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Tapscott and Family Compositions on Jazz.FM91

This Sunday I was a host for Jazz.FM91′s Host Your Own Radio Show, featuring some compositions of mine and my family. Hope you enjoy the show.

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Huffington Post Names Don Tapscott a Twitter Must Follow

Thrilled to be listed on the Huffington Post’s Must Follow List!

Trent University Chancellor Opens Lecture Series

Don Tapscott opened his Trent University chancellor lecture series on Tuesday by acknowledging that looking at how to solve the world’s problems isn’t a modest topic.

“There’s a fine line between vision and delusion,” he said, drawing some laughs from the audience of about 300 people at Market Hall.

EdTech Digest: A Force to Behold

One of the world’s leading experts on technology’s impact on society has a few words to say about the future of education and which generation is the one to watch.

Financial Times: End of the Imperial Corporate Leader

Not much unites Franz-Joseph I of Austria-Hungary and a flock of starlings. But when Don Tapscott, the business thinker, used film of murmurations of flocking starlings to conclude a presentation about managing complexity in Vienna last week, the mesmerising images unfolded alongside the forbidding presence of the old emperor, staring down from a gilt-framed portrait....

Don Tapscott Ranked Top 5 of the World’s Leading Business Thinkers

[image error]We are excited to share that at a black tie ceremony in London last night Thinkers50 listed Don Tapscott as the #4 most important business thinker in the world.

Don was also awarded the prestigious Global Solutions Award recognizing him as conducting the most significant work in the world about how to solve global problems.

Thinkers50, called “The Oscars of Management Thinking” is the definitive list of management thinkers globally and is released every two years.  Don was #9 on the list in 2011.

The Global Solutions Award was given to Don for launching and leading the Global Solution Networks program based at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. The multi-million dollar program is funded primarily by large corporations and is investigating how the digital revolution enables new models of global problem solving, and governance.

You can learn more about the program here.

The Thinkers50 news release states “Americans still feature strongly but the list is increasingly international. Remarkably, the nationality punching well above its demographic weight is Canada, with two thinkers in the top 10. Roger Martin and Don Tapscott.”

Rob Ford and the Emerging Crisis of Legitimacy

The Rob Ford spectacle in Toronto reflects a deeper problem: trust in our democratic institutions is collapsing.

SAP Business Innovation’s Future of Business Series

I participated in SAP Business Innovation’s twelve part series on the Future of Business. You’ll find a series of blog posts and videos to complete the series:

The Digital Consumer and Rise of a New Paradigm for Marketing
4 Ways Your Customers are Shaping The Future of Your Business
The Marketplace for the New Generation
New Expectations from a New Generation
Generation Next Are the Next Generation Employees
3 Ways the Power of the Individual Will Change the Future
The Future of Resource Optimization: Responsibility in Real-time
How Networks Will Solve Resource Scarcity
The Transparency of the Networked Age
Transparency: Burden or Competitive Advantage?
(Back to) the Future of Business Networks
Explore With Us: What’s Next for the Future of Business

Paradigm Shift 20 Year Anniversary

It’s been 20 years since we published Paradigm Shift. In 1991 we were barely at the cusp of the technology revolution. We had written Paradigm Shift based on a multimillion dollar study of over 3000 companies and government agencies, detailing the shift from proprietary to open systems, and stand-alone to integrated software systems. This new era of technology showed managers and professionals with little or no technical background how to take action to achieve short-term benefits of this technology and position their organizations for long-term transformation.

Now twenty years later, the same themes of openness, collaboration, and networked models of innovation are relevant today. Take a look at this chart outlining the shift from closed hierarchy to the new open networked enterprise. We’ve come a long way.

 

 

 

 

 

Transparency: Burden or Competitive Advantage?

Transparency. Nonprofit, for-profit, nongovernmental, and government organizations of all sizes are encountering this term in everything they own and touch. Regulators, activists (such as Julian Assange and his WikiLeaks colleagues), and consumers are all fueling the call for free and easy public access to corporate information. And in an era of the Internet, mobile computing, and real-time analytics that can process an incredible volume of data within seconds, it’s easier than ever to uncover even the most secretive and secured documentation.

Brands are now forced to move from an attitude of having nothing to hide to proactively showing and proving they have nothing to hide. And they must go even further beyond lofty statements about their value and culture to real, distinct, and clear statements on actual results that can be proven in a court of law.

No, not all consumers are demanding transparency. But as total transparency becomes a basic hygiene factor, even those who don’t request it will expect brands to prove their ethical and environmental credentials to those who do care.

Read the full post in SAP Business Innovation.