As the world continues to "transform" and be more digitally driven, then the inevitable also has to happen, systems that support our day to day processes start to become outdated, inefficient and ineffective for a world that needs to move more quickly and in different ways.

One such innovation that is gathering momentum is the use of blockchain and it is starting to have a major disruptive impact on the way many traditional transactions are done.

If you are like me and interested in the technology and would like to know more, then maybe this week's podcast episode is for you as I'm joined by Ian Moore to provide a beginners guide to blockchain, a blockchain 101 no less.

During our conversation, he introduces us to the importance of ledgers, how the four key blockchain tenants of consensus, provenance, immutability and finality are allowing blockchain transactions to be quick, secure and trusted.

We also discuss how the speed of digital transformation is demanding improvement in speed and efficiency and how transactions that used to take weeks are no longer acceptable as blockchain takes those long slow processes and does them almost instantly.

Ian also shares some great use cases, as well as outlining the basic requirements needed for a blockchain, we wrap up by discussing possible futures uses for this technology approach and how blockchain will do for transactions what the Internet has done for communications.

Ian provides a great introduction to blockchain and you can follow him on twitter @Ian_DMoore.

I hope you enjoyed the show.

Full show notes are here - http://wp.me/p4IvtA-1ty