Well, PYMNTS University class of 2010-2011, we’ve made it the last course in the curriculum. Just three more days, a class quiz, and a final exam are all that stand between you and a diploma from PYMNTS University. With that diploma on the wall in your office, you may tell the world that you understand the two most fundamental tenets of payments innovation: 1) that the basic forces of customer behavior and payments stakeholder dynamics are relatively constant and change slowly over time, and 2) that the forces of competition, evolution, and innovation that seek to capture revenue from that behavior are in constant motion.
In our last class of the year, we will discuss one of the most important ways in which a payments enterprise may invest in making its business highly flexible and adaptive to change. Change is a constant in the payments universe, and networks must be able to change to remain relevant, to grow revenue, and to realize potential. (Read More)
As we come down the home stretch for this semester of PYMNTS University, our focus in our last course is on an approach to growing a payments enterprise that hearkens back to the way payments first began. (Read More)
In a few short paragraphs we’ll be through our entire course of study for the semester. In the span of a few short months we’ve covered everything from consumer demand for debit, the prepaid opportunity, mobile services, and eCom convergence to the distributed and interconnected ecosystems that generate and facilitate commerce. (Read More)
In your opinion, open platform development is most important to a payments manager responsible for innovation in what way? Share your thoughts in this week’s exam. (Read More)