MacroWikinomics (2010) (edit title/settings)

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• Rogers
• Laporte
• Kundra
• Shai Agassi
• Mcbride
• Kevin Schawinski
• Lanier
• Huston
• Aaron
• Lauber
• Huffington
• Johnson
• Jessica
• Matt
• Smarr
• Robin Chase
• Buckley
• Diamandis
• Walker
• Ressler
• Google
• Lang
• Karas
• Schwab
• Gordon
• Binfield
• Meier
• Landman
• Sheehy
• Knowles

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• “New force “mass collaboration” and argued that it was reaching a tipping point where social networking was becoming a new mode of social production that would forever change the way products and services are designed, manufactured, and marketed on a global basis.”

• ““Today’s health care institutions are like the old media: centralized, one way, immutable and controlled by the people who created and delivered it. Patients are passive recipients.””

• “In the new world of wikinomics, the lines between sectors and institutions are blurring.”

• “Mass collaboration provides an attractive alternative to the hierarchical, command-and-control management systems that are failing many of our key institutions.”

• “As with today’s Internet, the printing press caused calamity, confusion, and disruption in many aspects of society.”

• ““That is what real revolutions are like. The old stuff gets broken faster than the new stuff is put in its place.””

• “So, smart firms treat intellectual property like a mutual fund—they manage a balanced portfolio of IP assets; some protected and some shared.”

• ““Proudly found elsewhere””

• “”We participate, therefore we are.””

• “Joseph Schumpeter, the great economic theorist, maintained that businesses must either embrace new technologies by giving up old methods and products or cede the market share to those who will.”

• “The hardest challenge for anyone who wants to transform their institution for the networked age is to deepen and broaden the culture of collaboration.”

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• Printing gave humanity the written word. The Web makes everyone a publisher. Printing enabled the distribution of knowledge. The Web provides a platform for networking human minds. Printing allowed people to know. The Web enables people to collaborate and to learn collectively.

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• Ushahidi highlights a profound contrast between a set of deeply troubled and stalled institutions that revolve around industrial age thinking and hierarchical organizational designs versus a new set of bottom-up institutions that are being built on principles such as openness, collaboration, and the sharing of data and intellectual property.

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• Social networking is becoming social production, where self-organizing groups of peers can design and produce everything from software to motorcycles.

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• Organizations can succeed and even thrive in this new environment by embracing the five principles of wikinomics: collaboration, openness, sharing, integrity, and interdependence.

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• wikinomics, defined as the art and science of mass collaboration in business, becomes macrowikinomics: the application of wikinomics and its core principles to society and all of its institutions.

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• “That is what real revolutions are like. The old stuff gets broken faster than the new stuff is put in its place.”

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• These three values—honesty, consideration, and accountability—together with transparency are the foundation of trust and integrity.

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• “today’s health care institutions are like the old media: centralized, one way, immutable and controlled by the people who created and delivered it. Patients are passive recipients.” In the new model, patients become more like partners—they self-organize, contribute to the total sum of knowledge, share information, support each other, and become active in managing their own health.

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• The common thread in the examples above is the growing realization that the collective knowledge, capability, and resources embodied within broad horizontal networks of participants can accomplish much more than one organization or one individual can acting alone.

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• If openness is about the communication of pertinent information to stakeholders of firms, governments, and other organizations, sharing is about the releasing or handing over of assets—by placing them in “the commons” for others to use or by sharing them with interested users under agreements that may generate license revenue.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• United States
• China
• Burma
• Iran
• India
• Denmark
• North America
• Europe
• Canada
• Africa
• Asia
• Germany
• Wall Street
• Haiti
• Uk
• United Kingdom
• Iraq
• Russia
• Middle East
• Toronto
• Brazil
• Kiva
• Hollywood
• Japan
• Virtual Alabama
• Washington
• Amazon
• Tokyo
• Guardian
• San Francisco
• Copenhagen
• Britain
• Saudi Arabia
• Israel
• D.c.
• Spain
• Boston
• Ontario
• Nettwerk
• Ushahidi
• France
• California

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Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by Wikinomics.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Don Tapscott (Author)
2. Anthony D. Williams (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 658

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Business & Investing › Management & Leadership › Management

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