How Does the Recent Unemployment Rate Impact Your Business Strategy and Why Should You Care?
With a decreasing unemployment rate, finding qualified workers has become more of a struggle. Vic Pantea offers various strategies to help find the right people and improve where you can through technology and cooperative partners.
Five Things to Love About Credit Unions
On a day meant for celebrating love, Megan Ernsberger reminds us of some of the reasons we love credit unions. What do you love about your credit union?
To My Credit Union: Help Me Break Up With the Banks!
This Valentine’s Day, Kasey Hawkins is looking to break up with the banks by calling on her credit union to make an appealing offer and lure her away from the clutches of big banks once and for all. Will she succeed?
An Example for Today’s Credit Union Pioneers
A 95-year-old lesson on pioneering new credit unions is still applicable today. Chip Filson shares the lesson of fifteen women with $4.50, the difference that can make, and wonders who will be the pioneer of credit unions today.
Take a Step Back to Plan Your Backup Strategy
Chris Shelton know that when it comes to planning your credit union’s backup and retention plan, it can be difficult to understand all the components that go into storing data and what will work best for your credit union. Thankfully, he’s here to help you figure it out.
Continuity At The Core: Planning For The Unexpected
In the first entry of his new series on business continuity, Jim Lawrence details the purpose behind business continuity and the overall benefits of having a plan that is consistently tested, updated, and improved upon.
ACH: The Past, Present, and Future
As the demand for faster direct deposit and electronic payments increases, the Automated Clearing House is working meet expectations. Jeff Miller dives into the history of ACH and how it plans to keep up with future advancements.
Data Is No Longer the Future, It Is Today
“Big Data” has been all the rage time and again in the past, but data strategies have become ubiquitous. Are credit unions keeping up? Annalyn Hawkes takes a look and offers five areas credit unions could approach data to improve results.
Recommendations for Choosing a Technology Services Vendor
Deciding on technology vendors is a complex and important process. To help you make the right choice, Matt Sawtell has compiled a list of things to consider when choosing which vendor will work best for your credit union.
Creating and Actively Following Your Credit Union Mission Statement
It’s one thing to have a mission statement, it’s another to actively follow it in your credit union’s daily business. Danielle Caliendo lays out why it’s important to have a community focused mission statement – and have your staff aim to live by it every day.
