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Risk Management in the Age of Digital Disruption

January 17, 2017 in /by

Current risk management practices, which deal mostly with the risk of reoccurring historical events, cannot help business, government or economic leaders deal with the uncertainty and rate of change driven by the Fourth Industrial Revolution. As new innovations threaten to disrupt, business leaders lack the means to measure the risks and rewards associated with the adoption of new technologies and business models. Established companies are faltering as leaner and more agile start-ups bring to market the new products and services that customers of the on-demand or sharing economy desire—with better quality, faster speeds and/or lower costs than established companies can match.

How Dynamic Complexity Disrupts Business Operations

November 15, 2016 in /by

Successful risk determination and mitigation is dependent on how well we understand and account for dynamic complexity, its evolution, and the amount of time before the system will hit the singularity (singularities) through the intensification of stress on the dependencies and intertwined structures forming the system. In this blog post, we provide an example of a client case where dynamic complexity played a key role in terms of resource consumption, time to deliver and volume to deliver. It illustrates how the predictive emulation provided by X-Act OBC Platform can be used to isolate the evolving impact of dynamic complexity and calculate risk as an impact on system performance, cost, scalability and dependability.

Solving Blockchain Distributed Transaction Challenges

October 16, 2016 in , /by

We have developed an algorithm that aggregates multiple domain specific blockchains to form a purpose-oriented blockchain. Tested under a variety of cases to prove its applicability, the patented algorithm complements the blockchain protocol to provide a solution for multi-party transaction processes using multiple shared blockchains.

Modeling Economic Dynamics

September 20, 2016 in , /by

Traditional financial risk management methods were formulated in an analogy with the early foundational principles of thermodynamics. However, traditional economic models are incomplete models of reality because economic systems are not inclined to attain equilibrium states unless we are talking about very short windows of time (similar to meteorological or most nuclear or gravitational systems).

Blockchain: Navigating the Disruption

September 12, 2016 in , /by

After years of theoretical debates and abstract use cases, it is no longer a question of if blockchain will cause market disruption, but rather when and how widely the impact will be felt. Now is the time to remove any outstanding doubts about blockchain applicability and strategically manage the business and operational risks that inevitably come with innovation.

Causal Deconstruction Method

August 21, 2016 in /by

Our causal deconstruction method is a seven-stage scientific methodology that is used to understand the constituent components of a system and any dependencies by establishing the base dynamics, deconstructing complexity, constructing an emulator, predicting singularities, comparing to the actual system, defining improvements and monitoring the execution. Causal deconstruction allows us to uncover results that often defy […]

Understanding a System through Deconstruction

July 12, 2016 in /by

A system is composed of components, objects, or members—each having specific properties that characterize its behavior. All members interact, impact, serve and receive from other members. Depending on the intensity of such relations and their configuration, the overall system will expose behavior patterns and characteristics.