The latest flavor of blockchain technology is vanilla, and the stakes are high: Vanilla is the world’s second most expensive spice — with a price higher than that of silver.
The surprise arrest of Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies Co., has thrust the company into a political firestorm and deepened a core threat.
U.S. firms operating in Asia are adapting to global trade uncertainty with a range of survival tactics, from reviewing how goods are classified to tweaking their supply chains.
Nearly 100 percent of executives agree that blockchain will upend traditional supply-chain management, but fewer than half are equipped with a strategy.
Even the most enthusiastic supporter of blockchain technology agrees that it needs time to reach its full potential as a system of record for global business transactions.