Branch Network Strategy in a Digital Decade
Decide what physical distribution is for when money left the building.
The executive challenge
The problem this program solves
The branch network strategy agenda is stuck between two truths: the strategy deck says transform, and the income statement says the legacy book still pays the salaries. Every partnership signed without governance economics becomes a renegotiation you conduct from weakness. In five days you rebuild the branch network strategy decision: value chains priced, scenarios stressed, partnerships structured, and a board-grade agenda sequenced.
Context
Why this matters now
Capability
What you will be able to do
- Diagnose where your institution creates — and destroys — value in branch network strategy across the balance sheet.
- Present a branch network strategy position to boards and supervisors with evidence they will accept.
- Read the economics of branch network strategy like an operator: unit costs, network effects and risk-adjusted return.
- Sequence a branch network strategy transformation agenda that a board will fund and a regulator will endorse.
The IPAT Course Standard
The five-day journey
Each day is a deliberate progression in managerial capability — from strategic context, to analytical frameworks, to applied practice, to executive judgement under pressure, to a capstone that produces something your organisation keeps.
IPAT Signature Case™
Deposits Leave at the Speed of a Rumour
A viral post questions a mobile-money platform’s solvency. The institution is sound, but its deposit base is concentrated and its app is the third-slowest in the market. By morning, the interbank line has tightened.
Your decision: Set the 72-hour posture — liquidity, communication and regulator engagement — with incomplete information about how far the run goes.
IPAT Data Lab™
A a development finance institution cannot see where its book is quietly deteriorating.
Dataset: Synthetic loan-book panel for a development finance institution: 80,000 facilities across segments with vintage and behaviour data.
Your task: Segment the portfolio, find concentration and deterioration, and design the repricing and workout response.
A portfolio decision pack presented to the faculty credit committee.
Data → Analysis → Decision, not Data → Code → Certificate
Day 5 · The Capstone
What will you change when you return to work?
Produce a digital finance transformation strategy for your institution: where to play, what to own, which partnerships, and the regulatory posture required.
Methodology
Frameworks you will master
- • IPAT Decision Intelligence Framework™
- • IPAT Transformation Architecture™
- • Value-chain decomposition
- • Risk-adjusted performance measurement (RAROC)
- • Basel-aligned capital and liquidity concepts
Cohorts
Upcoming cohorts
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