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Ontario Business Report: Macrowikinomics Made Easy
The Ontario Business Report interviews Don Tapscott on reinventing the automotive, green tech, finance, and media industries.
Four Canadians Among World’s Top Business Thinkers
Four Canadians are among the world’s top 50 business thinkers, according to biennial rankings sponsored by the Harvard Business Review. In ninth position (up from 39) is Don Tapscott, an adjunct professor at Rotman.
Forbes Interview with Don Tapscott: The Industrial Age Has Finally Run out of Gas
Somewhere, between the APEC CEO Summit with world leaders in Hawaii, receiving a place on the Thinkers 50, a keynote speech at the Enterprise 2.0 conference, and another trip to Brazil for TEDx USPLeste all on the same day, I had a conversation with Don Tapscott yesterday on the changes terraforming the landscape of business and society.
Don Tapscott Ranks 9th in Thinkers50 2011 Global Business Awards
The Thinkers50 is a premier ranking of global business thinkers, with advisers drawn from America, Asia, the Middle East and Europe. The Thinkers50 2011 has ten established criteria by which thinkers are evaluated — originality of ideas; practicality of ideas; presentation style; written communication; loyalty of followers; business sense; international outlook; rigor of research; impact of ideas and the elusive guru factor.
Tech Crunch Interview: How Entrepreneurs Can Reboot the World
Tech Crunch’s Andrew Keen interviews Don Tapscott on how entrepreneurs can help reboot the economy.
Tech Crunch Interview: Why The World Is Broken
Tech Crunch’s Andrew Keen interviews Don Tapscott on how the industrial age is over.
TechCrunch’s Keen On… Don Tapscott to Malcolm Gladwell: “You’re just dead wrong”
Five short video clips on Tech Crunch’s Andrew Keen interviewing Don Tapscott on the Great Recession and how to fix it, and why Malcolm Gladwell is “dead wrong”.
Don Tapscott To Bring Macrowikinomics To Enterprise 2.0
At Enterprise 2.0 conference, Tapscott will argue whole industries will have to transform themselves to survive economic shocks.
Forbes: Memo To Merck: Rethink Big Pharma!
A major discovery of 21st Century business is that there is no such thing as a mature industry with only slow growth possibilities: these are merely industries to which management has yet to apply imagination.
Steve Jobs at Apple [AAPL] has demonstrated the validity of the proposition in music, the mobile phones and tablets, as has Jeff Bezos at Amazon [AMZN] in books and retail.
Nevertheless the Fortune 500 as a whole have been slow to respond to the opportunity. In a fascinating article in the Wall Street Journal, Don Tapscott, co-author of Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World, notes that in last five years the rate of business model innovation has not accelerated. Overall, the gains have been modest.