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, and even building motorcycles. Smart firms can harness collective capability and genius to spur innovation, growth, and success.Ī brilliant primer on 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 the key forces driving competitiveness in the twenty-first century.īased on a $9 million research project led by bestselling author Don Tapscott, Wikinomics shows how the masses of people can participate in the economy like never before. While some leaders fear the heaving growth of these massive online communities, Wikinomics proves this fear is folly. Today, encyclopedias, jetliners, operating systems, mutual funds, and many other items are being created by teams numbering in the thousands or even millions. In the last few years, traditional collaboration-in a meeting room, a conference call, even a convention center-has been superceded by collaborations on an astronomical scale.
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