IFS.alpha: a new intrapreneurship programme to accelerate the bank’s transformation

• capitalizing as much as possible on the expertise and imagination of its employees, 
  
• embracing the modernity of modes of creation from startups: their services and technological offers,
  
• building on the Group's historical strengths (customer access, distribution strength, partnership expertise, geographic implementation, financial impact).

Meeting society's latest challenges

This new intrapreneurship programme, which complements the existing initiatives within the Group, relies on intrapreneurs from all over the world to develop new financial or extra-financial services, and help customers transition through the company’s changes. 

« Along with the digital transformation of our company there is a tremendous demand for a change in the mindset, in the ways of working and more globally in the way we do our job. People want a greater meaning in their day-to-day work. They want to be actors and not only do what they are told. They want to create, act, initiate. They want to be “intrapreneur”. » 

Jacques d’Estais, Deputy Chief Operating Officer of BNP Paribas & Head of International Financial Services

The IFS.alpha Challenge launched in July 2017 aims to have willing employees from the six business lines at IFS come up with, develop and test new financial and non-financial products and services. In this first round, over 80 groundbreaking project proposals were submitted on subjects ranging from digital technology and artificial intelligence to the sharing economy.

Convert an idea into reality

The employees behind the seven winning projects will get the chance to bring their ideas to fruition with the assistance of multidisciplinary “squads” with whom they will be working for six months on-site at Bivwak! in Paris.

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