Don Tapscott (born 1947) is a Canadian business executive, author, consultant and speaker based in Toronto, Ontario, specializing in business strategy, organizational transformation and the role of technology in business and society. Tapscott is chairman of business strategy think tank New Paradigm (now nGenera Insight), which he founded in 1993. Tapscott is also Adjunct Professor of Management at the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto.
Tapscott holds a B.Sc. in Psychology and Statistics, and an M.Ed. specializing in Research Methodology. He also holds three honorary Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) granted by the University of Alberta in 2001, Trent University in 2006, and McMaster University in 2010. While earning his Master's of Education at the University of Alberta, he ran for mayor of Edmonton in the 1977 municipal election.
Tapscott has authored or co-authored thirteen books on the application of technology in business and society. His most recent book, released in 2008 and entitled "Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World," draws upon a 4.5 million dollar research study of over 11,000 young people and examines how the net generation is changing the world and all of its institutions."Grown Up Digital" is a follow-up to his popular 1997 book "Growing Up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation" which explained the business and social impact of the first generation to come of age in the digital world. His most famous book, co-authored with Anthony Williams and published in 2006 is Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything. Wikinomics was the best selling Management book in the US of 2007 and has been translated into 22 languages.
His 2003 book The Naked Corporation: How the Age of Transparency Will Revolutionize Business, co-authored with David Ticoll, describes how corporate transparency, accountability, and stakeholder relationships are the new frontier for competitive innovation. His 2000 release Digital Capital: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs describes how business webs are replacing the traditional model of the firm and changing the dynamics of wealth creation and competition. Digital Economy: Promise and Peril In The Age of Networked Intelligence, published in 1995, was one of the first books to describe how the Internet would change business and society. Tapscott is also known for his 1992 book Paradigm Shift: The New Promise of Information Technology.
问:这个项目延续到2007年就是“网络新生代的研究”(The Net Generation Strategic Investigation)项目,其关注点是作为“消费者与生产者共生”的“网络新生代”的影响。这个项目正在全球范围内开展,那么,它对行业、商业、政府、教育、媒体等各个领域有着怎样的意义?在中国,这一项目的进展情况如何
维基经济学,Wikinomics,是一个新铸造的名词,也是 一本新书的名字,作者唐·泰普史考特(Don Tapscott)是一位在网路时代迭有启发性新作的作家。他在一九九六年出版的《数位经济》(The Digital Economy,台湾生产力中心出版的中文版译做《数位化经济时代》)堪称是数位经济最明白晓畅的入门之书,也是名气很大的国际畅销书。但我自己更受他的 《在数位中长大》(Growing Up Digital, 2000,中文版译做《N世代》)一书的影响和启发,特别是他首开风气,提醒世人要注意“网路世代”(Net Generation)的特性和未来影响力。
现在唐·泰普史考特又有新书,书名就是《维基经济学》(Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, 2006),再度揭开Web 2.0 时代一个极富潜力的议题与方向。