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Ron McFarland has been working in Japan for over 40 years, and he's spent more than 30 of them in international sales, sales management training, and expanding sales worldwide. He's worked in or been to more than 80 countries. Over the most recent 17 years, Ron had established distributors in the United States and throughout Europe for a Tokyo-headquartered, Japanese hardware cutting tool manufacturer. More recently, he's begun giving seminars in English and Japanese to people interested in his overseas travels and expanding business overseas. You can find him on LinkedIn.
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Fred, thank you for your comments. Yes, you are right about the difficulty in implementing this in companies. It might be an idea to start with a very small pilot project with supportive members. Have a look at my article on closed-minded people. There is a strategy in it you can apply to move companies to change. I have been successful with that process.
Mike, very good article. You are very right that for permissioned blockchain to be successful you have to do your homework up front regarding trust. I have written supplier and distribute ageements in my global activities, and the details of potential changes in the parties must be carefully considered.
On a smaller note, I think one word in the article might be wrong (my be wrong myself though). Notice the sentence "In these cases, you know the people or entities who are going to be participating—or, if you don't know now, you'll want to check on them and their identity before they join your blockchain (or distributed ledger)." I think you meant "know" and not "now".
I have written an article on Blockchain too and am looking for typos all the time.