Token Financing: How Tokenization Will Change the Economy
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March 10, 2020
Token financing has the opportunity to change the world economy drastically. Security tokens will enable organisations to bring real-world assets online, and decentralised finance (DeFi) aims to replace all existing financial services by decentralised solutions.
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How Decentralised Finance Will Change the World’s Economy
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February 12, 2020
How Decentralised Finance Will Change the World’s Economy
Blockchain offers many new solutions for existing applications. Two of the most exciting applications are supply chain and finance. Blockchain will be the gold standard for supply chain, and it will revolutionise the current financial s
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How Purpose-Driven Tokenisation Will Enable Innovative Ecosystems
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January 30, 2020
Tokens have been around for 1000s of years, but only recently have we seen the rise of digital tokens. Now, cryptographic tokens offer us an opportunity to redesign value streams and hence existing ecosystems. A well-designed token ecosystem unlocks value by bringing parties together in new ways and stimulates the target behaviour by having cryptographic tokens as built-in incentives. Tokens matter and offer us a chance to redesign existing and new ecosystems.
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How Purpose-Driven Tokenisation Will Enable Innovative Ecosystems
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January 29, 2020
How Purpose-Driven Tokenisation Will Enable Innovative Ecosystems
Tokens have been around for 1000s of years, but only recently have we seen the rise of digital tokens. Now, cryptographic tokens offer us an opportunity to redesign value streams and hence existing ecosystems. A well-designed token ec
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Why We Need Ethical AI: 5 Initiatives to Ensure Ethics in AI
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January 27, 2020
Artificial intelligence (AI) has already had a profound impact on business and society. Applied AI and machine learning (ML) are creating safer workplaces, more accurate health diagnoses and better access to information for global citizens. The Fourth Industrial Revolution will represent a new era of partnership between humans and AI, with potentially positive global impact. AI…
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Why We Need Ethical AI: 5 Initiatives to Ensure Ethics in AI
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January 23, 2020
Why We Need Ethical AI: 5 Initiatives to Ensure Ethics in AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has already had a profound impact on business and society. Applied AI and machine learning (ML) are creating safer workplaces, more accurate health diagnoses and better access to information for global citizens
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Datafloq Launches a New Initiative to Fight Fake News
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January 08, 2020
There is a serious trust problem on the internet. A famous saying is “On the internet, nobody knows if you are a dog”. Though this anonymity is crucial for an open internet, we now live in a world where fake (news) is the new normal, trolls control the internet and online accountability is non-existent.
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Clarifying the Path to Tokenisation
Medium.com
December 19, 2019
Recently, I got involved in the 2Tokens project. The 2Tokens project aims to clarify the path to realising value from Tokenisation. In the 17th century, The Netherlands transformed the economic landscape with the invention of the stock market. Our assertion is that tokenisation represents as fundamental a shift for the 21st century, but insufficient initiative is taking place to realise the benefits for The Netherlands.
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Clarifying the Path to Tokenisation
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December 18, 2019
Clarifying the Path to Tokenisation
Recently, I got involved in the 2Tokens project. The 2Tokens project aims to clarify the path to realising value from Tokenisation. In the 17th century, The Netherlands transformed the economic landscape with the invention of the stock market. Our assertion is tha
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How to Ensure Trust in a Digital World
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December 07, 2019
We have a trust issue. In our digital world, it has become increasingly difficult to trust each other. Whether it is another person, an organisation or a device, trust is no longer a given online. This is a serious problem for our society and our democracy. If trust is lacking in society, anarchy can be expected.
