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Grassroots innovation will change everything.

Great interview and he's Canadian!  I can see how management within IT organizations will change based upon mass collaboration.

Don won the Gary Hadford Award for Professional Achievement from CIPS so his thought leadership does resonate. I agree with you Em that grassroots will change how we manage and do things including in IT. And this reinforces what you are saying too Anne. Companies should look at this sooner than later.

Cheers,

Stephen

Wikinomics Short-Listed for Prestigious Business Book Award

Each year, a small group of business books stand out from the crowd as the most influential and thought-provoking – books that assist industry leaders in making market-shaping decisions. This year, Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. William has been named to this select group as one of six finalists for the prestigious Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.

Wikinomics, which explains how winning companies innovate and succeed in the emerging Age of Collaboration, generated excitement in the business community when it was published earlier this year. John Chambers, president and CEO of Cisco Systems, says “Wikinomics captures and explains the essential nature of the next generation of the Internet,” and calls Wikinomics “an insightful, engaging and very important book.” Google CEO Eric Schmidt says the book “heralds the biggest change in collaboration to date,” and A.G. Lafley, CEO of Procter & Gamble calls it “an important book.” Tapscott and Williams explain in the book how millions of people are now using their knowledge, resources, and computing power to self-organize into a massive collective force – creating the first global platform for collaboration.

This year’s competition for the Business Book of the Year Award drew more than 150 entries. The judges include such luminaries as Lionel Barber, editor of Financial Times; Lloyd C. Blankfein, chairman and chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs; Jeffrey Garten, Professor of International Trade, Finance and Business at the Yale School of Management; and Sir Martin Sorrell, chief executive of WPP. Judges selected the finalists from 15 titles chosen by Financial Times editors. The panel looked for publications that provide “the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues, including management, finance and economics.”

Previous winners of this prestigious award, which was established by Financial Times and Goldman Sachs in 2004, include Thomas Friedman for The World is Flat in 2005, and James Kynge, whose China Shakes the World was awarded Best Business Book in 2006. The winner of this year’s award will be announced October 25 in London.