Wikinomics—mass collaboration,
peer production and Web 2.0.


Highlights

Researcher and consultant Anthony Williams is the coauthor with Don Tapscott of Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, the breakthrough introduction to the new economics transforming business and competition with the emergence of web 2.0. Anthony helps organizations worldwide harness the power of collaboration innovation in business, government and society.

Based on the largest investigation of strategic IT in business ever conducted, Wikinomics shows Web 2.0's interactive technology platforms make new ways of value creation not just possible but imperative.

He once again is teaming up with Don to write the forthcoming Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World (due September 2010).

For more than a decade Anthony has researched the impacts of new technologies on social, political and economic life. He has authored numerous influential reports on strategy, innovation and intellectual property, including a global effort to understand how transparency is revolutionizing business and redefining the corporation’s role is society.

He was a core member of an esteemed research team that charted a new course for governance and government for twenty top government agencies around the world, and is the author of a major study entitled Government 2.0: Wikinomics, Government & Democracy, and several articles on the topic.

Anthony Williams' work has been featured in such publications as BusinessWeek, the Globe and Mail and the Times of India, and is widely circulated in proprietary syndicated research programs. He has advised both Fortune 500 firms and international institutions, including the World Bank.

Anthony is currently a visiting fellow with the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto and a senior fellow for innovation with the Lisbon Council in Brussels.

Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World

Business Leaders Praise for Macrowikinomics

How the current economic crisis is transforming society, business and markets, and where the opportunities are for thriving in the face of the downturn.

The global economic crisis is a wakeup call to the world: we need to rethink and rebuild many of the organizations and institutions that have served us well for decades, but now have come to the end of their life cycle. The financial services industry, for example, does not just need fresh infusion of capital or some new regulations; it needs a whole new operating model — one based on transparency, sharing of intellectual property and global governance.

As the crisis has spread to other sectors in the economy and even other sectors of society, it is exposing structural weaknesses and modes of operation that no longer nurture social and economic growth. The recent collapse of many newspapers is just one storm-warning of more to come: conventional wisdom isn’t going to cut it for success in this century. We need to reinvent our institutions.

Another example: We face no challenge today that is more important than creating a green energy grid and reindustrializing the planet for sustainability. And for the first time in human history, the peoples of the world are building a global movement to solve this problem — a movement in which everyone is on the same side.

So while the burning of the global economic platform is propelling change, simultaneously the digital revolution is driving new opportunities and a new generation of digital natives is entering the workforce, people who think differently and bring a new and much-needed set of skills to our problems.

Anthony Williams and Don Tapscott have unique insights and bold proposals for how to transform these institutions to meet the challenges posed in the new century by new media, a new generation and a new economy.

Wikinomics

Tap the full potential of the emerging networked economy and its self-organized, mass-participatory communities.

A brilliant primer on one of the most profound changes of our time, Wikinomics will prove indispensable to any business that wants to understand the forces driving competitiveness in the twenty-first century.

To succeed, it will not be sufficient to simply intensify existing management strategies. Leaders must think differently about how to compete and be profitable, and embrace the new art and science of collaboration that has made Wikipedia and other Web 2.0-based enterprises so successful. We are talking about deep changes in the structure and modus operandi of the corporation, our economy and the internet, based on new competitive principles such as openness, peering, sharing, and acting globally.

Anthony’s presentations offer first-hand access to the principles and methods of Wikinomics and the competitive advantage that they represent. A second edition of the book was released in April 2008 that includes much new material.

Wikinomics was named one of the best business books of 2007 by

The Financial times
The Economist
CIO Insight
The Miami Herald
The Huffington Post
BusinessWeek's innovation reporter
Amazon.com
Hudson Bestsellers

Credentials

• Visiting Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto
• Senior Fellow, Lisbon Council
• Former Senior Fellow, nGenera Insight
• Consultant to the World Bank and other international institutions
• Published in BusinessWeek, the Globe and Mail, the Times of India, and other publications
• Masters in Research & Political Science, London School of Economics