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How to Ensure Trust in a Digital World
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December 04, 2019
How to Ensure Trust in a Digital World
We have a trust issue. In our digital world, it has become increasingly difficult to trust each other. Whether it is another person, an organisation or a device, trust is no longer a given online. This is a serious problem for our society and our democracy. If
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The Top Seven Technology Trends for 2020
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November 29, 2019
We have reached the end of 2019 and just like in previous years, I am looking ahead to see what organisations can expect next year. 2019 was the year of truth, with many enterprises developing blockchain proof of concepts, Google confirming a quantum supremacy breakthrough and more data breaches with the latest breach containing 1.2 billion records. Now for the 8th year in a row, I offer you my technology predictions…
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4 Steps to be Successful with the Digital Transformation of Your Business
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November 21, 2019
According to McKinsey, data-driven organisations are 23x more likely to acquire customers, 6x more likely to retain customers and 19x more likely to be profitable. Being data-driven is good for business. Therefore, it is not a surprise that one question I always get when advising organisations is how to digitally transform your business and remain relevant in these…
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4 Steps to be Successful with the Digital Transformation of Your Business
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November 20, 2019
4 Steps to be Successful with the Digital Transformation of Your Business
According to McKinsey, data-driven organisations are 23x more likely to acquire customers, 6x more likely to retain customers and 19x more likely to be profitable. Being data-driven is good for business. Therefore, it is not
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Why the Organisation of Tomorrow comes with Great Responsibility?
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November 14, 2019
The organisation of tomorrow will be built around data using emerging technologies. Big data analytics empowers consumers and employees. This will result in real-time decision making and a better understanding of the changing environment. Blockchain enables peer-to-peer collaboration and trustless interactions governed by cryptography and smart contracts. Meanwhile, artificial…
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Why the Organisation of Tomorrow comes with Great Responsibility
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November 13, 2019
Why the Organisation of Tomorrow comes with Great Responsibility
The organisation of tomorrow will be built around data using emerging technologies. Big data analytics empowers consumers and employees. This will result in real-time decision making and a better understanding of the changing environme
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Why Tokens Matter and How to Clarify a Path Towards Tokenisation
Medium.com
November 09, 2019
The organisation of tomorrow, despite differences in industry, location, products and services on offer, will all have one thing in common: they will use some sort of token as the key enabler to their business. Organisations have multiple options when selecting the type of crypto token. The token economics they opt for influences the likelihood of success for the organisation…
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Why Tokens Matter and How to Clarify a Path Towards Tokenisation
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November 06, 2019
Why Tokens Matter and How to Clarify a Path Towards Tokenisation
The organisation of tomorrow, despite differences in industry, location, products and services on offer, will all have one thing in common: they will use some sort of token as the key enabler to their business. Organisations have multi
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7 Ways How AI Will Change Your Workplace, and Why Should You Care
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October 31, 2019
In the next five to ten years, your workplace will look fundamentally different. Thanks to technologies such as artificial intelligence, the internet of things and robotics work as we know it will drastically change. The future of work will come with great opportunities but also with plenty of challenges for organizations. It will require employees and management to adapt and…
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7 Ways How AI Will Change Your Workplace
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October 30, 2019
7 Ways How AI Will Change Your Workplace
In the next five to ten years, your workplace will look fundamentally different. Thanks to technologies such as artificial intelligence, the internet of things and robotics work as we know it will drastically change. The future of work will come with great op
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4 Ways to Ensure Data Security in Tomorrow’s Organisation
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October 24, 2019
Data security in tomorrow’s organisations will be fundamentally different than data security today. If you believe that data security today is a challenge, you will be surprised what it will be tomorrow. As I have said many times over: every organisation will be hacked, and if you are not yet hacked, you are simply not important enough. That counts for today, where human hackers have to be…
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4 Ways to Ensure Data Security in Tomorrow’s Organisation
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October 23, 2019
4 Ways to Ensure Data Security in Tomorrow’s Organisation
Data security in tomorrow’s organisations will be fundamentally different than data security today. If you believe that data security today is a challenge, you will be surprised what it will be tomorrow. As I have said many times over
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3 Concepts Defining the Future of Work: Data, Decentralisation and Automation
Medium.com
October 17, 2019
The organisation of tomorrow will look fundamentally different than today’s organisation. Those enterprises that are aware of the upcoming changes can best prepare and achieve competitive advantage in a data-driven society. Consequently, the future of work will require management and employees to take a different approach when it comes to creating and…
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3 Concepts that Define the Future of Work: Data, Decentralisation and Automation
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October 16, 2019
3 Concepts that Define the Future of Work: Data, Decentralisation and Automation
The organisation of tomorrow will look fundamentally different than today’s organisation. Those enterprises that are aware of the upcoming changes can best prepare and achieve competitive advantage in a data-driven so
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Why We Should Be Careful With AI
Datafloq
October 11, 2019
The development of AI comes with huge risks. Although extensive testing and governance processes are required, not all organisations will do so for various reasons. However, as a society we should ensure that all organisations – and governments – will focus on developing Responsible AI. This includes using unbiased training data, to minimise the influence of biased developers, to have a mixed data approach to include the wider context, to develop AI that can explain itself and to instil ethics into AI. A daunting task, but one we cannot ignore if we want to benefit from artificial intelligence in the long run.
