Blockchain Revolution

INSEAD via Coursera Specialization

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8 weeks, 10 hours a week
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Blockchain is poised to transform every industry and managerial function—redefining the ways we transact online, share ideas, and manage workflows. It’s a new technology that every business professional needs to understand. This four-course Specialization introduces you to the world of blockchain technology—explaining what blockchain is, how it works, and why it’s revolutionary. You will learn about various categories of cryptoassets, and the ways they can be transacted on a blockchain. You will learn how blockchain is disrupting business models and financial services, offering organizations new choices in how they create and manage value. The Specialization is taught by Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott, globally-recognized authorities on innovation and technology and authors of the best-selling book Blockchain Revolution. It also includes various industry experts and developers from the Ethereum Foundation, Grid Singularity, Keyless Technologies, and ResonanceX who will share their experiences within the blockchain ecosystem. Additionally, you will gain access to ground-breaking research from the Blockchain Research Institute as well as the Blockchain Case Commons—a crowdsourced collection of blockchain applications and use-cases spanning multiple industries. Upon completion of this Specialization, you will produce a Blockchain Opportunity Analysis, in which you identify and evaluate a promising application of blockchain technology in your own industry.

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Course 1: Introduction to Blockchain Technologies
Course 2: Transacting on the Blockchain
Course 3: Blockchain and Business
Course 4: Blockchain Opportunity Analysis

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How can blockchain create real value for your organization or industry? In this capstone course, you'll put your blockchain knowledge into practice by conducting a Blockchain Opportunity Analysis for a real-world business or industry challenge. You'll identify a promising opportunity, assess whether blockchain is the right technology for the problem, research existing solutions and competitors, and develop a practical business model and implementation strategy. Along the way, you'll learn from practitioners who have built and scaled blockchain ventures and explore real-world blockchain applications through a crowdsourced library of industry use cases. By the end of the course, you'll have developed a practical blockchain opportunity and execution plan, along with a polished slide deck or video pitch that you can use to communicate your idea to colleagues, clients, investors, or other decision-makers. You'll leave with a structured approach for evaluating blockchain opportunities in the rapidly evolving world of blockchain, digital assets, and tokenization.
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Blockchain will bring about profound changes to business, and even to the nature of business itself. This technology will disrupt how enterprises are funded and managed, how they create value, and even how they perform basic functions like marketing and accounting. In this course you will learn how blockchain technology will penetrate into the structures of organizations. You will explore how blockchain will transform the roles of the C-Suite, and how a blockchain can be used to manage and protect intellectual property. You will be able to identify the different layers of the blockchain technology stack, and explain how these affect the governance of blockchain systems. As well, you will be able to identify seven qualities that a region in the world needs in order to attract technology startups and to build a vibrant blockchain ecosystem.
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Today, large intermediaries establish trust in our economy and control the movement, storage, and allocation of money and assets. The status quo, however, is rife with inefficiencies. In this course, we’ll address the many challenges of the status quo and discuss how cryptoassets, smart contracts, new identity systems, and new financial business models can help overcome them. You’ll learn how blockchain technology empowers individuals, entrepreneurs, and businesses with the tools they need to help level the playing field and to participate in the value they create. By the end of this course, you’ll learn how and why transacting on the blockchain can help us bring about a future that is faster, fairer, and more distributed than the world we inhabit today.
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Blockchain technology is changing how businesses, financial institutions, governments, and individuals exchange value and information online. But what exactly is a blockchain, and how does it work? This course provides a clear introduction to blockchain technology and the ideas behind it. You'll learn how blockchains create trust without relying on a central authority, how decentralized networks work, and the key design principles that shape blockchain systems. You'll explore cryptocurrencies, digital assets, smart contracts, and the broader blockchain ecosystem, while examining where the technology has delivered real-world value and where significant challenges remain. No coding or finance background is required. By the end of the course, you'll have a practical foundation in blockchain technology and be able to explain how it works, why it matters, and where it may be headed next.