When Xavier Marzan graduated from the Ateneo de Manila University with a degree in Management Engineering, he ventured on to a relatively different career in the early 2000s, the time when the Internet was on the rise. 'I have always been passionate about how technology and innovation can positively change…
Xavier Marzan, CEO and managing director of F, the innovation arm of the Filinvest Group of Companies.When Xavier Marzan graduated from the Ateneo de Manila University with a degree in Management Engineering, he ventured on to a relatively different career in the early 2000s, the time when the Internet was on the rise.
“I wanted to continue being where technology can make an impact,” he said and joined Globe to work on strategy and strategic transactions on the consumer telco side. Later on, he became an early CEO/COO at GCash, sharing that it is his “personal mission to bring more financial services to the masses through technology.”
A business or company, according to him, should start with a specific business aspiration, objective, or problem that they want to solve and less about the technology itself. To him, self-disrupt means the ability to future-proof oneself by changing internally first before outside forces or the market disrupts them.
But to get to innovation and transformation within Filinvest, Marzan said his thinking or framework for those are: first, transforming people by providing them the right mindset, tools, and techniques to innovate and make sure the organization is equipped to adapt; second, encourage “lighting a lot of fires for innovation” whether big or small and finding a way to vet or pursue them; and lastly, big innovation efforts have to be both “top-down” and “bottoms-up.
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