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Why We Should Be Careful When Developing AI
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October 09, 2019
Why We Should Be Careful When Developing AI
Artificial intelligence offers a lot of advantages for organisations by creating better and more efficient organisations, improving customer services with conversational AI and reducing a wide variety of risks in different industries. Although we are only
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How Blockchain Proxy-Voting Improves Shareholder Engagement
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October 03, 2019
We live in an increasingly globalised world. Although some world leaders believe that the future belongs to patriots rather than globalists, technology is making the world an ever more integrated and smaller place.
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7 Blockchain Challenges to be Solved before Large-Scale Enterprise Adoption
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September 26, 2019
When organisations adopt new technologies, the context of that technology plays an important role. How people deal with the material properties of new technology is informed by their previous experience of using or not using similar technologies in the past. Since blockchain is still a new technology, how organisations adopt this technology also depends on how existing and related challenges are resolved. These affect how organisations apply blockchain and smart contracts, and whether the design and decision-making capabilities within will or can change at short notice.
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The Database of Tomorrow: The Self-Driving, Autonomous Database
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September 19, 2019
In the coming years, the amount of data we create worldwide will grow to 175 zettabytes of data per year by 2025, up from 33 zettabytes in 2018. Over half of this data will be created by the Internet of Things devices and over 60% of it will be enterprise data. By 2025, 30% of all the data created will be in real-time, offering organisations great opportunities to constantly optimise their business.
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September 16, 2019
Thanks, sure, done!
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Why Blending Data Analytics and Gut-Feeling Benefits your Business
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September 16, 2019
Understanding the impact of big data is not self-evident for many companies. Big data offers endless possibilities and as such organisations are, still, overwhelmed when it comes to big data analytics. Big data requires different technologies, new IT systems, new processes and a different way of working. Above all, big data requires a different culture and changing your…
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How Simple Economics and Technology Can Help Fight Climate Change
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September 13, 2019
Despite a lack of acceptance of some policymakers, climate change is a very real wicked problem. In the past decades, the impact of climate change on the world has been well-researched and documented. According to many scientists, climate change will have an impact on the world’s food supply [1], on human health [2], on the world’s marine ecosystems [3], on our biodiversity [4], and on our economic systems [5].
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How Blockchain Could Contribute to Ending Poverty in All Its Forms
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September 10, 2019
Blockchain can be a paradigm shift to end poverty, giving the poor the opportunity to monetize any (digital) capital and improve their…Continue reading on Noteworthy - The Journal Blog »
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Algorithms are Black Boxes, That is Why We Need Explainable AI
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September 04, 2019
Algorithms are black boxes that do not know what they do not know, as such we need Explainable AI to reduce bias and discrimination in AI.Continue reading on The Startup »
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A Distributed Future: Where Blockchain Technology Meets Organisation Design and Decision-making
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August 29, 2019
Blockchain technology records and forever maintains data that cannot be changed. It also involves ‘smart contracts’ and consensus mechanisms that govern processes of automation, as well as the development, evaluation and execution of decisions. Blockchain technology has the potential to transform organisation design due to its decentralised and distributed characteristics. To understand how blockchain will change organisation design and decision-making, let’s first dive into the history of organisation design before investigating the impact of this fundamental technology on organising activity.
