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This is a summary for the fourth chapter of Thomas L.Friedman's book "The World is Flat". In this chapter, he discusses the different impacts that the shift from the Industrial era to the IT is affecting the world. He also gives a good example of outsourcing and intellectual law.
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"Hu 1 Stanley Hu Dr. Dat-Dao Nguyen IS 431 20 April 2013 The World Is Flat The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century is an award winning book and international bestseller authored by The New York Times’ foreign affairs columnist and three times Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas L. Friedman. The World Is Flat analyzes the rapid technological advancement and globalization of the world in the early 21st century and describes the root drivers of this flattening effect as well as its ramifications on various entities ranging from entire countries, to corporations, and down to the individual. Friedman also offers solid advice for dealing with the ensuing flattening of the world. “Flat” in this book’s context refers to the progressively level playing field the world is experiencing of late when it comes to commerce and opportunities in the global market. The book is organized into several major sections. The first of which, titled “How the World Became Flat”, defines ten influencing factors of globalization, or “flatteners” as Friedman calls it, and explains a phenomenon known as convergence. These factors include both technological as well as business oriented drivers that are flattening the world as we speak. As its name suggests, the next section of the book, “America and the Flat World”, discusses the implications globalization have on Americans both now and in the near to distant future. The following sections, “Companies and the Flat World” and “You and the Flat World” tackles the many challenges that corporations and individuals must face in our modern globalized era respectively. This book is actually the third iteration of this title Friedman has published, hence being dubbed “Release 3.0”, which includes more content regarding education as well as two additional chapters that focus on political activism, social entrepreneurship, and managing reputations in our globalized world; topics that Friedman determined were lacking in his previous editions. Friedman presents many technologies driving the rapid flattening of the world. One of the first technology drivers he mentions is Netscape, released on August 9, 1995, and the web in general, which brought the internet to the masses. This is listed as the second of the Ten Forces that Friedman describes, also known as flattener #2. From then on, the internet became more of a public service than a communication medium for the tech savvy. With the internet came all the common protocols we see today, such as FTP, HTTP, HTML, SSL, SMTP, POP, and TCP/IP. Another important piece of technology that is helping globalization is the third of the Ten Forces: Work Flow Software or flattener #3. This refers to software that allows fo.
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The Alternative trade theoriesMost of the theories touched.docx
The Alternative trade theories
Most of the theories touched above are what we call traditional trade theories i.e.:
1- Mercantilism
2- Theory of absolute advantage
3- Theory of comparative advantage
4- Theory of factor proportions and Leontief’s paradox
5- Theory of product life cycle
The alternative theories or newer theories include:
1- Theory of economies of scale
2- Specialization
3- First mover
4- Porter’s Diamond Theory
Of recent the book or movie “ The world if Flat” Friedman introduces the FLATNERS that he believes have changed the land scape of the globalization:
1-The fall of the Berlin wall
2-Netscape went public and shifted us from a PC-based platform to an Internet-based platform.
3-Work Flow Software
"Work flow platforms are enabling us to do for the service industry what Henry Ford did for manufacturing," said Jerry Rao, the entrepreneur doing accounting work for American from India. "We are taking apart each task, [standartizing it,] and sending it around to whomever can do it best, and because we are doing it in a virtual environment, people need not be physically adjacent to each other, and then we are reassembling all the pieces back together at headquarters [or some other remote site]. This is not a trivial revolution. This is a major one. It allows for a boss to be somewhere and his employees to be someplace else." These work flow software platforms, Jerry added, "enable you to create virtual global offices - not limited by either the boundaries of your office or your country - and to access talent sitting in different parts of the world and have them complete tasks that you need completed in real time. And so 24/7/365 we are all working. And all this has happened in the twinkling of an eye - the span of the last two or three years" (p.91).
For example, Wild Brain is an animation studio in San Francisco that produces films and cartoons for Disney with a team which is spread all around the world: the design and direction is done in San Francisco; the writers work from their homes in Florida, London, new York, Chicago, L.A., and San Francisco; the animation of characters is done in Bangalore; and the recording sessions are held in New York and L.A.
Salesforce.com offers online 590 business tools as email marketing tools, sales analysis tools, and finance tools. Justin Lu, a Shanghai-based businessman is able to sells his organic vitamins and run a $1 million-dollar-revenue generating business from his home with help from salesforce.com business tools.
