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Technology is nothing without change management. This is a theme one can pick up from any article aimed at the information technology space. How does it apply to Microfinance?
The basic argument to be made is that MFIs lack flexibility in terms o...
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Its useful to think of the challenges facing the MFIs as different from those facing software vendors trying to serve this market. This was the key insight that led many in the industry to push for a market place of solutions. The result was the CGAP rating system and third party evaluations. This was to be applied to only those systems that were commercially available, and implemented in more than one country.
This is a good threshold, as many saw that over and over, MFIs were investing in inhouse solutions that had to be abandoned after a few years. Or, that when one tried to apply successful inhouse development efforts to a different MFI, that the challenge of serving new requirements made it too challenging.
This is a good threshold, as many saw that over and over, MFIs were investing in inhouse solutions that had to be abandoned after a few years. Or, that when one tried to apply successful inhouse development efforts to a different MFI, that the challenge of serving new requirements made it too challenging.
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Technology is nothing without change management. This is a theme one can pick up from any article aimed at the information technology space. How does it apply to Microfinance?
The basic argument to be made is that MFIs lack flexibility in terms of the processes that they have identified after many years of working with clients. This however, can overlook the fact that MFIs are ultimately very flexible, if the person working on the implementation can find a way to work within the Customer Method… Continue
The basic argument to be made is that MFIs lack flexibility in terms of the processes that they have identified after many years of working with clients. This however, can overlook the fact that MFIs are ultimately very flexible, if the person working on the implementation can find a way to work within the Customer Method… Continue
Posted on May 12, 2009 at 5:47am —
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