[서울=뉴스핌] Reporter Kim Jin-ho = Tae-seung Son, chairman of Woori Financial Group, said, “I will not spare support for the group’s digital sector in terms of personnel and budgets like Big Tech.”
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| [서울=뉴스핌] Reporter Jin-ho Kim = Woori Financial Group held a’Digital Innovation Town Hall Meeting’ at Woori Financial Digital Tower in Jung-gu, Seoul on the 8th. Tae-seung Son, chairman of Woori Financial Group and executives and employees of subsidiaries are conducting non-face-to-face video conferences. 2021.01.08 [email protected] |
According to Woori Finance on the 10th, Chairman Son said this after presiding over the’Digital Innovation Town Hall Meeting’ at Woori Finance Digital Tower in Jung-gu, Seoul on the 8th.
The town hall meeting was attended by CEOs of major subsidiaries such as Son and Woori Bank, digital executives and employees of the group, as well as executives and department heads in charge of strategy, finance, human resources, and brand.
Chairman Son said at the meeting that, “To become digital number one, all executives, regardless of affiliation, must change their mindset and fully support them for successful digital innovation.”
The meeting was held in a way that all the obstacles to digital transformation were discussed, and a solution was developed by the responsible executive on the spot.
In particular, when a digital organization requested autonomy over budget or manpower management, Chairman Son ordered, “Please come up with an unconventional solution to the level of big tech within the scope of no bylaws or legal issues,” and related executives immediately presented a solution for 2 hours. There was a heated discussion close by.
Kwon Kwang-seok, head of Woori Bank’s core subsidiary, said, “Digital innovation is the group’s top priority this year.” “Woori Bank will also set’Digital First, Digital Initiative’ as its management goal to support the group’s digital innovation successfully.”
Lastly, Chairman Son said, “As the obstacles for successful digital innovation have been cleared up, we will deliver breakthrough results in the first half of this year. As soon as the first half passes, financial and non-financial performance of the group’s digital innovation including evaluation of customers, employees and external Will be evaluated closely.”
Meanwhile, Chairman Son declared’Digital First, Change everything’ as the group’s digital vision in May of last year, launched the Digital Innovation Committee, and took charge of the digital innovation of the group by directing the chairman.
This Town Hall meeting was also held with the idea of Chairman Son to prepare a place to openly solve all difficulties in the field at the beginning of the year in order to achieve breakthrough results this year.