Irving Wladawsky-Berger
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Category: Blockchain and Identity
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I recently participated in a blockchain panel at a conference of senior supply chain executives from a variety of companies. I welcomed the opportunity to learn how these real-world executives feel about blockchain, as well as how to best communicate the promise and current state of this emerging and potentially transformative technology. Let me share…
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Identity plays a major role in everyday life. Think about going to an office, getting on a plane, logging to a website or making an online purchase. Identity is the key that determines the particular transactions in which we can rightfully participate as well as the information we’re entitled to access. But, we generally…
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One can look at the transformational impact of IT on companies and industries through a variety of lenses, – e.g., products and services, revenue and profit, sales and support, market strategy. One of the most important such lenses is the impact of IT on business processes, that is, on how work is actually done across…
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A killer app is an IT application whose value is simple to explain, its use is fairly intuitive, and the application turns out to be so useful that it helps propel the success of a product or service. Spreadsheets and word processing were major factors in the 1980s adoption of personal computers, for example. A…
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The January 21 issue of the NY Times Magazine included a very good article, Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble, by science writer Steven Johnson. His article aims to explain what blockchain, cryptocurrencies and related technologies are all about as well as their potential impact on the economy and society. These are not only complex but esoteric…
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Just about every industry has been significantly transformed in the past few decades. But few have been as disrupted as the music industry. Everything seems to be changing at once, from the way content is produced and delivered, to the sources of revenue and profits. Digital technologies, – the Internet, smartphones, cloud computing, … –…
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Two years ago, a group of leading CEOs from around the world met in China to discuss the major issues facing their companies in the global marketplace. The meeting was organized by the Center for Global Enterprise (CGE), – the nonprofit research institution founded by former IBM Chairman and CEO Sam Palmisano to study the…
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Last week I wrote about Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future, a recently published book by MIT’s Andy McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson. The book is organized into three main sections: Mind and Machine, Product and Platform, and Core and Crowd, each based on a business trend that’s significantly reshaping the business world. I based…
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“In primitive economies, people traded mostly with members of their village and community,” wrote David Brooks in a June, 2014 NY Times OpEd, – The Evolution of Trust. “Trust was face to face. Then, in the mass economy we’ve been used to, people bought from large and stable corporate brands, whose behavior was made more…
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A few weeks ago I wrote about the current state of blockchain. In particular, I asked whether blockchain is ready to cross the chasm from its early adopters, – who are already involved with blockchain in one way or another, – to the considerably larger set of mainstream users who may be considering blockchain but…