Wikinomics was one of last year's best-regarded business books. Motley Fool says it should be a must read for stockpickers, as well. The main point the Fool wants its readers to know: a successful company in the modern era should not be afraid to open up...
Beneath all the hype about Web 2.0, a real revolution is taking place. Watch this 60-minute Cisco TechWiseTV video Webcast that reveals how wikis, blogs, social networking, and other Web 2.0 applications are creating a "mass collaboration" paradigm. Learn how you can apply this model to solve business challenges and...
Another note on Generation X, this time more positive. They may be the bashful 'dark-horse' generation between the limelight-hogging Boomers and Millenials, but X-ers are behind some of the most radical social media businesses in the world. This is the upshot of the fantastically named book, 'X...
In business, as in life, the people who are the best at it are constantly learning. To this end, we here at BNET try and keep you up to date on the big ideas in business and point out worthy books that'll keep you informed. And because it's the start...
David Leonhardt in the New York Times wrote about his favorite economics book of the year in No. 1 Book, and It Offers Solutions. In what he calls "a very good year" for books on economics, he named Shannon Brownlee's Overtreated tops, and his column tells why. It...
Despite the jargony name, crowdsourcing is a very real and important business idea. The basic idea is to tap into the collective intelligence of the public at large to complete business-related tasks that a company would normally either perform itself or outsource to a third-party provider. ...
America's top aerospace firm tapped the wisdom of its global suppliers to design the new 787 Dreamliner. Preparing a model of the 787 Dreamliner for a wind-tunnel test. Boeing enlisted 100 of its suppliers to help design the plane. ...