Author Archives: Don Tapscott

Don Tapscott, one of the world's leading authorities on business strategy, is Chairman of Moxie Insight. He was founder and chairman of the international think tank New Paradigm before its acquisition 2007. Read more about Don.

| 08/09/2010 | Don Tapscott

Macrowikinomics in running for Business Book of the Year Award

The Financial Times has announced that MacroWikinomics is one of sixteen books on the longlist of competitors to win the 2010 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. More than 200 …   Read more

Science, Education & Health
| 06/04/2010 | Don Tapscott

The Impending Demise of the University

Universities are finally losing their monopoly on higher learning, as the web inexorably becomes the dominant infrastructure for knowledge serving both as a container and as a global platform for knowledge exchange between people.   Read more

Business & Economics
| 04/24/2010 | Don Tapscott

The capitalist crisis – who does what next?

Last week’s fraud charges against Goldman Sachs were a wake-up call that trouble still lies ahead for Wall Street. With the global economy remaining stalled, the deepening jobs crisis, a looming commercial real-estate meltdown and …   Read more

Science, Education & Health
| 02/04/2010 | Don Tapscott

Innovating the 21st-century university

In the current issue of EDUCAUSE Review, Anthony D. Williams and I have a 6,000-word essay discussing the urgent issues facing universities, that left unresolved, would see intuitions of higher learning going into a death …   Read more

NGOs & Government
| 02/04/2010 | Don Tapscott

My top ten themes from 2010 Davos, part 2

The World Economic Forum has wrapped up and the small town of Davos is being returned to the skiers. I’ve developed my top ten themes from the five-day event. I posted themes 1 – 5 …   Read more

Business & Economics
| 02/03/2010 | Don Tapscott

My top ten themes from 2010 Davos, part 1

The World Economic Forum has wrapped up and the small town of Davos is being returned to the skiers. I’ve developed my top ten themes from the five-day event. I’ll post five today and five …   Read more

NGOs & Government
| 01/30/2010 | Don Tapscott

Global problem solving? Stephen Harper defends the status quo

Although Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s speech on Thursday in Davos was received well, many of the delegates that I spoke with told me they thought Harper’s vision was too blinkered. With the conspicuous exception …   Read more

NGOs & Government
| 01/28/2010 | Don Tapscott

Davos: Nike and Partners Launch The GreenXchange

I mentioned in an earlier post that the World Economic Forum in Davos can be a catalyst for great ideas, and one example is the GreenXchange conceived by Nike.  Nike formally launched the Xchange Wednesday …   Read more

Business & Economics
| 01/27/2010 | Don Tapscott

Digitizing Davos

Notwithstanding that some very good things will likely happen at this year’s World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, it’s tough to solve the world’s problems in a week. A couple of years ago the Forum’s …   Read more

Business & Economics
| 01/25/2010 | Don Tapscott

Davos 2010: The World is Broken

As a Fellow of the World Economic Forum, I’ve been attending the annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland for a dozen years. But I’ve never anticipated the event more than this year (Jan. 27-31). The theme …   Read more