Connecting dots …

Ideas

by

pialislam

Change is a constant phenomenon in today’s world. Change is often difficult to manage. However, change also offers unique opportunities for organizations that are open to new ways of harnessing the disruptions and undertake well thought-out transformation initiatives. Transforming an organization requires clearly articulated aspirations as well as the ability to generate energy and new ideas.

STRATEGY (read all) 

  • Digital Banking

    The digital banking space has captured many imaginations. How might things evolve in this space?

  • Strategic Intuition

    When a strategy succeeds, it seems a little like magic, characterized by unknown unknowns in advance but obvious in retrospect.

  • Disrupting Strategy Itself

    Shifts happen. The study or practice of strategy design is no different.

INNOVATION (read all)

DIGITAL FINANCE (read all)

  • Digital Banking

    The digital banking space has captured many imaginations. How might things evolve in this space?

  • dfs in the time of covid-19

    pi STRATEGY research finds that 77% of the population experienced a reduction in household income during Covid-19. Many had to borrow to put food on the table. However, those with MFS account seemed to have been able to better withstand the shock. The gender gap in financial inclusion decreased to 24% in 2020. And women’s […]

  • Financial Inclusion

    Transforming to a cash-lite society can catalyze greater financial inclusion in Bangladesh.

HEALTHCARE FINANCE (read all)

  • Nakshikantha Model

    A multi-faceted sustainable model for innovative health financing that weaves several distinct facets into a single product offering.

  • Making Health Insurance Healthier

    Health insurance only accounts for 0.2% of total healthcare expenditure.

  • HEALTH INSURANCE MARKET SCAN, COE-UHC, ICDDR,B

    The study Health Insurance Market Scan was the first published study on the status of Health Insurance sector of Bangladesh. The paper was co-authored by Pial Islam, Managing Partner, pi STRATEGY and Timothy G Evans, Senior Director of Health, Nutrition and Population at the World Bank Group and was published in 2015 by Centre of […]

UNDERSERVED SEGMENTS (read all)

  • Digital Banking

    The digital banking space has captured many imaginations. How might things evolve in this space?

  • dfs in the time of covid-19

    pi STRATEGY research finds that 77% of the population experienced a reduction in household income during Covid-19. Many had to borrow to put food on the table. However, those with MFS account seemed to have been able to better withstand the shock. The gender gap in financial inclusion decreased to 24% in 2020. And women’s […]

  • Product Innovation For BOP Segments

    Can the same features of a product/service originally designed for the wealthy consumers, be useful for the people at the base of the pyramid?

MUSINGS (read all)

  • Mystery Of Pi: The Pi STRATEGY Mantra

    The truly divine notions are those that are simple, yet impossible to grasp in their totality.

  • Life of pi

    The world isn’t just the way it is. It is how we understand it and then we bring something to it.

  • Why Pi?

    Perhaps no other mathematical constant has captured the human imagination like Pi (Greek letter “π”).