in private consortiums, instead of having data locked up in silos across organisations, everyone can have a copy of the data and build their own view on top of it.

you don't have to trust any party as to the authenticity of the data as you can see every change that has been made.

I wrote about the supply chain use case here https://medium.com/twohands/lobsters-on-the-blockchain-df599...

and how I approach looking at distributed ledger tech here https://medium.com/@ben_longstaff/my-framework-for-how-to-lo...

:)