The AIM Institute IT Futures Forum Presents
 

Collaboration, Innovation and Value Creation:
How Web 2.0 is Changing Everything

Special Guest Speaker
Anthony Williams
Researcher, Consultant and Co-author of
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008
Luncheon 11:30am - 1:00pm
Book signing to follow
Embassy Suites La Vista Hotel & Conference Center
12520 West Port Parkway
La Vista, NE

Reservations Can No Longer Be Accepted
Please Call Sherry Beglin at (402) 345-5025 Ext. 148 for Questions

$40 AIM Members ($400 Table of 10);
$80 Non-Members ($800 Table of 10)

Thank You to our Supporting Sponsor 
Continuum Worldwide

About Anthony Williams

Researcher and consultant Anthony Williams is the co-author with Don Tapscott of Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, the breakthrough introduction to the new economics transforming business and competition with the emergence of Web 2.0. Based on the largest investigation of strategic IT in business ever conducted, Wikinomics shows how Web 2.0’s interactive technology platforms make new ways of value creation possible—even imperative.

For more than a decade Anthony has researched the impacts of new technologies on social, political and economic life. He has authored numerous influential reports on strategy, innovation and intellectual property, including a global effort to understand how transparency is revolutionizing business and redefining the corporation’s role in society.

Anthony was a core member of an esteemed research team that charted a new course for governance and government for 20 top government agencies around the world. He is the author of a major study entitled Government 2.0: Wikinomics, Government & Democracy, and several other articles on the topic.

Anthony Williams is Senior Fellow at nGenera Insight. His work has been featured in such publications as BusinessWeek, the Globe and Mail and the Times of India, and has been widely circulated in proprietary syndicated research programs.

Click Here to download an audio file of Anthony Williams being interviewed by Jeff Beals on the Grow Omaha show on NewsRadio 1110 KFAB. Length is 6:25 minutes.

Wikinomics:
How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

A brilliant primer on one of the most profound changes of our time, Wikinomics will prove indispensable to any business that wants to understand the forces driving competitiveness in the 21st century. To succeed, it will not be sufficient to simply intensify existing management strategies. Leaders must think differently about how to compete and be profitable, and embrace this new art and science of collaboration. We are talking about deep changes in the structure and modus operandi of the corporation, our economy and the internet, based on new competitive principles such as openness, peering, sharing, and acting globally.
 
Anthony's presentation will offer first-hand access to the principles and methods of Wikinomics and the competitive advantage that they represent.
   
Wikinomics was named one of the best business books of 2007 by the Financial Times, The Economist, The Miami Herald, CIO Insight, The Huffington Post, Amazon.com, Hudson Bestsellers, and BusinessWeek’s innovation reporter. A revised edition of the book was released in April 2008.

“Wikinomics is undoubtedly the best picture so far of the new world of enterprise, collaboration, innovation, and value creation. This is a breathtaking piece of work.”  - Tom Peters