Blueprint to the Digital Economy: Creating Wealth in the Era of E-Business

by Don Tapscott, David Ticoll, Alex Lowy

In addition to writing bestselling books (The Digital Economy, Growing Up Digital, and Paradigm Shift), Don Tapscott is chairman of the Alliance for Converging Technologies, an organization with a "focus on competitive advantage in the digital economy," whose members include companies such as the Bank of Montreal Canada, Federal Express, General Motors, and Xerox. For Blueprint to the Digital Economy, Tapscott puts on an editor's hat and, along with Alex Lowy and David Ticoll, presents a collection of 20 articles that speak to all aspects of doing business in the digital age. The articles, written by members of the alliance, cover a wide range of topics from business design at GM and the role of banking in the digital economy to creating communities in cyberspace and the role of government in the networked world. The real strength of books in this genre is not their writing and presentation, which tend to be uneven, but rather the breadth of experience and perspective they communicate. And experience and perspective is something that this book has in spades. If you're at all interested in how business today is positioning itself for tomorrow, then Blueprint to the Digital Economy is definitely worth a look. --Harry C. Edwards

Genres: Business

410 pages, Paperback

First published May 31, 1998

About the author

Don is one of the world’s leading authorities on innovation, media, and the economic and social impact of technology and advises business and government leaders around the world.

In 2011 Don was named one of the world's most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50. He has authored or co-authored 14 widely read books including the 1992 best seller Paradigm Shift. His 1995 hit Digital Economychanged thinking around the world about the transformational nature of the Internet and two years later he defined the Net Generation and the “digital divide” in Growing Up Digital.

His 2000 work, Digital Capital, introduced seminal ideas like “the business web” and was described by BusinessWeek as “pure enlightenment." Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything was the best selling management book in 2007 and translated into over 25 languages.

The Economist called his newest work Macrowikinomics: New Solutions for a Connected Planet a “Schumpeter-ian story of creative destruction” and the Huffington Post said the book is “nothing less than a game plan to fix a broken world.”

Over 30 years he has introduced many ground-breaking concepts that are part of contemporary understanding. His work continues as a the Chairman of Moxie Insight, a member of World Economic Forum, Adjunct Professor of Management for the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and Martin Prosperity Institute Fellow.

Reviews

[Arthur · Rating 3 out of 5]

1999年出版的趨勢書，好不容易從書堆中挖掘出來，而今讀來卻如同過期食品一般，失去了它該有的味道。也再次驗證了預測通常都是失準的。

[Michael K.]

This was an interesting book, even though it was old when I got it. I believe things as they were foretold by this book were far exceeded by the time I actually read it. It was one of those books someone put into a box to give away while I was going through my degree program. It was written in 1998 and I obtained it by 2010. In terms of technology the moment you purchase anything it is already antiquated. By the time anything is designed on the drawing board it is minimally 2-5 years old. By the time it is developed and slated to be manufactured it is roughly 10 year old technology.  I thought it was interesting at the time.

[Eryc Tri Juni S · Rating 2 out of 5]

"Every Company will become an educational company or it will fail"
- Don Tapscott -

It has occurred at google. This is a good point of view to make a strong but responsible company. But without the power of money and good mentality, it just an another dream. A step toward to the global open source economy.