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5 Blockchain Benefits for the Financial Services Industry
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August 28, 2019
How and why blockchain and decentralised and distributed technologies offer multiple and important benefits for the finance industry.Continue reading on Medium »
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5 Ways How Blockchain Will Change Your Travel
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August 22, 2019
Blockchain will change the travel industry and improve your travel experience by letting customers connect directly with service providers.Continue reading on ALTCOIN MAGAZINE »
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5 Ways How Blockchain is Changing Travel
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August 22, 2019
The myriad of companies that are involved in a single customer’s travel plans is one of the main reasons why many people are excited about how blockchain can transform the travel industry.
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3 Ways How the Internet of Things will change Marketing
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August 21, 2019
The Internet of Things will open a world of exciting possibilities for marketing to connect with their customers and engage with them.Continue reading on The Startup »
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How to Win your Customers for Life with Predictive Analytics
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August 20, 2019
Winning customers for life is still very difficult, but the availability of big data and predictive analytics makes it a lot easier.Continue reading on The Startup »
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How Big Data Will Enable Open Strategizing
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August 19, 2019
Big data analytics enable inclusiveness and transparency in strategy-making, resulting in a new, open, approach to developing strategy.Continue reading on DataSeries »
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How AI in Education Will Create the School of Tomorrow
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August 16, 2019
AI in education will change teaching. In the school of tomorrow, teachers and machines collaborate to optimise the learning experience.Continue reading on The Startup »
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How Zero-Knowledge Proof Increases Your Privacy While Enabling Trustless Transactions
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August 15, 2019
Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) uses cryptography to improve privacy, where trustless transactions on blockchain are governed by mathematics.Continue reading on The Startup »
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The School of the Tomorrow: How AI in Education Changes How We Learn
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August 14, 2019
The School of the Tomorrow: How AI in Education Changes How We Learn
We live in exponential times, and merely having a digital strategy focused on continuous innovation is no longer enough to thrive in a constantly changing world. To transform an organisation and contribute to building a secure and
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4 Ways Big Data Creates A Smart Transportation Industry
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August 14, 2019
Smart transportation offers operational efficiency, improved customer experiences, reduced fuel consumption and increased flexibility.Continue reading on The Startup »
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How Big Data Turns CRM into Something Truly Valuable
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August 13, 2019
Big Data CRM is a combination of managing, interacting, analyzing and knowing your customer and your customer touchpoints.Continue reading on DataSeries »
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How Big Data Can Help Save The Earth
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August 12, 2019
Big Data could help save the earth during climate change if done correctly and it could lead to significant results in the coming years.Continue reading on Medium »
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Are You Ready to Have a Robot as Your Boss?
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August 09, 2019
Robots and AI are increasingly taking over jobs, including various management roles. Are you ready to be managed by a robot or AI?Continue reading on The Startup »
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The Organisation of Tomorrow — Available Now!
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August 08, 2019
The Organisation of Tomorrow — Available Now!Earlier this year, I completed my PhD at the University of Technology Sydney. My research focused on how do emerging information technologies change the interaction of organisations and technologies. The title of my research was: Sociomateriality in
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Thanks to Emerging Technologies, the Future Will Never Be Slow Again
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August 07, 2019
Emerging technologies cause a paradigm shift as they enable organisations to easily incorporate intelligence and design smarter businesses.Continue reading on The Startup »
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The Top 11 Blockchains for Enterprise Organisations, and Why
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July 31, 2019
The Top 11 Blockchains for Enterprise Organisations, and Why
Organisations wanting to use blockchain technology to decentralise their data and collaborate with industry partners are now presented with a bewildering range of options. Since the Bitcoin revolution began in 2008, the number of blockchai
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How to Solve a Global Identity Crisis Using Blockchain
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July 23, 2019
We have an outdated identity system. You might not be aware of it because you are using it on a daily basis, and all seems to be fine. However, identity faces a major crisis, and we need to solve some big challenges. To achieve this, we have to bring identity into the 21st century. However, what is an identity? Only if we know what identity is, will we be able to change how we deal with identity.
