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Metrology is the backbone of semiconductor manufacturing, ensuring accurate measurements to monitor, predict, and control quality. Yet,...

By: Jeff Gaus Some of the more divisive rhetoric over the last six or so presidential election cycles has been the topic of immigration....

By: Jeff Gaus This week, I was in Las Vegas for the Government Business Executives Forum (GBEF) , a premier gathering of senior leaders...

By Jeff Gaus The last post discussed trade, but what it did not discuss is the terms under which trade takes place. The recent US...

By: Jeff Gaus This is the first in a 4-part Series: Trade I make it my business to study stressors and accelerators of supply chain...

By: Christine Michienzi On September 7, 2022, the Department of Defense (DoD) halted deliveries of the Lockheed Martin produced F-35...

By: Jeff Gaus "In homage to The Kinks’ Celluloid Heroes , I acknowledge and honor the “Silicon Heroes” I met earlier this week at the...

By David Rampton On January 5, 2024, a Boeing's 737 MAX 9 aircraft door plug on an Alaska Airlines flight detached mid-air, leading to a...

By: Amy McDougall When it comes to knee replacement surgery, ensuring the highest quality of materials used in the implant is paramount....

By: Jeff Gaus At Provenance Chain Network (PCN), we know that most people leave their jobs due to a toxic company culture —around 3 out...

By: Charlie McGillis The “ State of the Space Industrial Base 2023 ” report led by Maj Gen (Ret) John Olsen recommended establishing...

We at the Provenance Chain™ Network are doing the same thing: We’re Graduating! (Didn’t I just write this last week?) Oh yeah….

I conduct informal polls when speaking publicly. I ask a series of simple questions: “How many of you trust your government? The media?...

It’s June, which means many of our family and friends and their children are completing school programs and are advancing to the next level,

In " Why Nations Fail , " the concept of creative destruction and innovation plays a central role in the authors' argument about the...

2020 taught us all that supply chains matter. Obvious. How to manage them with the right level of transparency - Not so obvious. Even...

In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, technology standards are critical drivers of success and innovation. Business leaders...

In the intricate web of global supply chains, the establishment and sustenance of commercial trust rests firmly upon four pivotal...

There are several reasons enterprises adopt this technology. Beyond the obvious one, removing the need for a middleman, it also creates...

Several months ago, I went down the AI/GPT/LLM (Large Language Models) rabbit hole. My interests are three-fold: To develop personal...

By Jeff Gaus This post is inspired by Thomas Friedman’s most recent piece in the New York Times Opinion | America, China and a Crisis of...

A leading Tier 1 aerospace contractor, speaking at the recent PNAA Advanced Aerospace Conference , stated: “… suppliers need to digitize...

As NFTs (non-fungible tokens) become more of a buzzword, we’d like to take an opportunity to explain more about these universal data...

...how will you respond? Recently, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) – whose mission it is to prevent fraudulent, deceptive, and unfair...

The reason we - collectively - are at peak productivity in the 21st century (pandemic aside) is because we have learned - through...

Some of the most widely used innovations today started with a robust architecture or layering of elements that scale. Did you make a...

We’ve entered a new era. Recent disruptions in our supply chains have illuminated the heightened need for visibility and transparency....

Some of you likely remember when you generated a purchase order with an actual piece of paper, a 3-part duplicate - file one in a 3 ring...

The verdict: “I’m impressed as hell” Two weeks ago we launched our network and began processing transactions for our first customers....

With that, we’re launched. Thursday last week, the team “threw the switch” and activated the Provenance Chain Network® (PCN) and we...

We are looking for exceptional talent with a passion for making the world a more transparent place. Our Mission: To reveal the lifecycle...

Warren Buffet’s right-hand man, Charlie Munger, famously once said, “Show me the incentive, and I’ll show you the outcome.” When it comes...

During our upbringing, we all heard the phrase, “Don’t talk to strangers.” While this notion may fall under the umbrella of common sense,...

Our CEO, Jeff Gaus is a husband, a father of two adult sons, and a Godfather to his nephew and cousin. His passions are: his family,...

It has been six weeks since the Perseverance Rover completed its 34-million-mile journey and landed on Mars. In a few days, Perseverance...

Effective March 15, 2021, Ketan Sampat, Co-Founder and Chief Technology & Product Officer of the Provenance Chain™ Network (PCN) began...

In one of my all-time favorite videos , Nike’s co-Founder Phil Knight provides the voice over to questions that plague the footwear and...

American folklore holds that Senator Everett Dirksen once quipped: “A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real...

What links climate change, pollution, child and forced labor, and deforestation? The answer is very simple: Us. The choices we make as...

“Trust, but verify.” This Russian proverb was made famous during the 1980s when Ronald Reagan used it to describe the process of...

In 2020, COVID sent us to our rooms to think about what we’d done. Flights were grounded, factories went silent, and human activity...

Exhibit A in “Timing is Everything” is: Telemedicine. I first gained experience with Telemedicine as a North American Healthcare sector...

A paradox is when something runs contrary to one’s expectation. Familiar examples include M.C. Escher’s perspective-based drawings of...

In 2020 there were lots of scary things going on in the world, and perhaps more “transparency” is already on your radar screen as one of...

Join Steve Brown, Futurist and Co-Founding member of the Provenance Chain™ Network, as he explores the future of consumer shopping with...

While I have in the past been accused of being a compulsive optimist, it is a pejorative I gladly embrace. In my role, one needs to be...