Biography: Don Tapscott is Chairman of the Alliance for Converging Technologies. He is also President of New Paradigm Learning Corporation and an internationally sought consultant, speaker, and authority on information technology in business. Vice President Al Gore described Tapscott as one of the world's leading cyber-gurus, and the
Washington Technology Report called him one of the most influential media authorities since Marshall McLuhan. Tapscott is the author of seven books, including
Growing Up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation, which won the first Amazon.com nonfiction bestseller award in 1998, and the bestsellers
The Digital Economy: Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence and
Paradigm Shift: The New Promise of Information Technology.
David Ticoll is Managing Director and CEO of the Alliance for Converging Technologies. A global authority and consultant on business strategy and frequent, in-demand speaker, he was the first to describe a taxonomy of business webs, the new platform for wealth creation in the twenty-first century. Ticoll established the Canadian program of the Gartner Group in the early 1980s. He now leads private engagements and multiclient research on the impact of the Internet, wireless computing, and e-business on competitive advantage, organizational effectiveness, digital supply chains, and the future of government. Ticoll is a contributor to the
Harvard Business Review, Business 2.0, tele.com, and
USA Today, among others.
Alex Lowy is Managing Director, Research and Programs, of the Alliance for Converging Technologies. He is primary leader of the Alliances's research initiatives, groundbreaking investigations into e-business innovation. He is also a preeminent consultant and educator specializing in the creation of innovative work, learning, and information systems to achieve high-performance results. Lowy has contributed award-winning articles to journals including
Training and Development, the
Journal for Group and Organizational Studies, and
Business 2.0. A frequent conference speaker, he promotes the application of high-performance b-web design principles in firms around the world.
Tapscott, Ticoll, and Lowy are cofounders of the Alliance for Converging Technologies, an international research and consulting group that advises corporations and governments worldwide on strategy in the digital economy. They are coeditors of
Blueprint to the Digital Economy: Creating Wealth in the Era of e-Business.
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