Executive Summary

Technology has enabled people and organizations to manage projects and operations across time zones and country boundaries, and maintain regular interaction with people of different cultures and languages. As a result, the distinctions of the past that separated people and businesses have become imprecise. The distinction between the professional and the personal, the public and the private, and the proprietary and the communal is similarly blurring. Organizations that can embrace the blending of these worlds will successfully navigate the opportunities that will emerge. Technology has a vital role to play in forming the bridge between the newly revealed and the newly constructed facets of our worlds.