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.
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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.
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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.
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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... 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.
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New Op-Ed on CNN: Why a Naked Apple Would be a Better Company
Foxconn, the high-profile electronics company that builds Apple's iPhone and other products in China, is back in the headlines after workers rioted at its Taiyaun factory. Capitalism 2.0 on Thought Leadership QuarterlyThought Leadership Quarterly
With the internet as a platform the Net Generation will change capitalism as we know it, but not without resistance.
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Are Corporations People (Redux)? Why Jack Welch Is Wrong
Corporations are the foundation of wealth creation, innovation, jobs, markets and the economy in our society. Despite their flaws they have proven to be the most effective form of organization for such tasks. However, while corporations contain people, and are owned by people, they...
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The Seven Imperatives for Highly Successful Business Revolutionaries
The following is an excerpt from the convocation speech given by Don Tapscott to the 2012 class of INSEAD.
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7 Imperatives for Highly Successful Business Revolutionaries: 2012 INSEAD Convocation
This is the full text of my convocation speech to the 2012 class of INSEAD, a graduate business school with campuses in France, Singapore and Abu Dhabi. Graduates, parents and other family members, INSEAD Faculty and distinguished guests: Please accept my heartfelt congratulations to all of...
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From Personal to Corporate Privacy. My Seven-Part Series in Toronto Star.
With radical transparency, all of our identities and behaviours become flattened and observable by others — and we lose control. We need a robust system for preserving our ability to maintain multiple and separate identities in the emerging real and virtual world of ubiquitous...
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The Need for a Personal Digital Privacy Strategy
The tensions between information freedom and personal control are exploding, and not simply because of the benefits of sharing information using new media. Massive commercial and government interests, along with malevolent individuals, have much to gain as each of us reveals highly granular personal...
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The Social Revolution on Global TV’s Morning Show
Is privacy an outmoded idea in the digital age?
A growing number of people argue that the notion of having a private life in which we carefully restrict the information we share with others may not be a good idea.
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Big Brother 2.0
Recently the New York Times reported that "Law enforcement tracking of cellphones, once the province mainly of federal agents, has become a powerful and widely used surveillance tool for local police officials, with hundreds of departments, large and small, often using it aggressively with...
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Corporations, the Main Beneficiaries of Personal Sharing
The most powerful forces making the case for sharing personal information are not philosophers or media pundits -- they are social media companies and other corporations who have a lot to gain from our social norms about privacy changing.
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Real Dangers of Thoughtless Sharing
The longer term, societal effects of a general loss of privacy due to ubiquitous data availability and surveillance are not well-understood. The ability to record nearly everything and to make that record available to others is unprecedented in human history, and defeats parallels. What...
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Privacy, the Self and Human Relationships
Privacy is nothing if not the freedom to be let alone, to experiment and to make mistakes, to forget and to start anew, to act according to conscience, and to be free from the oppressive scrutiny and opinions of others. It may seem an...
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To Share or Not to Share
The tensions between information freedom and personal control are exploding today and not simply because of the benefits of sharing information using new media. Rather there are massive commercial, government interests along with malevolent individuals that have a lot to benefit from each of...
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Living Out Loud — Should We All Be More “Open?”: The Upside of Sharing
The ubiquity of digital gadgets and sensors, the pervasiveness of networks and the benefits of sharing very personal information through social media have led some to argue that privacy as a social norm is changing and becoming an outmoded concept. This post is part...
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