4-Uploading
5-Outsourcing
The Year 2000 problem, also known as the Y2K problem and the millennium bug, was outsourced oversees because it was cheaper to hire programmers in India. India benefited not only from the dot-com boom (when the cables were laid to India), but also from he dot-com failure (when the cables connect India with the rest of the world).Many jobs eventually will be outsourced oversees, but I would like to mention h ...
The World Is Flat Essay
Thomas Friedman's book The World Is Flat examines how globalization has leveled the playing field for business internationally. Friedman argues that 10 factors, called "flatteners", such as the fall of the Berlin Wall, the rise of the internet, and outsourcing, have contributed to the flattening of the world by enabling more equal opportunities globally. He uses metaphors like the world being flat and streams feeding into rivers to illustrate how technologies have streamlined supply chains and connected the world in new ways.
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This document discusses a mock cybersecurity scenario involving a cyber attack on a fictional e-commerce company called AmazingKart.com. Over the course of several pages, it outlines the unfolding situation over 24 hours as hackers breach AmazingKart's systems and steal customer data, the incident is discovered by IT and reported in the media, and the company executives must deal with the fallout, informing customers, partners, banks, holding a press conference and meeting with the board of directors. Key lessons highlighted include the importance of preparation for cyber incidents and treating cybersecurity as a business-wide issue, not just an IT problem.
The New Way To Work is to Work Out Loud!
Cloud, advanced analytics, mobile, and social technologies are rapidly converging and transforming how work is done. Personal development and success of the organization are linked together like never before where expertise is tied to individuals yet available to everyone – always only a status update away.
A culture where individuals work out loud and in result drive the ability of their organization to be nimble and innovative is at the heart of what guides the roadmap for our Enterprise Social Software.
Samuel Colt
The document provides a biography of Samuel Colt, the legendary American inventor who helped revolutionize the firearms industry. It discusses that Colt was born to a farming family in Hartford, Connecticut and showed an early interest in engineering. As an adult, Colt invented the revolver gun and founded Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company, the first firearms industry to adopt assembly line production. This allowed Colt to mass produce guns, supplying the Union Army during the Civil War. Colt is now regarded as the man who transformed the firearms industry and established the first mass production company in the world.
The Global Effects of a Bankruptcy
The bankruptcy of the large South Korean shipping company Hanjin has had global effects that ripple through supply chains. Small businesses are particularly vulnerable when large retailers have priority for limited cargo space on remaining ships. Michael Bray, who owns a hobby shop, expects shipments of his products to be delayed during the crucial holiday season. While globalization and outsourcing have increased profits for large corporations, they also increase interconnectivity so that disruptions in one area can negatively impact unrelated companies. Small businesses must effectively communicate and plan contingencies to mitigate risks from events outside their control in the globalized marketplace.
The Global Effects of Bankruptcy
The bankruptcy of the large South Korean shipping company Hanjin has had global effects that ripple through supply chains. Small businesses are particularly vulnerable when large retailers have priority for limited cargo space on remaining ships. One small hobby shop owner expects his holiday shipments may be delayed, jeopardizing a crucial sales period. While globalization and outsourcing have increased profits for large corporations, they also increase interconnectivity so that disruptions in one area can spread widely. Effective communication is needed to coordinate partnerships and mitigate risks from such bankruptcies that are outside any one company's control.
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- 3. He then compares the industrial revolution, in which wealth was represented by corporations, to the IT revolution, in which wealth is represented by individuals.
- 4. The Industrial Revolution started about 200 years ago and only ended in the year 2000.
- 5. The IT revolution, which started very recently, is changing the business world as we know it.
- 6. He leads us to believe that the world flattening today could have been predicted by Karl Marx
- 7. Friedman then talks about outsourcing. He mainly talks about an incident where a company in Indiana was outsourcing an Indian company to upgrade Indiana’s unemployment computer system. This took jobs away from people in Indiana and provided more for Indians.
- 8. Friedman talks about how they now blurring boundaries between companies and workers, as well as between communities and business within them. Identities become more difficult to find. The more traditional positions as citizen, taxpayer, and shareholder have all become twisted and blurred.
- 9. Friedman concludes this chapter with an examination of intellectual property law and what must be done to protect it. He also talks about the expiring human bond in comparison to the online world.
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