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How to Ensure Your Privacy in a Data-Driven Future
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July 17, 2019
How to Ensure Your Privacy in a Data-Driven Future
There is a downside to the abundant presence of data in today’s society. Today’s tech giants such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Tencent and Alibaba have long recognised that data is a valuable asset. They have been aggregating vast amo
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7 Companies Protecting Your Food with Blockchain
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July 10, 2019
7 Companies Protecting Your Food with Blockchain
Food is important and you are what you eat. Eating healthy and good food is important if you wish to be fit and healthy. Even if you have an unhealthy diet, the occasional big mac, you want your food to be of good quality. Meaning you want your food t
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Are You Ready for a Smart Hospitality Industry?
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July 03, 2019
Are You Ready for a Smart Hospitality Industry?
The hospitality industry is all about delivering the best guest experience. Whether this is in the local restaurant around the corner, the five-star beach resort that you visit during your holiday or the conference venue where you attend an event. Supe
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Libra is Here: What Does a Facebook Cryptocurrency Mean for the World?
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June 19, 2019
Libra is Here: What Does a Facebook Cryptocurrency Mean for the World?
After months of speculation, Facebook has revealed its Libra blockchain and the Libra coin to the world. The highly-anticipated cryptocurrency ran into immediate opposition in Europe and the United States. The French Finance Mini
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The Importance of Balance and Intelligent Spend in the Organisation of Tomorrow
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June 12, 2019
The Importance of Balance and Intelligent Spend in the Organisation of Tomorrow
Today is the slowest business will ever run. In today’s world, it is the small companies that beat the large enterprises with speed and agility, according to Valerie Blatt – Global Vice President SAP. Companies such
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Blockchain and Trust: Advantages of a Decentralised System
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June 06, 2019
Blockchain has the potential to revolutionise the way we leverage trust and even the way we think about trust. It is a fundamental good. While largely intangible, it is key to the functioning of practically every meaningful interaction in society.
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Blockchain and Trust: The Advantages of a Decentralised System
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June 05, 2019
Blockchain and Trust: The Advantages of a Decentralised System
Blockchain has the potential to revolutionise the way we leverage trust and even the way we think about trust. It is a fundamental good. While largely intangible, it is key to the functioning of practically every meaningful interaction i
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Why the Government of Tomorrow is Also a Data Organisation
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May 28, 2019
Why the Government of Tomorrow is Also a Data Organisation
Nowadays, every organisation is a data organisation. This not only applies to commercial organisations, but also to governments. Governments at every level – local, regional, national and supranational – should take a different approach
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How AI Will Disrupt the Financial Sector
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May 23, 2019
Artificial intelligence thrives with data. The more data you have, the better your algorithms will be. However, just having a lot of data is not sufficient anymore. You also need high-quality data, or in the words of Peter Norvig, you need better data:
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Why Our Fast-Changing World Requires Us to Change How We Collaborate
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May 16, 2019
The world around us is changing faster than ever before. It is changing politically (Brexit), socially (generation Z hitting the labour market), technologically (AI, quantum computing, blockchain and IoT coming our way), economically (continuous trade wars between US and China and the upcoming economic powerhouse China) as well as environmentally (climate change). This is a significant challenge for citizens to deal with.
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Seen and Be Seen: How Facial Recognition Will Change Society
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May 09, 2019
With the number of cameras drastically increasing in our world, facial recognition is rapidly taking flight. Facial recognition is a biometric faceprint, where artificial intelligence maps an individual’s face mathematically. This faceprint is then stored in data. Later, the stored data can be compared with a live or digital image using deep learning to verify someone’s identity.
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Seven Guidelines to Ensure Ethical AI
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May 02, 2019
The organisation of tomorrow will be built around data, and it will require artificial intelligence to make sense of all that data. Artificial intelligence is a broad discipline with the objective to develop intelligent machines.
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How to Prepare for an Automated Future: 7 Steps to Machine Learning
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April 24, 2019
The increasingly digital economy requires boards and executives to have a solid understanding of the rapidly changing digital landscape. Naturally, artificial intelligence (AI) is an important stakeholder. Those organisations that want to prepare for an automated future should have a thorough understanding of AI. However, AI is an umbrella term that covers multiple disciplines, each affecting the business in a slightly different way.
