Enterprise Blockchain Trends: Digital Identity Management Bashir Agboola, Vice President/Chief Technology Officer, Hospital of Special Surgery Bashir Agboola, Vice President/Chief Technology Officer, Hospital of Special Surgery Despite the much-touted promise of Blockchain/Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) to transform industries and create expanded business value, enterprises still struggle to identify where blockchain offers better value than existing technologies, and they lack the expertise to use the technology to address new business challenges. A blockchain is a decentralized time-stamped ledger (or immutable record) of transactions that are written and cryptographically secured on a peer to peer network. The nascent and immature nature of many components of the DLT, as well as unclear regulatory requirements and technology standards present further challenges that most enterprises are simply, at this stage, unable to overcome. A recent Gartner report estimated that only 10% of enterprises will achieve any radical transformation with the use of blockchain technologies by 2022.