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The Real Business of Blockchain
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The Real Business of Blockchain

by David Furlonger, Christophe Uzureau
October 2019
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
6h 28m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Audiobook available
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PREFACE

January 3, 2019, marked the tenth anniversary of the first blockchain transaction. Within days of that inaugural transaction, we started having conversations with business executives about the potential of blockchain to create digital opportunities. Those conversations number by now in the thousands. We have also heard hundreds of technology providers promote their view of the technology. Those interactions made clear to us that senior executives like you face difficult choices.

Those among you who are just starting to explore blockchain may feel that the technology is so specialized and complex that it belongs in the domain of technology specialists. You might struggle to see how it is relevant to you and your business function, and ...

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781633698055