[라이센스뉴스 정재혁 기자] Woori Financial Group (Chairman Tae-Seung Son) announced on the 10th that it will hold a’Digital Innovation Town Hall Meeting’ at Woori Financial Digital Tower in Jung-gu, Seoul on the 8th, and provide unprecedented support for personnel and budgets in the digital sector of the group like Big Tech.
About 50 executives and staff members, including Woori Finance Chairman Son Tae-seung, Woori Bank Chairman Kwon Kwang-seok, and CEO of Woori Bank, participated in the town hall meeting in a non-face-to-face manner.
Earlier, in May of last year, Chairman Son declared’Digital First, Change everything’ as the group’s digital vision, launched the Digital Innovation Committee, and took charge of the digital innovation of the group by directing the chairman.
The town hall meeting on this day was also held with the idea of Chairman Son to prepare a place to openly solve all the difficulties in the field at the beginning of the year in order to achieve breakthrough results this year.
The town hall meeting was attended by Chairman Son, CEO of major subsidiaries such as Woori Bank, digital employees of the group, as well as executives and department heads in charge of strategy, finance, personnel, and brand.
Chairman Son said, “To become digital No. 1, 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 the executive in charge came up with a solution on the spot.
In particular, when a digital organization requested autonomy over budget or manpower management, Chairman Son ordered “to provide an unconventional solution to the level of big tech without any bylaws or legal issues.” We had a heated discussion for almost two hours.
Kwon Kwang-seok, head of Woori Bank’s core subsidiary, also 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.”
Chairman Son said, “As the obstacles for successful digital innovation have been settled, we will deliver breakthrough results in the first half of this year.” “As the first half of the year passes, the financial and non-financial performance of the group’s digital innovation, including evaluation of customers, employees and external surveys We will evaluate it closely.”