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Applicability of blockchain is massive in business contexts, but the value comes through addressing the two core elements—technology and management of the blockchain. In this chapter, readers will get to know the impeccable capability of the blockchain to reduce messiness—transaction and agency costs—and to manage applications portfolios.
Ideally, the two structures—hierarchy, and relationship structure wrap around each other to ensure responsibility, to keep information flow and the creation of power.
―Pearl Zhu, Digital Maturity: Take a Journey of a Thousand Miles from Functioning to Delight
I am wary of the whole dreary deadening structured mess that we have built into such a glittering top-heavy structure that there is nothing left to see but the glitter, and the brute routines of maintaining it.
―John D. MacDonald, The Deep Blue Good-By
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Upadhyay, N. (2019). Messy. In: UnBlock the Blockchain. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0177-7_3
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