48 Quotes by Tom Golway

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts" For #Blockchain, the sum of the parts is equal to or greater than the whole for many use cases. Immediate ROI could come from the leveraging the parts instead of the whole.

Attempting to manage ethics in the hyperconnected world through legislation only creates an environment that encourages the rationalization of the negative impact of the behavior and limits it to selective areas where there is no personal connection.

Blockchain by itself isn't transformational, however it is foundational. As a foundational innovation, Blockchain's value can only be fully realized when the business process is transformed to take advantage of its capabilities, leading to ROI for existing business models and the ability to create value through new ones.

Without transforming the business process, Blockchain only offers the potential of incremental value in reducing TCO.

There is no such thing as an "out of the blue" invention. All new forms of innovation are derived from knowledge gain through previous innovation and the evolving needs of business and society.In 2030 we will have technologies and solutions that most of us can not yet see, however in 2030 we will see the clear evolutionary link between innovation in 2020 and solutions in 2030.

It is becoming more difficult to find differentiated information on the Internet. Likewise it is becoming more difficult to contribute meaningful input because of the tendency of people only hearing recognizable voices.As this plays out, we will see more fracturing of society with people only hearing siloed information without an intelligent contrary view to provide balance.

Innovation has always been a catalyst of economic creative destruction, triggering the extinction of certain types of jobs while fostering the genesis of new types of jobs with new types of skills.

Winston Churchill once said "We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.". In a broader context, we have shaped our technology to achieve greater productivity and responsiveness and now our technology is shaping our behavior where we are always "on-demand". This has led to a culture where technology plays a greater role in defining who we are.Take a day off...

Accelerating progress requires building on foundational innovations, or as Bernard of Chartres stated - “standing on the shoulders of giants”. In the fractured society we live in, the lack of civil discourse makes it difficult to find a stable place where “we are carried aloft and elevated by the magnitude of the giants”. - Tom Golway