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G lobalisation. The world is Flat Thomas L. Friedman. Globalization understood. Increasing global relationship of culture. People and Economic activities. Global distribution of production of goods and services
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Globalisation The world is Flat Thomas L. Friedman
Globalization understood • Increasing global relationship of culture. • People and Economic activities. • Global distribution of production of goods and services • Reduction of barriers to international trades such as tariffs, export fees and import quotas. • Transnational circulation of ideas, languages and popular culture
While I was sleeping • Globalization 1 • Globalization 2 • Globalization 3 • Travel to Bangalore, China and Japan • Infosys outsourcing through teleconferencing
The ten forces that flattened the world 1.Collapse of Berlin wall - 11/9/89 • End of Cold war/ iron curtain • Economic mainstreaming • Indian experience of liberalization • 1977 Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak Apple II Home Computer • IBM PC 1981 , 1985, 1990 Windows 3.0, leading millions of people to enter into digital world. • ‘IAFT’ Bill Gates
2nd Flattener • Netscape • Netscape and internet broadened the access to communion for all section of society • Breakthrough of the connectivity • Low cost connectivity of the digital content • World Wide Web (www) a system of creating, organizing and linking documents, which could be browsed over the Internet ( Tim Berners-Lee) • Research broadened
Netscape : Mountain View 9th August 1995 went public • Digitized word music photo data transfer • Windows 95 built in internet support • Commercialization of data, inventories, music, photos, films
3rd Flattener • Work flow software • Ability of machines to talk without human intervention • Virtual Private Networks (VNPs) communicate and collaborate digitally. • Standards on the top of standards HTML, HTTP, TCP/IP, XML, SOAP. • Payment account
Flatters … • Uploading • Open source software like Wikipedia, blog
Outsourcing • Companies to split services and manufacturing to different parts of the world for effective and cost effective purposes.
Off-shoring • Manufacturing version of outsourcing
Supply-chaining • Example of Wal-Mart for shipping, distribution and sales with the use of technology.
In-sourcing • The example of UPS
In-forming • Availability of knowledge
Steroids • Digital equipments, mobile, iPod tabets,