“I'm a social science researcher, so I generally find business books to be pretty frustrating. Not enough attention paid to the mechanisms afoot, not enough lessons learned. And I felt like I was reading one long sales pitch. However, the case studies were informative, and it gave me ideas for potential application of wikis.”
“Was pretty good. Some of the concepts were stuff that I had thought of on my own so it made me feel very smart when I read this book and see that this author is thinking the same things.”
“Title refers to shift in economy of scale. There is a page full of alternate subtitles which indicate that it is a snapshot of a morphing environment (p5). This book looks at some of the major innovations driven by the internet & their present & future significance. It has a model based on 7 features which are the chapter title buzzwords. The “agora”, Greek for marketplace, of ideas invites individuals & groups to be creative & reduces the barriers to change. There is a strategy to apply that involves awareness of emergent trends which will become the next motive forces. The notes discuss large countries such as China having a talent shortage or India succeeding in pharma while still looking for cures (p 301). The individual is empowered by this, yet large multinationals & joint ventures are in a strong position. Scientific tenure & promotion curiously still depend on paper-based journals (p 307). www.wikinomics.com is official site.cadsmithinc.googlepages.com/wikinomics.pdf has a reader outline map.”
