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Making It Through The Storm

“Firms are increasingly reliant on networks, but often fail to understand the risks that networks bring,” says Don Tapscott, a management guru. Global supply chains, just-in-time and shifting to the “cloud” tend to bind once unrelated activities ever closer together, making them more prone to failing at the same time.

Clay Shirky Interviews Me on The Atlantic

Clay Shirky, a widely published authority on the Internet's effects on society, and Don Tapscott, an author and adjunct professor at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto took the time to pose tough, timely questions to each other on how social media, intellectual property laws, and generational divides are affecting politics, business, and culture.

On the WEF Blog: Global Solution Networks for the 21st Century

This year The World Economic Forum, in partnership with the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto, launched a multi-million dollar global investigation of emerging non-state networks of civil society, the private sector, government and individual stakeholders.

The End of Non-Fiction Books?

What appetite exists for a world where there are no more non-fiction books, but non-fiction apps? CBC Radio’s Laura Di Battista discussed the idea with business thinker Don Tapscott, who’s just launched his latest venture, the Don Tapscott app.

Philanthropy in the Age of Networked Intelligence

As we enter the networked age philanthropy is going through a profound change. This has big implications for fundraisers and donors alike.

Don Tapscott: Collaboration and the Age of Networked Intelligence

In his foreword of the white paper ‘The great technology take-up’, Don Tapscott makes the case for collaboration, co-creation and a new set of business principles. Tapscott, among others known as the author of Wikinomics looks at the changing paradigms in increasingly connected times.

The New Stage for Business Thought Leadership Writing

When I was informed about a new app from a business leader I follow and connect with often, Don Tapscott, I was definitely intrigued.

Discovery Learning is the New Higher Learning

The university is in danger of losing its monopoly, and for good reason. The most visible threat are the new online courses, many of them free, with some of the best professors in their respective fields.

After 14 Books, Don Tapscott’s New Book is Not a Book – It’s an App.

Thinkers50 and Rotman School of Management launch a groundbreaking app that provides an encyclopedic look at one of the world’s most influential thinkers: The Don Tapscott iPad App: New Solutions for a Connected Planet. Rather than a book, best-selling author and new media theorist Tapscott has developed an interactive and evolving tool appropriate for the digital age. The app introduces Tapscott’s latest thinking on how we can rebuild 10 institutions including the corporation, government, science, education, the media, democracy and our systems for solving global problems.  As such it’s a pretty bold initiative – proposing ideas on how we can do nothing less than rebuild our civilization for the networked age.

The app is an initiative of Thinkers50, the definitive ranking of the world’s living management thinkers (Tapscott is a Top 10 Thinker).

“It’s not that I have completely given up on books,” says Tapscott.  “But the digital revolution is changing the book – not just how its distributed and accessed but how authors present content and how they interact with their readers.“

The Don Tapscott app is the first of it’s kind.  “It makes sense for us that Don would be the one to pioneer the new model,” says Des Dearlove, co-founder of The Thinkers50.  “The Thinkers50 is all about identifying and sharing the very best ideas and Apps offer a fantastic opportunity to do that. It will be interesting to see if it works and if other authors and the industry as a whole turn in this direction.”

The Don Tapscott app also raises interesting issues about business models for content in the digital age.  Tapscott has chosen to make the app free and would be delighted to explain why that makes a lot of sense from a commercial point of view.

The app is now available for download in the Apple App Store and will soon be available for other devices.

About Don Tapscott

Don Tapscott is one of the world’s leading authorities on the transformative power of the internet across business, government and society, and the challenges related to growing beyond the Industrial Age. He advises global business and government leaders. Thinkers50 ranks Don in the top 10 of the world’s leading management thinkers. He has authored or co-authored 14 books, including the best sellers Paradigm Shift, The Digital Economy, Grown Up Digital and Wikinomics, is an adjunct professor at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto and the inaugural fellow at the Martin Prosperity Institute.  dontapscott.com Twitter @dtapscott

About the Thinkers50

Dedicated to identifying and sharing the best management ideas in the world, the Thinkers50 is widely recognized as the leading independent authority on management thinking. Its definitive global ranking of management thinkers is published every two years. The ranking is based on voting at the Thinkers50 website and input from a team of advisers led by Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove.  The Thinkers50 is the home of management ideas.  Thinkers50.com Twitter @thinkers50

About the Rotman School of Management

The Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto is redesigning business education for the 21st century with a curriculum based on Integrative Thinking. Located in the world’s most diverse city, the Rotman School fosters a new way to think that enables the design of creative business solutions. The School is currently raising $200 million to ensure Canada has the world-class business school it deserves. Rotman.utoronto.ca Twitter @rotmanschool


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White Paper and Infographic: Rethinking Analytics for the Social Enterprise

Here’s the executive summary from my white paper on Rethinking Analytics for the Social Enterprise developed with Mike Dover. SAP developed a great infographic capturing key points based on our webinar.

Download the white paper.

The practice of analytics is rapidly evolving. What was once the dominion of select analysts manipulating arcane, opaque spreadsheets based on data whose accuracy and timeliness were suspect, has now become a broader ecosystem where all team members (including participants from beyond the organizational walls) actively participate in collecting and acting upon information.

Today’s volatile business environment rewards those who can innovate the most quickly and respond accurately to changing consumer sentiment. The staggering amount of data being created is a daunting challenge—research suggests that 2.7 zettabytes (the amount of data in fifty million Libraries of Congress) of information will be created in 2012, an increase of more than 48% from 2011.1 The Social Revolution confirms the power of the individual voice and is leading to new collaborative business models where data is shared, analysed and treated differently. New analytics tools and capabilities are appearing in the marketplace.

Leading companies and technology providers are rethinking the fundamental model of analytics, and the contours of a new paradigm are emerging. The new generation of analytics goes beyond Big Data (information that is too large and complex to manipulate without robust software), and the traditional narrow approach of analytics which was restricted to analysing customer and financial data collected from their interactions on social media. Today companies are embracing the social revolution, using real-time technologies to unlock deep insights about customers and others and enable better-informed decisions and richer collaboration in real-time.