Challenge
The security of IT systems is particularly important for any bank. It is even more important for the first Swiss crypto bank with a FINMA license. For SEBA, the question was how a slowly establishing bank can maintain the agility and drive of a startup in a highly regulated environment. Within a very short time, a complete development environment with the highest security requirements as well as a management approach were needed that could navigate the company in this environment in an agile and purposeful manner.
Solution
SEBA's management decided not to introduce classic Management by Objectives with associated variable compensation. Instead, linkyard accompanied the bank-wide introduction of Objectives & Key Results, the management method used by Intel, Google & Co. Since SEBA's founding, linkyard has also been operating the business-critical software development environment together with tools for project management, IT service management and content collaboration in the SaaS model for the ambitious startup, which now has 100 employees.
"linkyard is one of the best service providers we have ever experienced. The operation is stable, the support excellent. As pioneers, we are particularly reliant on maintaining our innovation as well as our enthusiasm for modern entrepreneurship. With the introduction of OKRs, we've laid the foundation to maintain that momentum."
Geoff Pearson
Head IT Operations
