Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything Audiobook (Free)
- Alan Sklar
- Tantor Media
- 2007-04-16
Summary:
In just the previous few years, traditional collaboration-in a gathering room, a conference call, even a convention center-has been superseded by collaborations with an astronomical scale.
Today, encyclopedias, jetliners, os’s, mutual funds, and many other products are being created by groups numbering in the hundreds or even large numbers. While some leaders dread the heaving development of these substantial online communities, Wikinomics proves this fear is normally folly. Smart firms can funnel collective about Wikinomics: How Mass Cooperation Changes Everything capacity and genius to spur innovation, growth, and success.
A brilliant guide to one of the very most profound changes of our period, Wikinomics issues our most deeply rooted assumptions about business and will prove indispensable to anyone who would like to understand competitiveness in the twenty-first hundred years.
Predicated on a $9 million research study led by bestselling article writer Don Tapscott, Wikinomics shows how masses of people can take part in the economy like nothing you’ve seen prior. They may be creating TV information stories, sequencing the individual genome, remixing their favorite music, designing software program, finding a cure for disease, editing college texts, inventing fresh cosmetics, as well as building motorcycles. You’ll read about:
-Rob McEwen, the Goldcorp, Inc., CEO who used open source techniques and an internet competition to save lots of his business and breathe new lease of life into an old-fashioned industry.
-Flickr, Second Life, YouTube, and additional thriving social network that transcend social networking to pioneer a fresh type of collaborative production.
-Older companies like Procter & Gamble that cultivate nimble, trust-based relationships with exterior collaborators to form radiant business ecosystems.
An important check out the future, Wikinomics will be your road map for conducting business in the twenty-first hundred years.
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