Eighty-four percent of executives surveyed by PwC report blockchain initiatives underway \u2013 15% fully live.<\/p>\n
The new research from PwC \u2013 Blockchain is Here. What\u2019s Your Next Move? <\/i>\u2013 surveyed 600 executives in 15 countries and territories, on their development of blockchain and views on its potential.<\/p>\n
As blockchain rewires business and commerce, the research provides one of the clearest signals yet of organisations\u2019 fear of being left behind as blockchain developments accelerate globally opening up opportunities including reduced cost, greater speed and more transparency and traceability.<\/p>\n
A quarter of executives report a blockchain implementation pilot in progress (10%)or fully live (15%). Almost a third (32%) have projects in development and a fifth (20%) are in research mode.<\/p>\n
The US (29%), China (18%), Australia (7%) are perceived as the most advanced currently in developing blockchain projects. However within three to five years, respondents believe China will have overtaken the US (30%), shifting the early centre of influence and activity from the US and Europe.<\/p>\n
The survey reflects the early dominance of financial services developments in blockchain with 46% identifying it as the leading sector currently and 41% in near term (3-5 years). Sectors identified by respondents with emerging potential within 3-5 years include energy and utilities (14%), healthcare (14%) and industrial manufacturing (12%).<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat business executives tell us is that no-one wants to be left behind by Blockchain, even if at this early stage of its development, concerns on trust and regulation remain,\u201d comments Steve Davies, Blockchain Leader, PwC.<\/p>\n
\u201cA well \u2013 designed blockchain doesn\u2019t just cut out intermediaries, it reduces costs, increases speed, reach, transparency and traceability for many business processes. The business case can be compelling, if organisations understand what their end game is in using the technology, and match that to their design.\u201d<\/p>\n
Blockchain\u2019s biggest benefits will be developed and delivered through shared industry wide platforms. But the study notes that this won\u2019t happen without industry specific companies \u2013 including competitors \u2013 agreeing common standards and operating together.<\/p>\n
Despite the technology\u2019s potential, respondents identified trust as one of the biggest blockers to blockchain\u2019s adoption. 45% identified it as blocker to blockchain adoption: 48% believe its regulatory uncertainty. Concern about trust amongst users is highest in Singapore (37%); UAE (34%) and Hong Kong (35%), reflecting in part the dominance of financial services in blockchain development. Concern about regulatory uncertainty was highest in Germany (38%); Australia (37%) and the UK (32%).<\/p>\n
\u201cBlockchain by its very definition should engender trust. But in reality, companies confront trust issue at nearly every turn. Failing to state a clear business case from the outset leads to projects stalling,\u201d continues Steve Davies, PwC. \u00a0\u201cBusinesses needs to put more effort into building into their design how they can tackle trust and regulatory concerns.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCreating and implementing blockchain to realise its potential is not an IT project. It\u2019s a transformation of business models, roles, and processes. It needs a clear business case, an ecosystem to support it; with rules, standards and flexibility to deal with regulatory change built in.\u201d<\/p>\n
One in three of those respondents who reported little or no involvement with blockchain cited the reason for a lack of progress as cost (31%), uncertainty over where to start (24%) and governance issues (14%).<\/p>\n
The study identifies four key areas for focus in the development of internal or industry wide blockchain platforms:<\/p>\n
Eighty-four percent of executives surveyed by PwC report blockchain initiatives underway \u2013 15% fully live. The new research from PwC \u2013 Blockchain is Here. What\u2019s Your Next Move? \u2013 surveyed 600 executives in 15 countries and territories, on their development of blockchain and views on its potential. As blockchain rewires business and commerce, the research […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[5602,2089],"class_list":["post-33078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-blockchain","tag-pwc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}