BOOK REVIEW
Book Title: Digital Project Practice for Banking and FinTech
Author: Various (edited by Tobias Endress)
Publisher: CRC Press
List Price: $59.95
Format: Soft Cover, 220 pages
Publication Date: March 2024
ISBN: 9781032493657
Reviewer: Ramesh Mohan
Review Date: October 2024
Introduction
The book explores the intersection of developing technologies and digital transformation initiatives that are happening across many organizations throughout the world in the banking and Fintech sectors. The book provides an outline to help project managers understand this evolving landscape, accounting for automation, compliance with regulatory bodies, data collection, storage and integration. It addresses, especially in the first chapter of the book – a project manager’s role in this evolving landscape.
Overview of Book’s Structure
The book is organized into chapters, written by different authors – arranged in a logical order, in order to help provide an introduction to the banking and fintech sectors, recent and ongoing developments as well as project management best practices in this sector.
This structure, I felt was especially effective since it separated the articles into bite size chunks while still maintaining overall cohesion – allowing (especially on a personal level) a more engaging and easy digesting of complex topics like RPA technology.
Highlights
In particular, Chapters 3, 4, and 11 were highlights because they provide valuable insights into how digital technology reshapes project management in banking and FinTech, emphasizing themes of automation, efficiency, and customer behavior. Chapter 4 stood out to me as being the most digestible explanation of RPA (Robotic Process Automation) tech that I have ever received and certainly added to my understanding of the subject.
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How to cite this work: Mohan, R. (2024). Digital Project Practice for Banking and FinTech, book review, PM World Journal. Vol. XIII, Issue XI, December. Available online at https://pmworldlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/pmwj147-Dec2024-Mohan-Digital-Project-Practice-for-Banking-book-review.pdf
About the Reviewer
Ramesh Mohan
Dallas, Texas, USA
Ramesh Mohan is a project management professional with 8 years of experience in large-scale projects in the downstream oil and gas sector. He is currently pursuing an MBA and an MS in Business Analytics from the University of Texas at Dallas. He hopes to leverage his experience and skills to positively impact organizational strategy and value, based on best practices and careful analysis of business data.
Email address: rameshmohan93@gmail.com
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