The book discusses the various ways that blockchain technology is changing the future of money, transactions, government, and business. The first two chapters walk through the foundation of blockchain. Chapters 3–12 look at applications of blockchain in different industries and highlight its exciting new business applications. It show why so many companies are implementing blockchain, and present examples of companies who have successfully employed the technology to improve efficiencies and reduce costs. Chapter 13 highlights blockchain’s powerful potential to foster emerging markets and economies including smart cities, value-based healthcare, decentralized sharing economy, machine to machine transactions, data-sharing marketplace, etc. Chapter 14 offers a conceptual model, provides information and insights, and covers a step-by-step approach to plan and develop blockchain-based technology.
Chapter
1. Introduction.- Chapter
2. The Evolution of
Blockchain.- Chapter
3. Blockchain Principles, Qualities, and
Business Applications.- Chapter
4. Financial Services: The Largest Blockchain
Market.- Chapter
5. Manufacturing and Industrial.- Chapter
6. Government and
Public Sector.- Chapter
7. Healthcare and Life Sciences.- Chapter
8. Consumer
Goods and Retail Industry.- Chapter
9. Food Industry.- Chapter
10. Blockchain
and Cybersecurity.- Chapter
11. Data Management.- Chapter
12. Blockchain for
Gaming.- Chapter
13. New Business Applications for the Blockchain.- Chapter
14. Implementing Blockcchain in Your Enterprise.- Chapter
15. Summary and
Conclusions.
Mohsen Attaran is the 20042005 Millie Ablin Outstanding Professor of Management at the California State University, Bakersfield. He is Founder and President of IES, Inc., a web and mobile app development company and has founded, launched, and managed several businesses in his career in a variety of technological fields. Angappa Gunasekaran is Dean and a professor at the School of Business and Public Administration, California State University, Bakersfield. He has organized several international workshops and conferences in the emerging areas of operations management and information systems.
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