Steve van Wyk, CIO ING Bank - Building the preferred bank (with technology) !

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Overall conclusions and wrap-up CIO Lecture

First I would like to compliment study association Stress with the excellent organization of the CIO Lecture and the ability to attract a top employer like ING. More important it is really interesting to attend a lecture from someone at the corporate level from ING.

Steve van Wyk provided great insights into the technology challenges at ING. However he also addressed the merger of Postbank and ING from a technical perspective, and explored the experiments for innovation and future scenario’s of competitive advantage with the attendees. It was a great session, especially the last to parts were perfectly suited for people with an entrepreneurial skillset.

Picture used with permission of Stress, study association

I will personally remember Steve van Wyk as the CIO who made a short introduction round through the lecture room, introduced himself personally to a few students (I was lucky to be one of them), and have a short conversation with them. Remarkable was also his statement that by the time you are graduated, about 25% of the learned knowledge is already superseded !

You can furthermore see that human capital is the most highly important at ING, and with people like Steve van Wyk on the corporate level people will be the most important value for ING, despite all technological developments.

About Stress, study association for Business Administration [...]

“Stress is the University of Twente’s (UT) study association for Business Administration (BA), International Business Administration (IBA), Industrial Engineering and Management (IE&M) and Business Information Technology (BIT) and was founded on May 21st, 1974. Currently, Stress has around 2500 members and is the largest UT study association.”