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Five Blockchain Trends for You to Consider this Year
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April 18, 2019
The blockchain ecosystem is rapidly expanding. New blockchains or different consensus mechanisms are announced continuously, resulting in a more mature ecosystem. For blockchain technology to achieve wide-scale adoption, a decentralised ecosystem has to be developed. To achieve a decentralised society, many more components need to be built, requiring global standards and large investments.
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Could Blockchain Prevent the Internet of Vulnerable Things?
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April 11, 2019
The Internet of Things is coming. Unfortunately, connected devices have a variety of vulnerabilities and almost any smart device is a vulnerable device. Security issues include technical problems (outdated software, insecure data transmissions, etc.) and people problems (simple and default passwords, public Wi-Fi, etc.). As more devices connect to the internet and each other without proper security, the Internet of Things will quickly become the Internet of Vulnerable Things.
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Blockchain Requires Industry Collaboration: The Launch of INATBA
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April 04, 2019
When the web was developed over 25 years ago, the technologies in place significantly lowered the cost of building a global company. Thanks to the internet, it has become possible to reach a large part of the global population simply from behind your computer. Those companies who first understood the power of the web, and managed to execute their vision correctly, are now the leading global monopolies we are so familiar with: we use Google for finding information, Facebook or WeChat for social activities, Amazon to shop and Apple for our hardware, etc.
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Why AI Will Make Organisations More Humane
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March 14, 2019
The organisation of tomorrow will be built around data. This will require smart algorithms to make sense of all that data. AI will enable organisations to leverage data and embed smartness in every process and customer touchpoint. When you put smartness to work, it will empower your employees and customers and make your organisation more humane.
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Why Academic Research Should Be Freely Available to All
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March 07, 2019
This week, the University of California announced that they cancelled the Elsevier subscription for academic journals. Elsevier refused to lower their fees and make UC articles open access available. This is a significant move as the University of California is one of the biggest producers of academic articles – with 50.000 articles per year. However, for many, this move might not have been very relevant. Therefore, some background information is required.
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Why Datafication is Key for the Organisation of Tomorrow
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February 28, 2019
Imagine, it is Friday afternoon, and after a long week at work, you and your colleagues decide to go to the bar to unwind and refresh with a nice cool glass of beer. You go to your favourite pub and upon reaching the bar order a few pints. However, instead of the bartender giving you your beloved beer, he hands you a plastic card and tells you that from now on, you can pour your own beer as much as you want and as often as you want.
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How to Control AI that Becomes Too Advanced?
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February 21, 2019
Artificial Intelligence is rapidly becoming more advanced. One of the organisations working on AI is OpenAI; the not-for-profit artificial intelligence research organisation co-founded by Elon Musk. Last week, they produced a paper demonstrating the progress they have made on predictive text software.
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How Security Tokens Could Change Liquidity and Transform the World’s Economy
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February 14, 2019
Traditionally, assets such as real estate, collectables and art have been relatively illiquid. This means that the asset cannot be easily bought or sold in the market. If an investor wants to sell a $100 million building, it usually will take some time before the investor has the money, if there is a market for in the first place. On the other hand, a company’s stock is relatively liquid as it can be quite easily converted into cash. Cash is considered the standard for liquidity as it can be converted into another asset at any moment.
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Why Ricardian contracts, not Smart Contracts, are Blockchain’s Killer Application
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February 07, 2019
Smart contracts have been dubbed the killer application of distributed ledger technology. Within every industry, smart contracts will provide significant efficiency benefits. They will reduce transaction times between stakeholders from weeks to minutes or seconds. Especially within global supply chains, smart contracts will kickstart data-enabled collaboration. They can offer trust, provenance and security while enabling instant transactions.
