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Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
In just the last few years, traditional collaboration�in a meeting room, a conference call, even a convention center� has been superseded by collaborations on an astronomical scale.
Today, encyclopedias, jetliners, operating systems, mutual funds, and many other items are being created by teams numbering in the thousands or even millions. While some leaders fear the hea
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Published
December 12th 2006
by Penguin Group
(first published 2006)
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Found this to be an excellent book, very well written (enjoyed the humor), full of insights to enlighten This Reader on how the world is continually evolving and how companies that "need" to remain in control of their goods/services need to shift their mindset into a more user-friendly, open source, "peer production" collaboration in order to survive. No longer are consumers content to sit on the sidelines while big business--obsessed with control--or the media pitch "instructions" to the masses...more
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Full disclosure: I received this book for free, though it was on my to-read list already.
I first heard about Don Tapscott on CBC's Spark, where Nora Young interviewed him about the Net Generation and "digital natives." They also have an interview about MacroWikinomics, the sequel to Wikinomics, which I will be reading soon.
Tapscott intrigued me. According to Wikipedia, he was born in 1947. Yet he talks about the effects of technology on economy and business as if he were, if not exactly a digita...more
I first heard about Don Tapscott on CBC's Spark, where Nora Young interviewed him about the Net Generation and "digital natives." They also have an interview about MacroWikinomics, the sequel to Wikinomics, which I will be reading soon.
Tapscott intrigued me. According to Wikipedia, he was born in 1947. Yet he talks about the effects of technology on economy and business as if he were, if not exactly a digita...more
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Before I begin my thoughts on this book, I should announce that I am openly hostile to several of the notions mentioned in the book, and therefore went into it with a skeptical mind. The book did little to allay my skepticism. 'Wikinomics' is a giddy, fanboy account of the 'new' economy of collaboration generated by 'Web 2.0.' However, rather than provide analysis and examination of the strengths, weaknesses, and variety of this brave new world it is instead 300 pages of anecdotal evidence used...more
This book provided me with exactly what I was looking for--an overview of the concept of wikis and the various ways that individuals and companies might use them. It was good timing for two reasons: (1) working on ed publishing academy courses and considering alternative delivery methods and (2) starting work on the new sociology project that would involve collaboration and communication with the author, client, and internal staff on a wiki.
I particularly enjoyed chapter 3: The Peer Pioneers, w...more
I particularly enjoyed chapter 3: The Peer Pioneers, w...more
This book is a little bit older than some of the others I have read but it was still interesting. It noted how MySpace had dominated Friendster and speculated about whether Facebook would eventually conquer MySpace. Many good examples of "peer production" and collaboration between companies and between a company (like IBM) and open source development. The authors noted that companies with a strict top-down hierarchial structure are out of place and will struggle in the decentralized marketplace...more
This is another one of those books that criticizes every old business practice of the past and hails everything young and new. To me, it actually reeks of socialism. While I understand author Don Tapscot’s need to prove his point by including numerous positive examples, the critical reader can not take his argument hook-line-and-sinker because he never recognizes the obvious -- that past business practices have enabled what we are seeing today. He also makes the book at least 100 pages longer th...more
This book intends to show how new collaborative technologies are changing the way things work in business. It stresses the point that people and corporations need to adapt or be left behind. It speaks about things like the Open Source movement and how Web 2.0 requires some new perspectives on business and success. It contrasts archaic ways of doing business with the new "open" ways that are powering current developments in the market. It covers many case studies about businesses that have shown...more
Apr 21, 2011
Paul Signorelli
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collaboration,
creativity,
decision-making,
economics,
social-networking,
technology
Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams’ Wikinomics combines three topics—social media tools (wikis), economics, and collaboration—to produce a stimulating exploration of how the changes we are facing can be used to our advantage to foster success through collaboration and sharing rather than hoarding. Their economic model is one of exchanging goods and services without charge—a theme also creatively explored by Chris Anderson in Free: The Future of a Radical Price—in ways that benefit all involved wh...more
There’s been lots of talk about crowd-sourcing in recent years, spurred by both the widespread use of the internet as a collaboration tool as well as specific destination sites like the top-of-mind Wikipedia and others.
In Wikinomics, author and business consultant Don Tapscott (The Digital Economy) and Anthony Williams attempt to illustrate and define examples of companies and projects that have quickly risen or others that have re-energized their operations using the tools of group collaboratio...more
In Wikinomics, author and business consultant Don Tapscott (The Digital Economy) and Anthony Williams attempt to illustrate and define examples of companies and projects that have quickly risen or others that have re-energized their operations using the tools of group collaboratio...more
Assignment Module-6: Book Chat.
