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Metre22 Case Study
How a consumer finance company designed a technology platform to boost its rocket growth (and strengthen customer experience). A new consumer finance company was doing a lot of things well. It was doubling originations year-over-year and adding merchant partners at a rapid pace. It was using first-rate underwriting analytics and offering excellent customer service.…
Read MoreOn the Pitch Fall 2019
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD YOUR COPY OF ON THE PITCH LETTER FROM THE EDITOR _____________ Welcome to On the Pitch, a regular publication of our consulting firm, Metre22, containing insights, points of view and thought provoking perspectives on all things strategy, technology and leadership. At Metre22, our folks love business and business success. It…
Read MoreDon’t Let A Technology ‘Bake Off’ Slow Your M&A Integration
“Eeny, meeny, miny, moe, Catch a tiger by the toe. If he hollers, let him go, Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. My mother says to pick the very best one and you are not it” – Classic Children’s Counting Rhyme In my early elementary school days, we often used this classic children’s rhyme to make decisions.…
Read MoreBaseball & Boardrooms: What The St. Louis Cardinals Can Teach Us About Business Strategy
Spring is in the air and the 2019 MLB season is well underway. As a native St. Louisan, I am a Cardinals fanatic. Some of my most memorable springs were spent in “Busch Stadium II” and “Busch Stadium III” where I even worked one season. Spring brings back fond memories of new beginnings and possibilities…
Read MoreThe Two-Step in Customer Service Mergers
In Texas, everyone must go through the rite of passage of learning the Texas Two-Step. And if you are like me, born and raised in the Lone Star State, you learn quickly that a basic guide to mastering the dance is to move in a “quick-quick-slow-slow” rhythm. This approach of “quick then slow” turns out…
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