Valuation approaches for distributed network-based companies  Roop Singh, Munir Tawfiq Traditional valuation methodologies are limited in valuing early-stage blockchain networks for the purposes of investment and deals activity. Valuation methods are used to attribute “value” to assets, technologies, intellectual property, brands, user bases, and resulting network effects, and any other tangible or intangible that can…

A Blockchain Business Diagnostic Model Roop Singh, Dr. Nishant Dass, Dr. Al Tilooby, Justin Breen Why read this report Using a 32-point criteria for evaluating blockchain companies, this summary report  presents a diagnostic model to assess their success as well as challenges holistically. It identifies 25 companies which we researched, analyzed, and scored, to exemplify…

Roop Singh & Ian Hawkins This article first appeared on The PEX Network Annual Report – The Global State of Process Excellence & Transformation 2018 If you’ve ever read Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations (1776), you’ll know that Business Process Management is older than the United States of America: ‘A workman not educated to…

by Srinivas Konteti and Roop Singh Introduction Blockchain is creating a buzz in the market, and rightfully so. Why not? It’s one of the revolutionary technology inventions after the Internet revolution of 1990’s and SmartPhone revolution of late 2000’s. Undoubtedly, some of the startups and enterprises are already on their way to disrupt markets. They…

Original post here by Tim Hammerich “Future of Agriculture” Host Blockchain Can Help Provide Product Journey: But Do Consumers Care? Nishant Dass offers some use case examples for blockchain in food supply chains. I recently had the opportunity to interview Dr. Nishant Dass from the Scheller School of Business at Georgia Tech about blockchain. After…

Chinese Exchanges Move Abroad in Search of Friendlier Regulation “In fact, recent reports indicate that many of these companies have begun the process of applying for licenses to operate in Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea and Singapore, all of which are places where bitcoin trading and exchanges aren’t strictly regulated, and where the firms can…

Blockchain is not merely yet another technology. Imagine being born in the time when a combustion engine was invented and railroads were mass adopted in the 1800s. It fundamentally transformed trade, commerce, transportation, travel, and war. It impacted how we as humans exchanged ideas, how we created people connections, what we bought, what we ate,…

https://hbr.org/2015/02/is-innovation-more-about-people-or-process What’s more critical to producing a breakthrough innovation – finding creative people or finding creative ideas? This is a question Pixar head Ed Catmull has asked a great many people, and he says they tend to be pretty much split on it 50/50. This astonished Catmull. Fresh off eight blockbuster successes in a row…

Client: “So we’ll have yet another document. What’s the point?” Have you ever had someone on the client side question the value of “documenting” the process?  It’s a valid question; what is the point of creating yet another document that is bound to get outdated (and join a million other outdated documents), soon after we…

Business process management (BPM) initiatives frequently start with a tactical process improvement charter, but they get pushed to play a more strategic role across the enterprise — often being tapped to help transform customer-facing business processes and increase operational agility. Unfortunately, many teams miss out on this opportunity to play a wider role because they failed…

Ahead of the Gartner Business Process Management Summit 2014, to be held in London on March 19-20 and in Sydney on May 19-20 2014, Gartner has identified 15 skills critical to the success of any BPM project. They can be grouped into three types of critical competency: transformational, operational and technical (see Figure 1). Figure…