Book title: WIKINOMICS. How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
Author: Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams
The book, “WIKINOMICS: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything”, is about how mass collaboration has changed how we do things in both our social life and in the corporate world. The book dwells mostly on how mass collaboration has affected the global economy. As I prepared to read the book, I believed that I knew that discussion of how collaboration impac...more
Book title: WIKINOMICS. How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
Author: Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams
The book, “WIKINOMICS: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything”, is about how mass collaboration has changed how we do things in both our social life and in the corporate world. The book dwells mostly on how mass collaboration has affected the global economy. As I prepared to read the book, I believed that I knew that discussion of how collaboration impac...more
Mungkin sudah tidak asing lagi jika kita mendengar istilah : Linux, Open Source project, Human Genome project, Wikipedia, Facebook, Blog, Instant Messege, Flickr. Apa kesamaan dari nama-nama diatas? Semua produk ataupun aktifitas tersebut merupakan hasil dari kolaborasi banyak pihak ataupun melibatkan banyak pihak dalam penggunaannya.
Di tengah semaraknya teknologi digital muncul suatu kecenderungan ekonomi baru yang bertumpu kepada kekuatan kolaborasi massal. Dengan menggunakan fasilitas interne...more
Di tengah semaraknya teknologi digital muncul suatu kecenderungan ekonomi baru yang bertumpu kepada kekuatan kolaborasi massal. Dengan menggunakan fasilitas interne...more
Пока пробиралась через всю эту книгу, постоянно думала: "И для кого она написана?". ИТ-менеджерам? Вряд ли, все слишком очевидно, автор кропотливо перечисляет и Google, Youtube, MySpace, Wikipedia, рассказывает как будто детям, что такое Линукс, и кто его создал. Простые истины. Похоже, что книга написана для тех, кто очень любит бесконечные кейсы, красивые книги с историями успеха, кто не очень разбирается в современных технологиях, а, главное, не очень им доверяет. Ведь проще делегировать проб...more
Although it is riddled with too much consultant-speak, it gives a good survey of the state of things in the web 2.0 world. As someone whose livelihood is impacted by the creation of "free" editorial content, it provides insight into the direction that the web is trending. The attitude is generally one of "jump on the bandwagon or get out of the way." I gritted my teeth through many of the observations being made.
In addition to covering Wikipedia, Wikinomics devotes a good deal of chapter space t...more
In addition to covering Wikipedia, Wikinomics devotes a good deal of chapter space t...more
“The monolithic, self-contained, inwardly focused corporation is dying" -- is the gist of this enjoyable book. However, it's not just all about the old-guard's eschaton; /Wikinomics/ is primarily about the new type of corporation taking over the world. To wit:
"Regardless of the industry you compete in, or whether your firm is large or small, internal capabilities and a handful of pre-web partnerships are not sufficient to meet the market’s expectations for growth and innovation. Winning companie...more
"Regardless of the industry you compete in, or whether your firm is large or small, internal capabilities and a handful of pre-web partnerships are not sufficient to meet the market’s expectations for growth and innovation. Winning companie...more
Not really much positive to say about this one, other than the authors picked an interesting subject, were able to stick a few interesting examples in, and, umm, guess that's about it on the upside.
Something rubbed me the wrong way that may or may not be a fair criticism, so I'm simply going to stick it off to one side, and not really call it a negative, though I guess I'd like to. Dunno why this bugged me so much, since I'm not typically a spelling or grammar Nazi, but, folks, it is Encyclopædi...more
Something rubbed me the wrong way that may or may not be a fair criticism, so I'm simply going to stick it off to one side, and not really call it a negative, though I guess I'd like to. Dunno why this bugged me so much, since I'm not typically a spelling or grammar Nazi, but, folks, it is Encyclopædi...more
That the nature of work, collaboration, and other economic activities is changing very rapidly these days is indisputable. However, it is not immediately clear to everyone what are the forces that are driving this change and what sorts of effects it may have. This book tries to answer these and many other questions in the realm of how the latest advances in various information tools are enabling the radical shift in collaborative production. It is a very readable book aimed at the general audien...more
This book is interesting in the phenomena that it describes, but it suffers from poor writing and lack of critical thinking.
The poor writing comes in the form of many sweeping generalisations that will change the world and repeat themselves often and the horribly cooked-up terminlogy ("Ideagoras"?).
The poor thinking is the more serious flaw: the authors show themselves lacking a detailed understanding of the topicsthey discuss (no, seriously, I don't think Amazon is Wal-Mart's biggest threat),...more
The poor writing comes in the form of many sweeping generalisations that will change the world and repeat themselves often and the horribly cooked-up terminlogy ("Ideagoras"?).
