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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.046
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Label: Portfolio Hardcover
Manufacturer: Portfolio Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: December 28, 2006
Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover
Sales Rank: 2242
Studio: Portfolio Hardcover
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In just the last few years, traditional collaboration—in a meeting room, a conference call, even a convention center—has been superseded by collaborations on an astronomical scale.
Today, encyclopedias, jetliners, operating systems, mutual funds, and many other items are being created by teams numbering in the thousands or even millions. While some leaders fear the heaving growth of these massive online communities, Wikinomics proves this fear is folly. Smart firms can harness collective capability and genius to spur innovation, growth, and success.
A brilliant guide to one of the most profound changes of our time, Wikinomics challenges our most deeply-rooted assumptions about business and will prove indispensable to anyone who wants to understand competitiveness in the twenty-first century.
Based on a $9 million research project led by bestselling author Don Tapscott, Wikinomics shows how masses of people can participate in the economy like never before. They are creating TV news stories, sequencing the human genome, remixing their favorite music, designing software, finding a cure for disease, editing school texts, inventing new cosmetics, or even building motorcycles. You'll read about:
• Rob McEwen, the Goldcorp, Inc. CEO who used open source tactics and an online competition to save his company and breathe new life into an old-fashioned industry.
• Flickr, Second Life, YouTube, and other thriving online communities that transcend social networking to pioneer a new form of collaborative production.
• Mature companies like Procter & Gamble that cultivate nimble, trust-based relationships with external collaborators to form vibrant business ecosystems.
An important look into the future, Wikinomics will be your road map for doing business in the twenty-first century.
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I ordered a new copy of this book and the book I received looks used. The cover is dirty, the spine is loose, and there is a black permanent ink slash mark on the bottom of the book across the pages). I was going to give this book as a gift but decided against it because of the poor condition.
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I would have preferred to be told behorehand that there was writing in the book itself. But other than, I was pleased with the speed of delivery and the book.
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And mass collaboration does change everything: education, business, science, politics, communication. This book is an excellent document, enfolding the how of the new media landscape and tool set, how they have allowed for a shift in collective progress, connecting people with ideas and broadcasting to the masses.
This book is especially valuable to business administrators who need a view into the new way of doing things, and a cabinet full of empirical evidence to sell stockholders ... Read More
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The authors are hacks. This is the worst kind of pseudoscience, and it's way too long.
The authors build a case for various forms of collaboration using anecdotes and a few statistics (w/ fewer references). Before the reader has a chance to ask "how do I know collaboration was the factor that accelerated this company's growth" or "what else might have been going wrong at the other company" the authors quickly make up a few scientific sounding words and speak in broad generalizations ... Read More
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As has already been stated, the view of the world of mass collaboration presented in this book is rather simplistic. It could be helpful, though, if you are new to the topic and would like to understand what "emergence", "wikis" and "prosumers" mean and how the term "knowledge" is changing in meaning.
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