NZBusiness+Management - June 2018

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MANAGEMENT

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to enabling people to sell their houses
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the overwhelming hype surrounding
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are using it in the right way and not
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technology’s capabilities and the ways it is

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the solution.

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technology. We started with the premise

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The paths were incorporated into a

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which guide a business leader once a

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said they were actively considering

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manner.

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listed energy company discussed its plans

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for transferring remittances. Even in the

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that even after the cryptocurrency bubble

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to stay.

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https://www.weforum.org/

whitepapers/blockchain-beyond-the-

hype

INBOX

Busting the

blockchain hype:

How to tell if

distributed ledger

technology is right

for you