It won't be built into our DNA for the way we interface with customers, our employees.
I didn't know anything about fabrics or shirts or how to sell a suit, or how to interface with customers, and I've worked my way up since I was transferred to Florida.
The key to sales is the design "interface" with customers.
Those assets won't evaporate overnight, even if a bank loses control over the primary user interface with customers through unbundling.
The first is the customer-facing side, where Caroobi is giving mechanics a more efficient way of interfacing with customers, with accounting and billing software that links up with Caroobi's back-end, and scheduling tools to book in appointments.
The company — which interfaces with customers via the web but also through iPhone and Android apps — says it now has £1.3 billion in deposits, and it has loaned £1.2 billion in the form of mortgages and SMB loans.
While Satoshi Nakamoto launched a technology "completely decentralized, with no central server or trusted parties, because everything is based on crypto proof instead of trust," on top of the bitcoin network, the people building enterprises and interfacing with customers are just that — people, not algorithms.
Cotap, a messaging startup co-founded by two ex-Yammer executives, came out of stealth last year with a very specific aim: using the boom in smartphone usage to break down communication barriers between "knowledge workers" chained to computers and employees who are front line, out in the wild, and directly interfacing with customers.
"Mom, I have a board meeting today" That sounds important but really, entrepreneurs enjoy building products, interfacing with customers and generating revenues.
"I'm the kind of guy who likes to interface with our customers," says Jeff Chu, Arm's mobile computing manager.
Facebook has also been positioning itself as a platform for developers to add a social layer to their apps, and for businesses to interface with their customers.
