The findings identified the key prerequisites for the application landscape architecture of a financial institution. The dimensions of responsibility allocation, innovation culture, internationality, funding, participation, ecosystem and socioeconomics were scored on a scale from 1 to 7. This analysis demonstrated that the two banks exhibit the closest approximation in the dimension of funding, which is also the strongest expressed dimension. With regard to internationality, socioeconomics and innovation culture, wider discrepancies were identified.

This study developed an innovation architecture paradigm that allows financial institutions to visualise the status quo of their innovational readiness. The investigation was limited to the Swiss and South African finance industries, and the findings suggest that to validate and visualise the innovational readiness of a financial institution, financial institutions should validate and compare themselves with the innovation architecture paradigm.