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Enabling Innovation in Credit Unions: Understanding and Managing Change

Enabling Innovation in Credit Unions: Understanding and Managing Change

by Brigene Litchfield | Mar 2, 2026 | Featured, News & Updates, Reflections Series, Uncategorized

THE REFLECTIONS SERIES: the insights and experience of practitioners Thanks to the author of this paper, Jen Lothian, DataWollet. This paper argues that credit unions must now deliberately build the capacity to change – not to abandon their values, but to...
New Reflections paper: Be Intentional About Culture … It Matters

New Reflections paper: Be Intentional About Culture … It Matters

by Nick Money | Mar 29, 2024 | Featured, News & Updates, Reflections Series

The latest paper in Swoboda’s Reflections series, Be Intentional About Your Culture … It Matters, addresses the vital organisational issue of culture. The author is Fintan Ryan, executive coach and former credit union CEO in Canada and Ireland. Here,...
New Paper! The Co-operative Bank: A case study of the Co-operative Difference

New Paper! The Co-operative Bank: A case study of the Co-operative Difference

by Nick Money | Mar 29, 2024 | Featured, News & Updates, Reflections Series

More ‘Reflections’! Swoboda is delighted to be releasing a new paper on The Co-operative Bank: a case study on the Co-operative Difference. The author of our latest Reflections paper is Barry Clavin, a member of the team that built The Co-operative Bank’s innovative...
Purposively Purposeful, from the Reflections Series

Purposively Purposeful, from the Reflections Series

by Nick Money | May 31, 2022 | Featured, News & Updates, Reflections Series, Welcome

New paper now available: Purposively Purposeful: the case for credit union clarity of purpose, by Matt Bland, CEO of Co-op Credit Union in Britain. This is the second in our Reflections series, based in practitioner experience rather than research. In this piece, Matt...
Introducing the Swoboda Reflections Series

Introducing the Swoboda Reflections Series

by Nick Money | Apr 21, 2022 | Featured, News & Updates, Reflections Series, Welcome

Swoboda Research Centre is proud to introduce the Reflections Series: a platform for practitioners – executives, directors and staff of credit unions and their stakeholders – to present their views and ideas. These papers are rooted in the experience of...

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