformation in financial institutions, my guest suggested I check out the new Bank of America […]
If a Picture is Worth a 1,000 Words – How Many Pictures are in a Video??
Over the years, I have created videos to help me explain certain concepts I am trying to teach. This achieves two goals: the videos can be consumed on demand, and they allow me to provide a visual of what I am describing instead of having to rely on each person’s imagination. Due to the complexity […]