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Understanding the Elements of Artificial Intelligence
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January 31, 2019
Artificial Intelligence is here to stay. The development of AI is speeding up on a daily basis. Only recently, Google’s DeepMind created the AI AlphaStar that secured a decisive victory against two grandmaster players of the game of StarCraft II. In a series of test matches they played, the algorithm won 5-0.
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What is a Security Token Offering (STO) and Could it Replace the ICO?
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January 30, 2019
In 2017, there were 875 Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), raisingUS$6,23 billion, which equals on average US$7,12 million per ICO. In 2018, there were 1257 ICOs that raised US$7,85 billion, which comes down to an average of US$6,25 million. Not surprisingly, the vast majority of these ICOs were done in the first months of 2018. In the past four months of 2018, the total amount raised was $873 million. There are no details yet on the deals done so far in 2019, but it can be safe to say that the amount will not be high. In the past years, we have seen the rise and fall of the Initial Coin Offering.
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Why the Crypto Winter is Good for Blockchain
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January 17, 2019
In April 2017, the total market cap of the cryptocurrency market was US$25 billion. Nine months later, on January 8, 2018, the market cap reached its highest point of US$813 billion. A staggering increase of 3252% in just nine months. However, one month later, as of February 6, 2018, the market cap dropped to US$308 billion. A drop of 62% in just one month. End of November 2018, the market dropped to US$ 122 billion, another drop of 60% since February 2018. Since then, it has sort of stabilised around this market cap. It is clear that we are in a crypto winter.
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To Save Innovation, We Need to Change Science
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January 09, 2019
Science's primary activity is discovery. It aims to explain how the world works and we can use that knowledge to change our world. To do so, over the centuries, the scientific method was developed, and it has proven its value. It helps us answer practical, but often important, questions. Answering these questions often lead to innovations that improve our world.
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3 New Year’s Resolutions for Your Organisation in 2019
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January 03, 2019
2019 promises to be the Year of Truth, with a lot of new exciting developments. Blockchain will become the gold standard for supply chains, and crypto currencies will slowly start to increase in value again (though not bitcoin). There will be significant developments in quantum computing and machine learning, creating new opportunities to advance research. However, not all will be positive this year, as we will see new major security breaches this year.
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2018 in Review: The Year of Transition is Over
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December 19, 2018
Last year, I called 2018 the Year of Transition because technological developments are accelerating, but they had not yet reached the state of full maturity. Indeed, artificial intelligence did leap forward, with Uber developing a new machine learning technique and AI beating humans in the game Dota 2. As I correctly predicted, the ICO hype came to a near standstill. Among others due to the crypto bear market and additional scrutiny from regulators such as the SEC. We saw a new approach to data ownership with the launch of Solid PODs by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Finally, we saw that quantum computing is developed a lot faster than many had expected.
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3 Reasons Not to Use Blockchain in Your Organisation
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December 13, 2018
For the past years, blockchain has been a huge buzzword. Especially after the crypto hype of 2017, organisations were convinced that they had to do something with blockchain. If only it was changing your company name to include blockchain in it. Although we have are in a bear crypto market, blockchain remains a buzzword.
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The Top 7 Technology Trends for 2019
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December 06, 2018
As the year comes to an end, it is time to look ahead to see what the next year will bring us. Last year, I predicted that 2018 would be the Year of Transition and a lot has happened indeed. The crypto market crashed with 60% since its peak at the beginning of the year. In addition, as I predicted, a new approach to data ownership is coming with Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s launch of Solid PODs. Now for the 7th year in a row, I offer you my two cents on the most important technology trends for 2019 to help you, and your business, prepare for the next year.
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5 Qualities Your Next Chief Information Security Officer Should Have
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November 29, 2018
In a world where dataism has become the new normal for organisations, security has become a high priority. Or at least, it should be a top priority for organisations. Unfortunately, the reality is different, and every year, many consumers still become the victim of one of the hundreds of data breaches. Any organisation can be hacked, and without sufficient security measures in place, it can become very expensive.
