Digital Collaboration and the 21st C.

A company’s optimal strategic approach to blockchain will fundamentally be defined by the following two market factors, which are those they can least affect:

• market dominance—the ability of a player to influence the key parties of a use case
• standardization and regulatory barriers—the requirement for regulatory approvals or coordination on standards

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Our analysis suggests the following three key insights on the strategic value of blockchain:
– Blockchain does not have to be a disintermediator to generate value, a fact that encouraages permissioned commercial applications.
– Blockchain’s short-term value will be predominantly in reducing cost before creating transformative business models.
– Blockchain is still three to five years away from feasibility at scale, primarily because of the difficulty of resolving the “coopetition” paradox to establish common standards.

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