Blockchain Network Valuation
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…
Why blockchain companies fail?
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…
How will blockchain revolutionise Business Process Management?
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…
Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble
By STEVEN JOHNSON JAN. 16, 2018 This article first appeared in New York Times Photo illustration by Delcan & Company. Balloons by Jenue & Laura Ortega. The sequence of words is meaningless: a random array strung together by an algorithm let loose in an English dictionary. What makes them valuable is that they’ve been generated…
Traditional Telecom is dead. Reinvent with Blockchain or become obsolete
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…
Unlocking Blockchain applications in agriculture – Dr. Nishant Dass interview
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…
One country’s ban is another country’s boom
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 – Why does it matter?
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,…
Is Innovation More About People or Process? – A HBR article
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…
Seeing the Cube
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…