Blockchain Strategy for Business Leaders Curriculum
This unique three-day executive education program crosses the intersection of technology, business strategy and innovation. The program will empower you to not only survive the threats that constantly emerge in the blockchain ecosystem but also become a disruptor yourself. There’s no other in-person blockchain strategy learning opportunity like this in the United States!
MODULE 1: Market Trends & Dynamics
Explore the trends, and emerging market segments in the Blockchain and crypto assets industry. Discover the disruption and opportunity revealed by this foundational technology evolution. Develop your understanding of frameworks to analyze emerging market developments.
MODULE 2: Distributed Ledger Technologies – Blockchain
Understand the mechanisms that create a blockchain. Explore its evolution from history of digital cash to next generation of Distributed Ledger Technologies.
MODULE 3: Disruption Surviving vs Creating
Understand the nature of technology led disruption. Learn models for innovation. Apply these models to predict disruption by the evolution of blockchain ecosystem. Discover ways blockchain can help you survive or create disruption. Define your blockchain strategy – is it an opportunity, threat or a risk for you?
MODULE 4: Cryptography
Ground yourself in the fundamentals of cryptography that make distributed ledger technologies powerful. Learn applications of cryptography in business applications.
MODULE 5: Blockchain Architecture
Understand blockchain solution design factors. Learn how consensus mechanisms are transforming business processes. Develop skill on how to make design choices critically determined by your use case.
MODULE 6: Smart Contracts
Understand what smart contracts are. Discover how smart contracts and decentralized applications are enabling a new technology stack. Analyze the architecture of leading smart contact platforms.
MODULE 7: Two Sides of A Coin: Identity and Privacy
Grasp the changing nature of digital identity. Explore how blockchain is driving digital identity technology. Learn how future business applications will utilize this new infrastructure. Understand its challenges and enablers – privacy and shifting global regulatory framework.
MODULE 8: Blockchain in the Enterprise
Explore how incumbent corporations can use blockchain
as tactically as technology stack replacement or
strategically as driver of disruptive new business
models. Understand this shift in business processes.
Learn about current uses cases in – financial services,
payments, insurance, gaming, media, supply chain,
digital advertising, storage, and several industry verticals.
Explore the architecture of enterprise blockchain platforms
like Hyperledger and Dragonchain.
MODULE 9: Tokenization
Learn basics of digital assets and token economics. Grasp
incentive models and token economics. Apply frameworks
to create token design.
MODULE 10: Develop Ecosystem or Die
Go beyond technology product development and
understand network effects and ecosystem adoption.
Learn how to effectively leverage ecosystem for your
growth. Understand the adoption risks, challenges and
enablers.
MODULE 11: Evaluate Blockchain Companies
Learn to evaluate blockchain companies using Intuit Factory’s proprietary Diagnostic Assessment Model©. Exposure to this framework will help you investigate your project along with your competition. Analyze critical growth factors for creating successful blockchain-based businesses. Create an investment thesis.
MODULE 12: Business Model Design
Investigate key strategic issues. Learn how to design
business models leveraging blockchain & adjacent
technologies. Work with a group to scope, analyze, design
your own blockchain strategy and business model.