
External Resources
Here is a partial (and ever-changing) list of books, blogs, podcasts, other external resources we like. Your mileage may vary.
Podcasts
We're a little biased, since Jason Henrichs and JP Nicols are cohosts along with show creator Brett King of Breaking Banks, the #1 global fintech podcast. The show is produced by Provoke.fm, which features several other interesting podcasts on technology and financial services, including The Futurists, The Finovate Podcast, Tech on Reg, NextGen Banker, Emerge Everywhere, Breaking Chains, Breaking Banks Asia Pacific, and Breaking Banks Europe.
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Beyond that, these are some of the (unaffiliated) business podcasts that we listen to regularly:
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Blogs
Here's who we're reading regularly:
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Banker to Banker Blog - Chris Nichols, Southstate Bank
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Finovate Blog - Finovate
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Fintech Brain Food - Simon Taylor
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Fintech Business Weekly - Jason Mikula
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Fintech Futures - Leda Glyptis
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Fintech Takes - Alex Johnson
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Observations from the Snark Tank - Ron Shevlin
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Roger Martin on Medium - Roger Martin
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The Financial Brand - Jim Marous
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The Finanser - Chris Skinner
Articles and Videos
Here are some of the videos and other materials that we use in the classroom and the boardroom to help explain and illustrate certain topics:
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API Explainer (3:16)
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Blockchain Demystified (10:27)
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Blue Ocean Strategy (2:25)
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Business Model Canvas explainer video (3:32)
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Design Thinking: What is Design Thinking? (1:50)
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Elements of Value HBR Article
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Gang of Four: Apple / Amazon / Facebook / Google (Scott Galloway/NYU) (16:18)
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Jeff Bezos & Amazon – An Inside Look (1999) (13:12, especially 10:42-11:37)
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Jobs to Be Done (4:47)
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Lean Startup Lesson (3:49)
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Lean Startup HBR Article: How the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything
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RBS Open Banking (29:19, especially 6:55-8:35)
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TED – Chris Urmson: How a driverless car sees the road (15:29)
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Uber: The Beginning of Uber (original pitch deck)


On Our Bookshelf
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Augmented: Life in the Smart Lane – Brett King
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Bankruption: How Community Banking Can Survive Fintech – John Waupsh (w/ JP Nicols)
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Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin: From Money that we Understand to Money that Understands Us – Dave Birch
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Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant – Kim and Mauborgne
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Blue Ocean Shift: Beyond Competing – Proven Steps to Inspire Confidence and Seize New Growth – Kim and Mauborgne
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Bank 2.0: How Customer Behavior and Technology Change the Future of Financial Services – Brett King
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Bank 3.0: Why Banking is No Longer Somewhere You Go, But Something You Do – Brett King
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Bank 4.0: Embedded, Ubiquitous, Extinct – Brett King
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Breaking Banks: The Innovators, Rogues, and Strategists Rebooting Banking – Brett King
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Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers – Osterwalder and Pigneur
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Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice – Clayton Christensen
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Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers – Geoffrey Moore
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Dealing with Darwin: How Great Companies Innovate at Every Phase of their Evolution – Geoffrey Moore
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Digital Bank: Strategies to Launch or Become a Digital Bank – Chris Skinner
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Digital Human: The Fourth Revolution of Humanity Includes Everyone – Chris Skinner
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The Discipline of Market Leaders – Treacy and Wiersma
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Emotional Banking: Fixing Culture, Leveraging FinTech, and Transforming Retail Banks into Brands – Duena Blomstrom (w/ JP Nicols)
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Escape Velocity: Free You Company’s Future from the Pull of the Past – Geoffrey Moore
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The Four Steps to the Epiphany – Steve Blank
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The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail – Clayton Christensen
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The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators – Clayton Christensen
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Jumping the S Curve: How to Beat the Growth Cycle, Get on Top, and Stay There - Nunes and Breene
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Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works - Roger Martin and A.G. Lafley
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Smarter Bank: Why Money Management is More Important than Money Movement to Banks and Credit Unions – Ron Shevlin
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Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days – Knapp and Zeratsky
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Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want – Osterwalder and Pigneur
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Value Web: How Fintech Firms are Using Bitcoin, Blockchain and Mobile Technologies to Create the Internet of Value – Chris Skinner
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Virtual Banking: A Guide to Innovation and Partnering – Dan Schatt (w/ JP Nicols)
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The Wide Lens: What Successful Innovators See that Others Miss – Ron Adner
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Zone to Win: Organizing to Compete in an Age of Disruption – Geoffrey Moore
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