ABSTRACT
Organisations will employ robots and connected devices that will act autonomously and automatically, taking into consideration the complete context of the organisation, based on immutable, high-quality data. Big data analytics can provide insights into the soaring flows of data that generate more economic value than the global goods trade to help organisations understand the context in which they operate. In a world where globalisation has gone digital, the convergence of big data analytics, blockchain, and artificial intelligence is becoming the holy grail to ensure trustworthy, effective, and efficient global collaboration among individuals, companies, and connected devices. Blockchain ensures trust and enables peer-to-peer transactions among those globally dispersed partners or things. Blockchain can have a positive contribution to the nature of trust and, in addition, can ensure effective and efficient collaboration through the use of smart contracts. Globalisation has gone digital and, as such, within this global collaboration, technology is increasingly becoming important.