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Why Blockchain is Quickly Becoming the Gold Standard for Supply Chains
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November 22, 2018
Global supply chains are complex processes. Different companies, with distinctive objectives, are working together to achieve a common goal; to bring something from A to B. For a supply chain to work, partners have to trust each other. To do so, there are multiple checks-and-balances, extensive documents and different checkpoints all interacting in a web of bureaucratic processes. Knowing the amount of paperwork required to send a product from farm to plate, it is remarkable that we have managed to develop global supply chains.
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Make Your Business Smarter with IBM Watson Studio
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November 15, 2018
A smart business is one that runs on the numbers. Today, open communication means more access to customers and competition than ever. Even small companies have world-wide customer lists, in part due to the increasingly streamlined logistics companies that help with shipping. In a business world of static customers and increasing competition, staying ahead of the curve often means staying on the leading edge of technology. Smart businesses leverage technology for direct gains, and that all comes down to the data. Efficiency improvements, trend tracking, smooth workflows and dozens of other internal operational improvements depend on the data you can collect and interpret.
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Incorporating Analytics into Your Organisation: 9 Use Cases
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November 07, 2018
Descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive analytics can each provide insights into the business and as such improve and optimise your performance and increase your competitive advantage. Descriptive and diagnostic analytics enable organisations to learn, sense, filter, shape and calibrate opportunities by providing insights as to what has happened in their environment. This will allow your organisation to better sense opportunities than the competition. Predictive analytics can improve your decision-making across your organisation to help you understand which opportunities are best to be seized depending on their future outcome.
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Including Deep Learning into your Applications: How IBM Watson Studio's Services can Help
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November 01, 2018
Using AI to automate processes means substantial efficiency improvements in nearly any business function. Now, that same solution is being deployed to create better, faster and smarter AI technologies. Think of IBM Watson Studio as an AI that trains other AIs. It helps automate the Deep Learning process, so you can train your system to handle independent tasks much more rapidly. After all, some of the biggest barriers to entry with AI technology are the availability of skilled programmers, standardized formats for easy deployment and the sheer complexity involved in training any AI. With IBM Watson Studio services now available, those barriers are now awfully thin.
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How to Improve the Customer Experience with the Intelligent Enterprise?
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October 25, 2018
If you take care of your customers, your customers will take care of your shareholders. It is that simple. To create value for your shareholders, you should focus on your customers. Offering your most important stakeholder what they need, when they need it. Unfortunately, many organisations fail to recognise the customer as their most important stakeholder. Thereby threatening the success of the organisation.
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How to Build the Organisation of Tomorrow?
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October 17, 2018
A question that I get asked a lot is how should organisations navigate today’s digital transformation? An interesting question that encompasses different layers. It depends on who asks the question, the company involved, the industry the company is in, the size of the company, etc. Since the arrival of information technologies, digital transformation has been on the agenda for many organisations. Most of these organisations seem to be struggling with it.
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7 Enterprise Blockchain Use Cases
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October 10, 2018
With the development of distributed ledger technology now ten years in the making, slowly enterprises are exploring the possibilities of blockchain as well. While most of the blockchain startups working on innovative solutions focus on public and/or permissionless blockchains, enterprises will predominantly use private and/or permissioned blockchains.
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Building the Decentralised Ecosystem – Who is Involved?
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October 03, 2018
Last week, Sir Tim Berners-Lee revealed his new vision, one where the internet becomes decentralised again as he originally had envisioned it. His technology is called Solid POD and will allow every internet user to store their own data, be it video; articles; wearable tracking data or comments, and share that with anyone or any website that has connected to the Solid ecosystem. Using the Solid POD, the user will remain in full control over their own data and who has access to it and who not.
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The 5P’s of a Self-Sovereign Identity
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September 27, 2018
Increasingly, big data is invading consumers’ lives. It affects consumers' privacy as the web has become such a centralised platform. When you have centralised organisations collecting so much consumer data and using it to offer personalised advertising to their users, it causes problems. As Jonathan Taplin discussed in his book Move Fast and Break Things, organisations that have access to so much data and use it to steer consumer behaviour could directly undermine our democracy. These centralised organisations do not forget or forgive. Since actions (i.e. data) speak louder than words, it is possible that data are defining human beings.
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