the ten flatteners
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The Ten Flatteners
Flat = Connected
What has ‘flattened’ our world?
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#1: Collapse of the Berlin Wall (11/9/89)“Start of the revolution” – allowed individuals to use their own personal computers, giving them freedom to connect again with the world, to find happiness
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#2: Netscape-“Broadened the audience”
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#3: Workflow Software- or the ability for machines to talk to machines with no help from humans’
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#4: Open Source- Collaborating and sharing work!
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#5. Outsourcing
Allows companies, and individuals to get other work done for them, allowing theses businesses to work in the most efficient, cost-effective, time-effective way.
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#6. Offshoring
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#7. Supply-chaining When a company uses technology to streamline item
sales, distribution and shipping.
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#8: Insouring
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#9: In-forming
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#10: The Steroids
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These ideas have been taken and adopted from “The World is Flat” by Thomas L. Friedman, Please read into my investigation to get a deeper understanding!
-Eliah