Before moving further, let’s first understand some of the terms which will be used throughout the essay.

Discuss About The Consumer Preference Online Banking Service?

Business model innovation , a term which is in vogue from quite some time across the globe and industries. Making a business model which can withstand any uncertainty of time, and is flexible  too is the need of the hour, hence a lot of startups these days are coming up with radical business model/solutions, which challenges the way businesses are functioning and at the same time provide a way for flexibility in the ecosystem(Massa & Tucci, 2013). Disruption,is one of the most talked about word from the last couple of years, but only in the startup ecosystem.

It has been observed that big established players do not go for disruption or don’t try and make changes in the ecosystem, it’s the startups that are driving the change in the industry and being the front runners of the disruption game. In the further section will discuss this in depth and also see why big established players are wary about radical business models and disruption in their industries(Jenkins & Fife, 2016).

Business models:  It’s  a company’s plan of how it will generate revenue, and make profits. It explains what products/services business wants to sell  and market, also explains how it plans to do so  with all the relevant details like expenses, employee strength , business verticals, etc. Hence, it is a simple step by step plan of action of conducting the business with profitability(Boons & Ludeke-Freund, 2013). An essential feature of a great business model is developing a value proposition, which is essentially what value in terms of a product/service the business is wanting to offer to the potential customer, that essentially different from its competitors. Some examples of business models are click model , brick & mortar, click & mortar,direct sales, franchising, out of which, in the present scenario click model is the most popular one( Gobble, 2014).

Disruption/Disruptive innovation : It can be understood as a process ,where a small company with fewer resources successfully challenges the established business. Big businesses try and focus on the segment which is most demanding and hence misses out on the other segments, disruption caters to that segment (Christensen, Raynor & McDonald, 2015). Disrupters thus targets those overlooked segments at a relatively low price and delivering value to the segment. This type of innovation happens in low-end or new-market foothold.This kind of innovation is touted to not reach the mainstream customers until the customer sees a value in associating with them and better quality in services (King & Baatartogtokh, 2015).

• It is a process
• Disrupters often build business models that are very different from the incumbents.
• Not all of the disruptive innovation succeed.

The reasons why established players are shying from Disruptive innovation:

Comfortable serving the high end customers- As spoken earlier, established players are the ones who are targeting a specific segment and are really happy catering to them. The segment they target gives them the maximum revenue, also one of the reasons why they overlook other segments. This leaves a lacuna between incumbent and their offerings, disrupters with their small size and limited resource bridge that gap.

Old school thinking/Risk appetite: Established firms have a very trivial way of solving a problem, they look for rationality, calculate risk involved, take a lot of time in deciding things, everything has to be in a set order , the risk taking capacity is low, etc ,some of these reasons hold them back when it comes to taking a big leap forward with revolutionizing the industry. They fear technology, as the major challenge and hence fails to embrace it. On the hand startups have a very radical thinking , they are young like minded individual, higher risk appetite, wanting to challenge the existing norms & system , not scared of failure, wanting to do big in their life and contribute to the society, some of these factors make them the disrupters in comparison to established firms ( Morris, 2013).

Follow 80/20 rule: In sales, there is a rule, saying , 80 % of the company’s sales comes from 20% of its Most of the big businesses work on this theory, overlooking the rest 80% of the customers, because they are not contributing much to their revenues, and in order to target the remaining 80% they would have to put in extra hours, which they kind of see as unnecessary (Kane, 2014), hence shying away from radical business innovation.

Out-Of-Box thinking- In big businesses, the management is very stern, they strictly follow top-down approach , the communication flow is not that open , its smooth , but not open. Out of the box thinking is not so appreciated in big firms , they believe in their own traditional ways to solve a problem, ideas are not appreciated and given attention too, infact, there is not a culture where in ideas can be brought forward to the management, the ideas keep dying every day at big firms. Hence, no space for out-of –the box thinking makes them completely unaware of the benefits of disruption making  them apprehensive about it. Also a flat hierarchy in the startups becomes a breeding ground for more and more ideas,  unlike the big firms (Schwitzgebel, 2013).

