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How To Attract The ‘Net’ Generation Of Millennial Workers

As the millennial generation continues to grow older and larger – projected to span 75 percent of the global population and workforce by 2025 – many companies and businesses are still figuring out how to best interact with and attract the millennial generation – not only as consumers, but as creative and innovative workers as well.

Could a United States of North America boost the US and Canada

If you were fed up with the intransigence of the Tea Party's disciples during the federal government's shutdown, there is no cause for optimism by its resolution. The system could again be hijacked in a few months by a small portion of one of two parties in one of the three branches of the government. A system that permits this has deep flaws.

Sick of a Dysfunctional Congress? Here Is a Modest Proposal

If you were fed up with the intransigence of the Tea Party's disciples during the federal government's shutdown, there is no cause for optimism by its resolution. The system could again be hijacked in a few months by a small portion of one of two parties in one of the three branches of the government. A system that permits this has deep flaws.

Resource Scarcity In A World Of Over-Capacity

We have an opportunity to shift the way that we manage resources to a real-time interactive and collaborative model, and if we do that, we can address some of these big resource scarcities that exist on the planet. It’s about capitalism in The 21st Century in a more sophisticated way.

SAP: The Transparency Of The Networked Age

With the network age, we have real-time systems that instantly analyze and enable us to evaluate what’s happening and respond infinitely more quickly.

We have mobile computing that takes technology, power, information, and the capability of collaboration right out to front-line workers who can constantly make real-time adjustments.

From opacity to transparency

In the old model, there was opacity throughout the chain. And the new model has transparency throughout. So that an OEM, for example, can look all the way down through the network right to the base suppliers and find out what’s going on. And base suppliers can look all the way up to understand the market demand.

Companies can turn their customers into producers (or “prosumers”).

Read the full post in SAP Business Innovation.

 

CNBC Interviews Don Tapscott at The Global Entrepreneurship Summit

CNBC interviews Don Tapscott on entrepreneurship, collaboration and the impact of the U.S. government shutdown at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Malaysia.

Review of Merger of the Century

Best-selling author, writer and pundit (and dual citizen of both countries) Diane Francis argues that the United States and Canada should unite ASAP. She sets out the economic benefits of joining forces, how the deal could be fairly structured, and the political hurdles to overcome.

SAP Future of Business Series

Don Tapscott joins SAP’s Center for Business Insight for a 12 part series on the future of business. Stay tuned through the end of October 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

The Future of Resource Optimization: Responsibility in Real-time

In my last blog, I addressed how the new world order of the empowered individual is forcing businesses and governments to become more open, interact, participate, and provide flexibility in the workplace. But with all this empowerment, there’s still a troubling disconnect in the world today.

The need for real-time responsiveness in optimizing physical resources has never been greater. Resources like oil, gas, and water that were once assumed to be limitless are now under pressure, threatening production, healthy living, even survival. Indeed, accessing scarce and unevenly distributed resources has become one of civilization’s most pressing issues.

At the same time, we see enormous and wasteful overcapacity in all kinds of things. Automobiles and vacation properties, for example, are used just a fraction of the time that they are available. Meanwhile intangible resources such as creativity, intellectual capital, and access to top talent are becoming the most important predictors of success as we enter the innovation economy (more on this in a future story).

We need to rethink how we produce and consume, taking a cradle-to-cradle, responsible approach to optimization across the entire product lifecycle, from the sourcing of raw materials to disposing or recycling, and reallocating resources in a real-time response to demand and supply fluctuations.

Read the full post at SAP Business Innovation.

Social Collaboration Platform Dos and Don’ts From HR Tech 2013

At the start of the 2013 HR Technology Conference & Expo, held this week in Las Vegas, keynote speaker Don Tapscott said the world is heading toward a state of "radical openness." He broke the concept into four characteristics -- collaboration, transparency, sharing and empowerment -- and recommended companies "undress for success."