Decentralization Might Be The Next Enterprise Move
- Doug Shannon
- Sep 13
- 2 min read
It has been hinted, suggested, and quietly discussed in certain circles, big shifts could be coming for large enterprises. If that is true, it is worth asking:
What happens to traditional, hierarchical companies that do not diversify, that do not decentralize, that keep the same rigid structures while the environment around them changes at an ever-faster pace?
History suggests that organizations built to move slowly often struggle when the world speeds up. The market does not pause for the familiar.
A potential answer could be diversified carve-outs, smaller, focused business units that still sit under the corporate umbrella, yet operate with startup-level agility. These units can:
▫️ Own their P&L and make rapid decisions.
▫️ Focus on a specific market or capability without being tangled in the full corporate classic slowdowns.
▫️ Feed back into the parent company’s strength while moving at their own speed.
But autonomy without clarity is a recipe for chaos.
That is where advanced ERP systems come in, not just as finance tools, but as the connective tissue that:
▫️ Tracks every action, transaction, and attribution across units in real time.
▫️ Understands the ontology, what we call things, and taxonomy, how they connect.
▫️ Logs the value at a transactional level, whether that is in cryptocurrency, tokenized value, or even a simple numerical ledger that can be reconciled later.
The currency is not the point. The point is traceability, attribution, and proof of where value was created, and by whom.
If the world truly is shifting toward decentralized enterprise models, the winners will be the ones who combine agility with visibility. Structure still matters, only now, it has to be designed for speed.
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