Conclusion

Conceptual belief in the sustainability model rather than disruption: The management of big firms don’t have a faith in disruption , they think of it as a wave, a fad, something which everyone is doing, they don’t believe that these business models can sustain themselves for long, and it’s just a matter of time that it will fade away. This dogmatic approach towards the change happening holds them back in making a dent in the established virtues of businesses.

Conclusion : In all fairness, disruption is good for the industry, the process may need a bit of modification, in terms of mentoring of startups, and some experts looking over the way processes are taking shape, but as long as the society is getting benefitted , it’s a win-win for all. Uber, amazon, Netflix, Airbnb are some of the fantastic examples of disruption models which have changed the way these industries were working before. It is the  responsibility of the big firms to come forward and embrace and be a part of the change, rather than just be an audience( Carayannopoulos, 2017).

Online banking initially gained popularity in the late 1980’s or the early 90’s, since then, online banking is on a fast paced growth with tons of added product and ease of the banking functionality. It started out as using a keyboard and landline to access one’s bank account , which has gradually shifted to internet banking , which is banking transaction via internet, peer to peer transfer, smartphone banking/mobile banking (Laudon & Traver,2013). All this has simplified the life of the user , the bad days of standing in the queue to deposit money, getting monthly statements, etc have gone past. It is the new age banking which everyone seems to appreciate. October 94 , Stanford credit central bank became the first one to offer internet services to its customers. The convenience and perks of online banking are higher in comparison to traditional banking, still a good amount of the population is wary of internet banking because of the fear of being duped by online hackers(Dauda & Lee, 2015). In the case it is said that some banks adopted internet banking as a separate unit and some inculcated online banking in its existing model of business, in the further section we will see, the reason for different business behaviors in the same industry.

 The early years: The early version started in 1981, NYC was the first one to offer home banking services to its customers, throughout the history, it was the most difficult one to adopt in the history of online banking, hence it did not pick up, until the next innovation in the early 90’s. In oct 94 Stanford credit national become the first one to offer internet banking to its customers. Following the lead were other banks, who also started extending their online services (Laukkanen, 2016)

Evolution of the banking system:

Online banking- In the 2000’s: With the evolution of online banking , it slowly began to to gain popularity in the e-commerce as well. Seeing some of really big banks getting into online baking , it started gaining popularity among the customers, and suddenly the entire shift happened towards online banking from traditional banking. In 2010, the trend again changed from online banking to internet payments, consumer billings and payment started trending. The increase in mobile penetration , growing digital literacy multiplied the growth in online banking and made it a very common term among consumers (Leamer & Storper, 2014)

Fear of losing out the existing customers: Some banks feared , if they do not create a different unit to cater to the online banking needs, they might lose onto the chunk of traditional bankers, who are wary about the usage of online banking, and hence merging of traditional and online banking would further scare them off, hence the reason for difference in adoption of disruption.

Better management of services: Some banks thought , online banking is here to stay, so why not create a separate unit out of it, and fill it with innovation and new technology. By doing this , it won’t hamper their existing business procedures and they would be in a space of technological innovation as well.

Creating the unit within the self: Most of the banks went with this strategy of adopting online banking in its existing model, this can be attributed to the bandwidth those guys have, the adoption , Accounting of services, keeping a distinction between a traditional and online banker, their capabilities to make customers understand, combat their fears and so on. This leads them to adopt online banking in its existing system.

Future vision: Banks were smart enough to predict future, they knew mobile banking is the future, payments, customer billings etc, is the new wave of change, digital penetration will increase this manifold, hence they thought of focussing their efforts in creating online products and services which will be more useful to the clients rather than thinking about creating a separate unit and a different business model, as any new creation takes time , and if one is sure of its capability in the industry , they better adopt rather than reinventing the wheel ( Sia, Soh & Weill, 2016).

Conclusion:

Rightly said, disruption can hit an industry in different ways , online banking adoption is a clear example of the said theory. Disruption in itself is a new age thinking , it is a thinking of the go –getter, who is looking to challenge the existing norms, who don’t want to be kept shut and take orders. They believe in the creation of a new thing which challenges the structure. Hence different models of disruption are possible, as long as it is disrupting and changing the set patterns, and  same is working in favor of consumers, it’s a wonderful strategy. Banking has evolved over the years,  and now with new age mobile banking, the possibilities are endless, more disruption in the banking industry is surely on the card.

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