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Folkestone’s Latest Blog – Digital Connectivity – 2015 A Watershed Year But It Is Only The Beginning
- Published February 02, 2016 10:07AM UTC
- Publisher Wholesale Investor
- Categories Company Updates
1st February 2016
Digital Connectivity – 2015 A Watershed Year But It Is Only The Beginning
2015 was a watershed year for digital connectivity.
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The Digital Transformation of Industries
The conversation about digital technology has shifted over the past five years. No longer seen as the exclusive domain of tech companies or a driver of marginal efficiency gains, digital technology is now considered a powerful enabler of fundamental innovation and industry disruption across the value chain. What big bets are companies making in the digital transformation of their business models and organization structures?
The More Things Change – Value Creation, Value Capture, and the Internet of Things
Most “things,” from alarm clocks to Zambonis, the human body included, have long operated largely “dark,” with their location, position, and functional state unknown or even unknowable. No longer, thanks to the Internet of Things (IoT), a suite of technologies and associated business processes that allow us to track and count, observe and identify, evaluate and act in circumstances heretofore effectively invisible and beyond reach.
The Internet of Things: Mapping the Value Beyond the Hype
The Internet of Things—digitizing the physical world—has received enormous attention. In this research, the McKinsey Global Institute set out to look beyond the hype to understand exactly how IoT technology can create real economic value. McKinsey’s central finding is that the hype may actually understate the full potential of the Internet of Things—but that capturing the maximum benefits will require an understanding of where real value can be created and successfully addressing a set of systems issues, including interoperability.
Company Updates
BlackRock has named the next Economy. What this latest paper means for Private Market Investors.
BlackRock has put a name on something the smart money has been circling for two years. Its digital assets research team calls it the machine-native economy. The thesis fits in one line. AI is machine-native intelligence. Digital assets are machine-native money. Both are built on the same architecture, and they are converging into a single […]
Where’s the beef? Blackstone just answered the AI question.
In 1984, a fast food ad asked a question that became a catchphrase. Where’s the beef? Jon Gray, President of Blackstone, used that line this month in front of global LPs. It is the question every capital allocator is asking about AI. Trillions of dollars are going into chips, data centres and power. That is […]
The Best of Both Worlds: How Omnique Fund is Rewiring Real World Assets via Tokenisation
For decades, the playbook for Australia’s wholesale investors has remained relatively unchanged: pick between the slow-moving, illiquid reliability of tangible assets like property and gold, or chase the frictionless, high-velocity liquidity of public equity and digital markets. But as macroeconomic volatility spikes and a structural housing deficit reshapes private debt demand, sophisticated investors are demanding […]
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