Innovation Articles
Davos 2016: Are we ready for the Fourth Industrial Revolution?
Don Tapscott writes about Davos 2016 and the upcoming Fourth Industrial Revolution: The theme of this year’s Davos meeting is music to my ears. More than 40 heads of state and government, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, along with 2,500 leaders from business...
Dear Mr. President
From the Alliance for Converging Technologies Archives - Don Tapscott's letter to then-President Bill Clinton. Read what the famous futurist suggested to him in 2000. Dear Mr. President; You and your administration set the conditions for economic prosperity and...
Thinkers50 India recently asked Don Tapscott to explain Capitalism 2.0
“Capitalism is the Crisis.” (This is not a crisis of capitalism says one Occupy Wall Street Sign.) The continuing global economic mess is causing many to question “the system.” From student protests in Europe to the Occupy movement globally, many are asking what...
Don Tapscott: Why I’m joining the World Economic Forum
Don Tapscott is joining the World Economic Forum as a Senior Advisor. He's helping the Forum in the development of its Global Agenda Platform which is seeking to build communities of NGOs, academics, governments and business leaders around critical issues facing...
Marketing Chiefs Need To Embrace Technology
We have grown so used to being interconnected, to having the means of communicating with other people or finding out information at the touch of a screen that it is hard to believe that when the current generation of senior managers were in the early stages of their...
Don Tapscott on Digital Disruption
On a recent visit to China, Tapscott, who recently released the 20th anniversary edition of The Digital Economy, talked to CKGSB Knowledge about what the future has in store for us and how we can cope with the disruptions caused by technology. Read the full interview...
Digital Disruption
Technology is changing how Canada governs itself. The evolution isn't without risk. In this month's Canadian Government Executive, Don Tapscott's prescient words about the ineffectiveness of the current representative system of government offers warnings - and...
Keynote Address: Emerging Issues NC
Don Tapscott was the keynote speaker at the North Carolina Emerging Issues Forum. The forum featured some of the world's top thinkers about the future to speak on the state of innovation, from business to education to health. Don spoke about trends in the innovation...
Davos 2015 Wrap-Up: Get Ready for Breakthroughs About the Brain
The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos is over for another year. Amazingly, most of what was discussed this year had not been on the radar a year ago. A year ago there was no discussion of oil prices dropping to say $50; the acronym ISIS was never mentioned;...