Don Tapscott, M.Ed.

Don Tapscott, M.Ed., 2 LL.D.s (honoris causa) 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.
 
Don is chairman of business strategy think tank New Paradigm (now nGenera), which he founded in 1993. He is also Adjunct Professor of Management at the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto.
 
Don has authored or coauthored eleven books on the application of technology in business and society. His latest book is Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World. He recently coauthored with Anthony Williams and published in 2006 Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything (with an expanded edition which was published in April 2008). His penultimate book, coauthored with David Ticoll in 2003 is The Naked Corporation: How the Age of Transparency Will Revolutionize Business. The Naked Corporation describes how corporate transparency, accountability, and stakeholder relationships are the new frontier for competitive innovation.
 
He has also coauthored Digital Capital: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs. This book describes how business webs are replacing the traditional model of the firm and changing the dynamics of wealth creation and competition. His popular 1997 book Growing Up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation explained the business and social impact of the first generation to come of age in the digital age. 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. He is best known for his 1992 book Paradigm Shift: The New Promise of Information Technology.
 
Don earned a B.Sc. in Psychology and Statistics, and an M.Ed. specializing in Research Methodology. He also holds two honorary Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) granted by the University of Alberta in 2001, and Trent University in 2006. While earning his Master's of Education at the University of Alberta, he ran for mayor of Edmonton in the 1977 municipal election.
 
Watch Don Tapscott on Wikinomics, Authors@Google: Don Tapscott, and An Interview with Don Tapscott. Listen to Don on net@night with Amber and Leo and on ComputerWeekly. Read Canada's Don Tapscott talks about the Wiki classroom of tomorrow, Wake up to the dawn of Web 2.0, Inside the mind of the Net generation, and Q&A: Book author Don Tapscott says corporate inertia prevents mass collaboration. Read his blog posts!