In late Spring 2018, 4,407 people (40 percent being C-Suite or Executive level) tuned in for a webcast, “The internet of value: What CFOs need to know about blockchain,” during which the audience was polled about the technology.

1. The internet of value
What CFOs need to know about blockchain
In late Spring 2018, 4,407 people (40 percent being C-Suite or Executive level) tuned in for a Dbriefs webcast,
“The internet of value: What CFOs need to know about blockchain,” during which the audience was polled about
the technology. Here are the highlights.
Which finance use-case do you find
most compelling for your organization?
Which benefit of blockchain do you
find most attractive?
When it comes to perceived
importance of blockchain to
their organization:
indicated they see blockchain as
crucial to their success or, if not
crucial, as helping them stay
current with latest technology trends
On the topic of blockchain consortia and who
they'd be most willing to collaborate with:
Improved operational
efficiencies
Decreased
fraud risk
Real-time
insights
21%
Procure-to-pay/
Order-to-cash
Treasury and
financing
25%
Supply chain and
warranty management
12%28%44% 13%
say they still need to learn more
before making that decision
22% 16%
12%
3%
19%
n=3,820 n=3,734
What blockchain use cases might be applicable to your finance organization
and how do you evaluate if the technology is the right solution? (see next page)
37.2%
37.7%
n=3,745 n=2,877
indicated horizontal
competitors
indicated customers
indicated joint
ventures and/or
partners
indicated all of
the above
indicated
suppliers

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How do you start to evaluate if blockchain is the right solution for a
particular use-case?
Is it economically viable as a
blockchain solution?
Desirability
ViabilityFeasibility
Shared data
Multiple writers
Low trust
Auditability
Disintermediation
Transaction interaction
• Improve business process and
participant integration
• Optimize working capital and
improve operational efficiencies
• Reduce the complexity for
sourcing key data
• Increase connectivity of
stakeholder groups
• Access to required data
from sources
• Secure and stable dev and
test environments
• Increase data consistency,
transparency and availability
• Enhance auditability of
end-to-end process
Reasoning/key points
Reasoning/key points
Reasoning/key points
What’s feasible from a technology
or organizational perspective?
What’s desirable from a business perspective?
Use-cases applicable to finance
Widespread impacts as processes transform from linear silos to integrated networks
BLOCKCHAIN
Procure-to-pay
• Streamline purchase order,
tracking and settlement
Order-to-cash
• Streamline sales agreement,
tracking and settlement
Supply chain management
• Increase end-to-end visibility
between all participants
Treasury and financing
• Improve transparency and reduce
bank fees and financing costs
Intercompany sales
• Single source of truth
between legal entities
• Automate settlement
Cross-border payments
• Near real time settlement
• Reduced transaction cost
• Improved data sharing
Loyalty management
• Improve loyalty point tracking
and participation
Warranty management
• Improve customer warranty
behavior visibility and tracking
• Enable advanced liability estimates