Macrowikinomics: New Solutions for a Connected Planet - Softcover

Tapscott, Don; Williams, Anthony D.

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9781591844280: Macrowikinomics: New Solutions for a Connected Planet

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ISBN 10: 1591844282 ISBN 13: 9781591844280

Publisher: Portfolio, 2012

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In their bestseller Wikinomics, Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams showed the world how mass collaboration was changing the way businesses commu�nicate, create value, and compete in the new global marketplace.

This sequel shows that in more than a dozen fields—from finance to health care, science to education, the media to the environment—we have reached a historic turning point. Collaborative innovation is revolutionizing not only the way we work, but how we live, learn, create, govern, and care for one another. The wiki revolutions of the Arab Spring were only one example of how rebuilding civilization was not only possible but necessary.

With vivid examples from diverse sectors, Macrowikinomics is a hand�book for people everywhere seeking a transformation of industry and institu�tions by embracing a new set of guiding principles, including openness and interdependence. Tapscott and Williams argue that this new communications medium, like the printing press before it, is enabling nothing less than the birth of a new civilization.

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In their 2007 bestseller Wikinomics, Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams taught the world how mass collaboration was changing the way businesses communicate, compete, and succeed in the new global marketplace. But much has changed in three years, and the principles of wikinomics are now more powerful than ever. In this new age of networked intelligence, businesses and communities are bypassing crumbling institutions. We are altering the way our financial institutions and governments operate; how we educate our children; and how the healthcare, newspaper, and energy industries serve their customers. In every corner of the globe, businesses, organizations, and individuals alike are using mass collaboration to revolutionize not only the way we work but how we live, learn, create, and care for each other. You'll meet such innovators as: ---An Iraq veteran whose start-up car company is staffed by over 45,000 competing designers and supplied by microfactories around the country ---A micro-lending community where 570,000 individuals help fund new ventures---from Azerbaijan to the Ukraine ---An online community for people with life-altering diseases that's also a large-scale research project Once again backed by original research, Tapscott and Williams provide vivi(more...)

About the Author:

Don Tapscott is an entrepreneur and internationally sought consultant on business strategies and society in the digital age. Macrowikinomics is his fourteenth book. Anthony D Williams is a leading authority on collaborative innovation and co-author of the international bestseller Wikinomics.

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