Manager's Guide to Blockchains for Business: From Knowing What to Knowing How

This book provides a comprehensive guide for leaders, managers, business students, and other inquisitive people who want to understand how enterprises can use blockchains to transact directly with trading partners, automatically execute business agreements, instantly track and trace assets through a supply chain, and settle transactions quickly and cheaply on a secure platform. It focuses on the business challenges that must be overcome to realize the promised business value and presents a three-phased framework and action principles for making blockchains for business real.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 25 June 2018
Publisher: SB Publishing

This comprehensive guide is written for leaders, managers, business students, and other inquisitive people who want to understand how enterprises can use blockchains to transact directly with trading partners; automatically execute business agreements; instantly track and trace assets through a supply chain; and settle transactions quickly and cheaply on a secure platform. While readers will learn enough about the underlying technology to speak intelligently to blockchain experts, the guide focuses on the business challenges that must be overcome to realize the promised business value. The author presents a three-phased framework and action principles for making blockchains for business real. Most imperatively, global enterprises will need to shift their mindsets when moving from their current command-and-control centralized business applications to the shared governance models of distributed blockchain applications.

This comprehensive guide is written for leaders, managers, business students, and other inquisitive people who want to understand how enterprises can use blockchains to transact directly with trading partners; automatically execute business agreements; instantly track and trace assets through a supply chain; and settle transactions quickly and cheaply on a secure platform. While readers will learn enough about the underlying technology to speak intelligently to blockchain experts, the guide focuses on the business challenges that must be overcome to realize the promised business value. The author presents a three-phased framework and action principles for making blockchains for business real. Most imperatively, global enterprises will need to shift their mindsets when moving from their current command-and-control centralized business applications to the shared governance models of distributed blockchain applications.

Weight: 720g
Dimension: 193 x 244 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780995682047