The hype is over. As I predicted, companies, startups and non-profits have come to market with all kinds of great, sometimes groundbreaking, products and services. Even though, according to McKinsey (pdf), most use cases are not published by companies due to competitive sensitivity, according to Deloitte (pdf), 42% of companies now have at least one blockchain pilot running. According to Gartner, 30% of those pilots will be launched next year. In particular, the very brazil telegram data 30 million outdated laws and regulations and the knowledge of the technology itself at many organizations currently provide the biggest brake on its rapid development and rollout.
Trend 1. Strong supply chains
Trend 2. The government crypto
Trend 3. The fintechization of our society
Trend 4. Zero knowledge required
Trend 1. Strong supply chains
In a short time, we have seen how incredibly vulnerable, but also how incredibly important strong supply chains are. Disruptions are still the order of the day, from building materials from Poland to lenses from Italy and electronic equipment from China. More and more governments (such as the Dutch and American ) are therefore busy with 'reshoring', bringing their production back to their own country or closer to home. Companies such as Apple , Adidas , Boeing , Zara and Philips are also doing this. A crazy operation, in which companies jointly invest 1000 billion euros .
Toyota set the standard years ago with the 'Just In Time' principle. All supply chains are so perfectly aligned that there is virtually no stock. As a result, it takes Zara only 3 weeks to get a piece of clothing from the drawing board to the store. And Volkswagen has now built up a chain with almost 1 million suppliers. Due to corona, that entire process almost came to a standstill worldwide and more than 75% of companies had problems with their own production. Volkswagen even temporarily stopped its production.
