the world is flat
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Summary Of Chapter 2 of Thomas Friedman's book - The World is FlatTRANSCRIPT
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‘The World is Flat’ by Thomas Friedman
The Ten Forces that flattened the World.
Nastassja Salem 10C
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#1 The Fall of the Berlin Wall This meant both sides of the wall
could join in the economic mainstream.
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#2 Netscape and the InternetJust a over decade the web has
broadened from use as a communications medium for very few technologically advanced people to use by anyone of almost any age for various purposes.
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Workflow Software allows a computer to do its work for you as well as allowing computers to work with each other without human collaboration. Thomas Friedman believes this force to be a “crude foundation of a whole new global platform for collaboration.”
Wikipedia is an example of stochastic (random) workflow.
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Open Sourcing
Communities working together on online projects such as;
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This is where companies are able to split manufacturing activities in a cost-effective and efficient way.
Outsourcing
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Off shoring…Is the Relocation of the inner workings
of a company’s manufacturing
process to a country of cheaper operations.
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Supply Chaining
This is when a company takes products from many different places and sells them in one place such as…
using technology to streamline item sales, distribution, and
shipping.
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In sourcing
This is when a company's employees perform services for another company. For example, UPS repairs Toshiba computers on behalf of Toshiba.
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Thomas Friedman believes that these 8
aspects are those that played the main role in flattening the world and
leveling the global playing field.
Thomas Friedman believes that these 8
aspects are those that played the main role in flattening the world and
leveling the global playing field.