Blockchain

Blockchain Byte 16 – Open Source Software

Open source software and source code explained, and why they underpin blockchain.

Strategy

Strategy Byte 14 – GDP Drivers

How GDP components such as consumption shape a company's decision to expand locally or abroad.

Blockchain

Blockchain Byte 15 – Incentive Types

Blockchain incentives from Satoshi's whitepaper: rewards for mining and transaction fees.

Strategy

Strategy Byte 13 – Country Analysis - GDP

Country analysis through GDP: saving versus spending, the BEA statement, GDP components and the link to strategy.

Blockchain

Blockchain Byte 14 – Incentive mechanism in Blockchains

How incentives drive behaviour in a decentralised network and why nodes keep a blockchain running.

Strategy

Strategy Byte 12 – GDP - Resources & Usage

A country's resources, where they come from and how they are used, through the lens of GDP.

Strategy

Strategy Byte 11 – Lay of the Land

Choosing the right environment: the country as a business, gross domestic product and how resources flow.

Blockchain

Blockchain Byte 13 – Hashing & Public Key Cryptography

Digital signatures, encryption and decryption, checksums and passwords: how hashing and public key cryptography work.

Strategy

Strategy Byte 10 – Explore the Landscape

A framework for external analysis: systems thinking, feedback loops, causality and the PESTLE tool.

Blockchain

Blockchain Byte 12 – Hashing

Cryptography basics: functions, hash functions and hash tables, and why hashing matters for blockchain.

Self-Reflection

Self Reflection Byte – Tim Ferris With James Clear

Key takeaways from Tim Ferriss's conversation with James Clear on habits, personal growth and writing.

Strategy

Strategy Byte 9 – Competitive Landscape

From customer value to the external environment: mapping the competitive landscape by zooming in and out.

Blockchain

Blockchain Byte 11 – Nodes

What nodes do in a blockchain network and the different types of nodes.

Strategy

Strategy Byte 8 – Customer Value

What a customer is worth: customer NPV, churn, revenue models, and competition across the industry life cycle.

Blockchain

Blockchain Byte 10 – Consensus.. Analogy

Blockchain consensus through an analogy: its characteristics, nodes and incentives, and the 51% attack.

Strategy

Strategy Byte 7 – Customers

Why strategy starts with customers: segmentation, the bases for segmenting and direct-to-customer channels.

Blockchain

Blockchain Byte 9 – Consensus

Consensus as agreement between nodes that don't trust each other, and the main types of consensus mechanism.

Blockchain

Blockchain Byte 8 – Web 3.0

What Web 3.0 is, what decentralised means and why decentralisation matters.

Strategy

Strategy Byte 6 – Competitive Advantage to Value

The key questions behind competitive advantage, unique capabilities, and how they translate into value.

Blockchain

Blockchain Byte 7 – Decentralization & Web 3.0

Decentralisation as a pillar of blockchain, and the shift from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0.

Strategy

Strategy Byte 5 – Competitive Advantage

Final thoughts on purpose, then competitive advantage and the trade-off between value and cost.

Blockchain

Blockchain Byte 6 – Distributed Ledger Technology

DLT explained: network effects, consensus, controls and immutability, and incentives.

Strategy

Strategy Byte 4 – Defining Purpose

How a clear, specific purpose guides strategy: reviewing the purpose statement and framing the problem statement.

Blockchain

Blockchain Byte 5 – What is Blockchain?

Blockchain as a shared ledger, explained and compared with existing financial infrastructure.

Strategy

Strategy Byte 3 – It starts with..WHY?

Every strategy starts with purpose: why a company exists and what it does uniquely.