Join our engaging and interactive online workshop; designed to identify innovation opportunities within your organisation and lay a foundation for continued support.

You will be facilitated through exercises to understand how your organisation runs from an internal operations and customer facing perspective, and identify opportunities to address challenges or drive new innovation effectively.

We will look across different innovation options including (but not limited to) the use of technology, automation, process or customer experience improvements, new markets or your marketing strategy.

Workshop Details

Format: Half-day virtual session
Date: Various dates available
Duration: 4 hours, including a 5-10 minute breaks at regular intervals

What You'll Gain

Workshop Objectives:
- Map key internal and external workflow for how you operate.
- Understand people, processes and systems in place.
- Identify and vote on key challenges that can be addressed within potential innovation activity
Expected Outcomes:
- Identify internal or customer focused innovation opportunities in your organisation.
- Enable Future Finance tailor your accelerator journey and suggest best options to support you. This may include getting access to consultancy options to execute your innovation.

Who Should Attend

If you are a financial service or FinTech organisation based in the UK, looking to assess how to enhance efficiency and drive growth, this workshop is for you. It’s designed to help participants identify key customer and organisational challenges and innovation opportunities, informing next steps and enabling Future Finance to tailor support recommendations.

To gain the most from this session, we strongly recommend attendance by 2-3 individuals per organisation. This approach ensures a deeper understanding of your customer journey and internal capabilities, empowering your team to drive meaningful and innovative change.

Before the Workshop

Please complete the Innovation Potential Diagnostic before attending.

This assessment will help our trainers and the Future Finance team better understand your needs and provide focused guidance moving forward.

By the end of the session, you will have actionable insights, identified key challenges and selected priority opportunities to explore innovation potential. This also enables Future Finance to personalise and tailor recommendations to support your innovation journey.

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Future Finance part of a programme called Next Generation Professional and Financial Services, delivered by Innovate UK and ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council).

This programme aims to help professional service sectors, including accounting and law, and the financial service sectors, including insurance, lending, advisory and payment services, develop and use digital technologies.