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Nov 41 min read

Silicon Heroes

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

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Nov 13 min read

Why Transparency Matters for Resiliency in Aerospace & Defense Supply Chains

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...

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Oct 212 min read

You Kneed to Know…

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

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Oct 102 min read

Culture Worth Striving For

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...

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Sep 253 min read

Lives Depend on a Resilient and Trusted Supply Chain

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

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Jun 202 min read

We're Having a (Graduation) Party, Part 2

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

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Jun 172 min read

(Re)-Establishing Trust

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

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Jun 142 min read

We’re Having a (Graduation) Party, Part 1

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,

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Nov 15, 20232 min read

Inclusion, Creative Destruction, and Innovation

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

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Nov 2, 20233 min read

Transparency with Trust: Protecting the Answers to the 4Ps of Commercial Trust

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

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Oct 8, 20232 min read

Tech Standards: The Cornerstone of Commercial Success

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

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Oct 5, 20232 min read

The 4Ps of Commercial Trust

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

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Jun 9, 20233 min read

3 Principles for Enterprise Blockchain Success

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

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May 24, 20232 min read

Down the AI Rabbit Hole

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

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Apr 17, 20232 min read

What are we fighting for? You might be surprised by the answer.

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...

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Feb 17, 20233 min read

What’s Stopping Us From Digitizing Our Supply Chains?

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

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Dec 22, 20213 min read

Commercial Trust™ Architecture (CTA) - Universal Data Containers

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

Dec 2, 20211 min read

When the FTC Comes Knocking...

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

Nov 19, 20212 min read

Commercial Trust Architecture (CTA) - Standards

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

Nov 3, 20213 min read

Commercial Trust Architecture (CTA) – Technology

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

Oct 21, 20212 min read

How a System of Evidence Substantiates the Supply Chain.

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

Oct 19, 20212 min read

The 4th Software Wave is Not on Backorder

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...

Jul 16, 20212 min read

The Verdict

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

Jul 6, 20212 min read

We are Launched

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

May 20, 20211 min read

Join our Team!

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

Apr 28, 20213 min read

WIIFM: Transparency and Positive Change Require Motivation

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...

Apr 20, 20212 min read

Don't Talk to Strangers...or Buy from them Online

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

Apr 14, 20212 min read

Getting to Know the PCN Team: Jeff Gaus

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,...

Apr 6, 20213 min read

Supply Chain Resiliency & the Red Planet

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

Mar 26, 20211 min read

Ketan Sampat Appointed to Port of Portland Commission

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

Mar 24, 20212 min read

Embrace Technology

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...

Mar 12, 20212 min read

A Billion Here, a Billion There...

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

Mar 9, 20213 min read

Consumers are the Whole Problem; And it's Not Their Fault

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

Feb 16, 20212 min read

Trust, but Verify.

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

Feb 9, 20213 min read

Shopping in 2025: Personalized, Intelligent, and Supported

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

Feb 2, 20212 min read

With Technology Adoption - Timing is Everything

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

Jan 27, 20215 min read

The Provenance Paradox

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

Jan 21, 20213 min read

Are you Scared of Transparency? The Premise and the Promise.

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...

Jan 12, 20211 min read

Sustainable, Ethical Supply Chains: An interview with Steve Brown

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

Jan 5, 20212 min read

Optimism is Warranted

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...

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