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Develop a Use Case for Smart Contracts

Use smart contracts to simplify and automate business processes, leading to exceptional customer experiences and new business models.

  • Organizations today continue to use traditional and often archaic methods of manual processing with physical paper documents.
  • These error-prone methods introduce cumbersome administrative work, causing businesses to struggle with payments and contract disputes.
  • The increasing scale and complexity of business processes has led to many third parties, middlemen, and paper hand-offs.
  • Companies remain bogged down by expensive and inefficient processes while losing sight of their ultimate stakeholder: the customer. A failure to focus on the customer is a failure to do business.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

  • Simplify, automate, secure. Smart contracts enable businesses to simplify, automate, and secure traditionally complex transactions.
  • Focus on the customer. Smart contracts provide a frictionless experience for customers by removing unnecessary middlemen and increasing the speed of transactions.
  • New business models. Smart contracts enable the redesign of your organization and business-to-business relationships and transactions.

Impact and Result

  • Simplify and optimize your business processes by using Info-Tech’s methodology to select processes with inefficient transactions, unnecessary middlemen, and excessive manual paperwork.
  • Use Info-Tech’s template to generate a smart contract use case customized for your business.
  • Customize Info-Tech’s stakeholder presentation template to articulate the goals and benefits of the project and get buy-in from business executives.

Develop a Use Case for Smart Contracts Research & Tools

Start here – read the Executive Brief

Read our concise Executive Brief to find out why you should leverage smart contracts in your business, review Info-Tech’s methodology, and understand the four ways we can support you in completing this project.

1. Understand smart contracts

Understand the fundamental concepts of smart contract technology and get buy-in from stakeholders.

2. Develop a smart contract use case

Select a business process, create a smart contract logic diagram, and complete a smart contract use-case deliverable.

About Info-Tech

Info-Tech Research Group is the world’s fastest-growing information technology research and advisory company, proudly serving over 30,000 IT professionals.

We produce unbiased and highly relevant research to help CIOs and IT leaders make strategic, timely, and well-informed decisions. We partner closely with IT teams to provide everything they need, from actionable tools to analyst guidance, ensuring they deliver measurable results for their organizations.

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A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.

Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.

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Get the help you need in this 2-phase advisory process. You'll receive 5 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.

Guided Implementation 1: Understand smart contracts
  • Call 1: Walk through smart contract concepts.
  • Call 2: Assist in building the executive buy-in presentation.

Guided Implementation 2: Develop a smart contract
  • Call 1: Explore business processes suitable for smart contracts.
  • Call 2: Walk through the steps in the identification and documentation of transactions in your selected business process.
  • Call 3: Complete your smart contract use-case deliverable.

Author

Nhat Tran

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