"Grown Up Digital" by nGenera's Don Tapscott was called "a must read for baby boomers and virtually anyone else born before 1977" in the New York Times Sunday edition book reviews.

Saying that the research and examples in the book "gives parents from the baby boom generation - like me - reason for optimism," the reviewer, Harry Hurt, III, recounts the eight norms identified in the book and how they represent a force for profound change in the generations' outlook on the world and the future.

On that note, Don's latest BusinessWeek article talks about how the Net Generation is using its knowledge and intuition about the Internet to affect power structures in politics and society. Provocatively, he asks: "The big remaining question for older generations is whether that power will be shared with gratitude-or whether we will stall until the Net Generation grabs power from us. Will we have the wisdom and courage to accept them, their culture, and their media?" This is the final column in a series of eight that began in November highlighting key concepts of the book.

Learn more about Grown Up Digital and be part of the global conversation by visiting: www.GrownUpDigital.com

Earlier this week, Don Tapscott and Mark Bauerlein (author of The Dumbest Generation) appeared on BBC World Tonight to debate the merits of the Net Generation.  Bauerlein's book and Don's recent Grown Up Digital present vastly different views of the abilities of the Net Gen, those individuals born between 1977 and 1997, to impact the world.  Bauerlein contends that the Internet "stupefies youth," while Don believes that the Net Generation is a bright, motivated, and caring generation that will change our future for the better.

Listen in on the interview on the Grown Up Digital.com

Business Week

A fascinating look at how young people are transforming our culture.  The Bottom Line: An insightful, data-rich analysis with broad implications for managers, marketers, and politicians.

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The Economist

The man who christened the “net generation” in his 1997 bestseller, “Growing Up Digital”, has no time for such (cynical) views. In the past two years, Don Tapscott has overseen a $4.5m study of nearly 8,000 people in 12 countries born between 1978 and 1994. In “Grown Up Digital” he uses the results to paint a portrait of this generation that is entertaining, optimistic and convincing.

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The Wall Street Journal

Grown Up digital paints a generally encouraging picture...an optimistic view of how humans are evolving to engage with technology. Literally evolving: Mr. Tapscott cites scientific research that people who use digital media from a young age have different brain development than those who don't... Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals alike, can draw lessons about the expectations of young people raised on real-time access to deep layers of information.

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The Wall Street Journal -- II

Don Tapscott, author of the 1999 bestseller “Growing Up Digital,” also refutes the argument that using the Internet makes young people stupid, lazy, violent or narcissistic. In his latest book, “Grown Up Digital,” based on thousands of interviews, he says people ages 12 to 30 have actually gained new, and in many ways better, visual, information-processing and communications skills as a result of having been reared on digital media.

Read the Wall Street Journal's supplementary Review

"The Net Generation - The Kids are Alright"

"Robert Bly claims that, thanks to the internet, the 'neo-cortex is finally eating itself'. Today's youth may be web-savvy, but they also stand accused of being unread, bad at communicating, socially inept, shameless, dishonest, work-shy, narcissistic and indifferent to the needs of others.

The man who christened the 'net generation' in his 1997 bestseller, 'Growing Up Digital', has no time for such views. In the past two years, Don Tapscott has overseen a $4.5m study of nearly 8,000 people in 12 countries born between 1978 and 1994. In 'Grown Up Digital' he uses the results to paint a portrait of this generation that is entertaining, optimistic and convincing. The problem, he suspects, is not the net generation but befuddled baby-boomers, who once sang along with Bob Dylan that 'something is happening here, but you don't know what it is', yet now find that they are clueless about the revolutionary changes taking place among the young."

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nGenera's Don Tapscott was the featured guest on NPR yesterday, discussing his latest book, "Grown Up Digital."

Program details and audio recording are available here.

The November issue of Harvard Business Review contains another article (the fifth since 2004) based on nGenera research.

Titled Teaming Up to Crack Innovation and Enterprise Integration, the article is authored by nGenera's director of research, Bob Morison, together with Jim Cash, retired from the Harvard Business School, and Michael Earl of Oxford University, long known as one of Europe's foremost experts on IT organizations.

The article describes two of the most fundamentally important and value-adding business roles of today's CIOs and their corporate IT organizations - in business innovation and business integration.

The article is based on the Re.sults project, "CIO II: Office of the CIO."

Last month, Don Tapscott, the Chairman of nGenera Insight, was a keynote speaker at the 2008 Talk the Future conference in Austria.  Don, Andrew McAfee, and Bret Swanson were all in attendance at the annual conference, which addresses the future of business and work as technology continues to play an integral part in the transformation of the enterprise.  

"Members of this generation seek their parents' input on key decisions. Anticipate this, accept parental involvement as a given, and make the most of it," advises Tammy Erickson.

Read the full article.

"The idea of being disengaged from work and using technology as a way to relieve boredom cuts across all ages. Older workers may shop online, send e-mails to friends or surf the web; younger workers may text, IM or update Facebook pages—but the impact is the same."

Read the full article.

October 21, 2008

By Kevin Maney

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As the CRM software market extended its growth streak yet again, CRM magazine and the seventh annual CRM Market Awards honored the vendors, consultants, and end-user companies focused on creating and cultivating rewarding customer experiences and relationships through the sophisticated integration of people, processes, and technologies.

nGenera was named as one of the year's Rising Stars. Read the full article here.

nGenera's product range, which is accessed over the internet as Software as a Service, includes software to help users test "what if" business scenarios and collaborate online to develop new business ideas. The software is aimed at large companies which pay a monthly licence fee. Customers include Royal Mail, Shell and British Telecom.

Read the full Computer Weekly article here

E.&J. Gallo, the California winemaker and family-run business notes its experience with its IT leadership training class sponsored by nGenera. The class involves workshops, teleconferences, personal advisers, and the use of nGenera's collaboration software. Read the InformationWeek Article here.

The Washington Post credits nGenera's Tammy Erickson's Across the Ages blog and notes it should be required reading for Baby Boomers, Gen-Yers, Gen-Xers, actually anyone who lives or works with people from another generation. Read the full article.

PBS's Nightly Business Report features nGenera's Robert Morison on how companies can "bridge the computer generation gap". 

Watch Robert's Commentary:

Read the article here.

The Wall Street Journal quotes nGenera's Tammy Erickson on workforce 2.0 strategies for older workers with young bosses: Read Article

nGenera's Katie Tierney shares recruiting 2.0 secrets with Inc Magazine in this recent article.

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Inc. Magazine covers nGenera's use of social media tools for recruiting, including Twitter and Facebook: Read Article

"SaaS vendors must offer new functionalities in order to succeed, Steve Papermaster, CEO of nGenera, which provides an on-demand platform powering the next generation enterprise, told the panel.

Moving traditional enterprise application functionalities to SaaS 'changes your billing cycle, but doesn't change the game for the customer,' Papermaster said. The breakthroughs will come from 'inventing the next ERP instead of just providing accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger, inventory and other modules,' he explained.

'If you're not providing disruptive change in the positive sense for customers so they can run and lead their business very differently from before, then you're not providing breakout value.' Papermaster said."

Read the full article here.

From InternetNews, By Richard Adhikari