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Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group
Think for a moment at the blockchain events you have attended and at the presentations you have followed. Now try to remember how many times you have been presented use cases or basic applications (the so-called POCs-proof of concepts). Almost every time, true? Good. Now ask yourself: How many times have these cases been presented by the same com...
11 May 2018 Blockchain Observations
Gartner’s latest CIO Survey finds that only 1% of the more than 3,000 chief information officers (CIO) surveyed indicated any kind of blockchain adoption within their organizations, and only 8 percent of CIOs were in short-term planning or active experimentation with blockchain. 34% said they had no interest in the technology, while 43% of CIOs sa...
05 May 2018 Blockchain Observations
(the use case was proposed by a Certification Agency) It is widely recognized that with digital technology supply chains are more transparent, quality-rich, and competitive. Above all by focusing on product content description, both mandatory and voluntary, that can turn into a competitive advantage especially in international markets. On the one ...
29 April 2018 Blockchain Observations
The speed at which blockchain-based applications are evolving beyond pure financial transactions must not induce banks to mistakenly think that the business is running out of their hands. On the contrary, the relationships and trust that financial institutions have built with their corporate clients are the foundation of a healthy and productive en...
18 April 2018 /wholesale Futuristic Banking
Supply chain blockchain Proof of Concept (PoC) initiatives are showing that further progress is needed on the DLT technology before it will be ready to support production-grade applications in large-scale and mission-critical global supply chain infrastructures. While my research continues, I want to share my initial findings on what holds back PoC...
17 March 2018 Innovation in Financial Services
The analysis of use cases proposed by Community NdT participants continues. Certify the Existence of Goods in Inventory (proposed by Omlog- logistics services and Guerra- SME food processor). This solution is useful for companies that keep their goods in temporary stores (e.g., cross-docking). From the point of view of the logistics service provide...
04 March 2018 Innovation in Financial Services
The analysis of use cases proposed by Community NdT participants continues. Proof of Quality (proposed by Guerra, an Italian SME food processor). There are small-medium sized companies (SMEs) that operate in the business-to-business sector, supplying semi-finished products to larger-sized producers and consumer operators. Since long these SMEs have...
18 February 2018 Innovation in Financial Services
The analysis of use cases proposed by Community NdT participants continues. Inventory Finance (proposed by a winery). The use case leverages the characteristics of blockchain data traceability and uniqueness to access funding for the purchase and growth of vineyards and the transformation of wine products. Currently the winery advances the cash nee...
11 February 2018 Financial Supply Chain
While the blockchain theme in Italy is spreading across a growing number of events and publications, there are vast pockets of business entities- from small to large- that still totally ignore it. For these companies a continuous activity of information and diffusion remains necessary. There are- on the other side- fewer companies that have unders...
07 January 2018 Innovation in Financial Services
Banks will profile corporate credit risk blending financial indicators with supply chain performance metrics. This point represents the hinge that will connect corporate supply chain process data with innovative credit risk models for banks: Banks will capture and analyze events in the physical supply chain to generate a more profound and realistic...
21 December 2017 /wholesale Financial Supply Chain
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