The poor thinking is the more serious flaw: the authors show themselves lacking a detailed understanding of the topicsthey discuss (no, seriously, I don't think Amazon is Wal-Mart's biggest threat),...more
This book tries to present itself as a souped up Wisdom of Crowds. Unfortunately, the authors misunderstand what "souped up" means, as they apparently just rehashed it and dumped on a hundred or so pages of pure redundancies and less convincing anecdotes. Okay, maybe that's 20% unfair, but there is nothing in here that isn't either covered much better in The Wisdom of Crowds by Surowiecki, Blink by Gladwell, or Free by Anderson. I like these topics in general, so it's pretty hard to bore me, but...more
I found this a rather tiresome "isn't this neat?" booster book on the new open internet. Basically it blended together a bunch of business-speak terms together with a somewhat uncritical and surface glance at the way technology, the economy and society are interacting in the age of new open tools of mass collboration. I was looking for something that could get into the whys and the hows of mass dynamics, and how this changes the economics of information, but the book sort of glanced over it, ins...more
Not the "Blink" or "Freakonomics" I was expecting/hoping for. A few examples did stick in my head, but overall, the only word I can use to describe this book is Thick. Perhaps a good read for a business nerd, but not for fun reading.
There are some useful insights in this book, to be sure. It feels a little dated already, mostly because of its blithe assumption that the company who had a meteoric rise in the early years of this decade would surely be continuing that trajectory for a good long time. Of course, those of us living in 2009 know better. I suppose any business book written just a few years ago is going to need a new edition now.
This book did make me realize one thing: our economy is currently driven not by manufac...more
This book did make me realize one thing: our economy is currently driven not by manufac...more
Oh God, more Americans thinking they've spotted a trend that kind of looks obvious, However, in spotting and labeling it, the author believes that it (and he) is equally important as the trend itself. Meanwhile the trend goes on, undeterred by being burdened with having to explain or analyse itself. Is the world more flat since that American pointed it out? Do Indians and Chinese stop to think about their place in flattening it? This book could easily have been called "Internet Collaboration", b...more
Seems that this book was written for an idea that has since come and become accepted. It was like reading a book about the benefits of using refrigeration. Got it, yea, we all do it now thanks.
Totally my fault for procrastinating and not picking this up until ... how ever many years after it was written. But in this day and age, a book concerning technology and how times are changing needs to be read in a few days after publishing before it becomes old news.
But anyway, if you'd like a dry read...more
Totally my fault for procrastinating and not picking this up until ... how ever many years after it was written. But in this day and age, a book concerning technology and how times are changing needs to be read in a few days after publishing before it becomes old news.
But anyway, if you'd like a dry read...more
Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams explores how some companies in the early 21st century have used mass collaboration (also called peer production) and open-source technology such as wikis to be successful. Bob explained that the word "wiki" means "quick" in Hawaiian. An example of a Canadian gold mining firm that utilized the internet by sharing their mining and geological information resources to enhance their productivity and offering a monetary prize for proposed solutions. The firm receiv...more
Really good book. I like how it detailed how collaboration can have a dramatic impact on a business. I think this is the future. Like when I learned about adaptive schools and companies had to really define what type of company they are, business is evolving and this identity review is truely needed. BMW & Boeing have done this and they have opened their doors to collaboration and have greatly benefited from it. Intergrating suppliers in the design process and increasing outsourcing isn't ju...more
Another must read for the 21st century. I really feel the overwhelming effect the internet is having all around me in my daily life. That being said, I have a desire to 'catch up' and learn all I can about how the web is being used and can be used.
This is another book which was referred to in The World is Flat. I love how this book breaks down marketing and data compilation using the internet into stories about familiar companies and concepts. This book generates inspirational thinking and appl...more
This is another book which was referred to in The World is Flat. I love how this book breaks down marketing and data compilation using the internet into stories about familiar companies and concepts. This book generates inspirational thinking and appl...more
I read Macrowikiconomics first, then scanned this book as a number of reviews on here indicate it is better. I can see why: it is more concisely written and focused. Macrowikiconomics does expand the original thesis, and importantly updates it, but in many ways it just relates extensive support material. I'm sure putting out two books was good for sales, but a revised and updated version, written in the same concise style of the original, would've made for the most relevant and superior long-ter...more
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Today, encyclopedias, jetliners, operating systems, mutual funds, and many other items are being created by teams numbering in the thousands or even millions. While some leaders fear the heaving growth of these massive online communities, Wikinomics proves this fear is folly. Smart firms can harness collective capability and genius to spur innovation, growth, and success.
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This was a decent book but it focused a little too much on scientific research as opposed to more generalized innovation and when it discuss software & technology innovation (which is what I was specifically looking to get out of it) it was a little too tied to the happenings of the 2005ish timeperiod. I would like to see a follow up to see what his take on the things of today might be. On the subject of 2005 innovation, it's actually interesting to hear someone talk about Apple and Steve Jo...more
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Don is one of the world’s leading authorities on innovation, media, and the economic and social impact of technology and advises business and government leaders around the world.
In 2011 Don was named one of the world's most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50. He has authored or co-authored 14 widely read books including the 1992 best seller Paradigm Shift. His 1995 hit Digital Economyc...more
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In 2011 Don was named one of the world's most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50. He has authored or co-authored 14 widely read books including the 1992 best seller Paradigm Shift. His 1995 hit Digital Economyc...more
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