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Table 1 Taxonomy of the maturity assessment

From: A maturity model for blockchain adoption

 

1. Initial

2. Repeatable

3. Defined

4. Managed

5. Optimized

Technology

• Ad hoc, chaotic

• Emerging

• Lack of understanding

• Methodology establishment

• Controlled and coordinated

• Reactive

• Standardized and documented

• Proactive

• Quality metrics establishment

• Consolidated and reliable

• Continuous improvement

• Share of knowledge and information

Market

• Focus on function

• High cost

• Focus on reliability

• Transactional customers

• Broad no-target promotion

• Focus on assured delivery of services

• Prices settle down

• Requirements are measured

• Standard services

• Price with incentives and outcome metrics

• Customers are grouped with profiles

• Promotion is targeted

• Empathy in dealing with emerging business needs

• Create the product special influents in industry.

Regulation

• Less supervision

• Competition is forbidden

• Rules have been borrowed from related domains

• Regulation rules and laws are defined

• Measurements on regulation is set up

• Competition is encouraged under supervision

• Free competition

• Market based on well-established legal system