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10 factors that flatten the world - Coggle Diagram
10 factors that flatten the world
The Colapse of Berlin Wall
Symbolized the end of the Cold War
Allowed people to join the economic mainstream
Netscape
made the Internet accessible to everyone from five-year-olds to eighty-five-year-olds.
Work Flow Software
The standards and technologies that allowed work to flow.
The ability of machines to talk to other machines with no humans involved.
Uploading
Communities uploading and collaborating on online projects.
Outsourcing
allowed companies to split service and manufacturing activities into components
with each component performed in the most efficient, cost-effective way.
Offshoring
Manufacturing’s version of outsourcing
Companies who transfer production or services to a location abroad without outsourcing the job.
In-sourcing
Assigning a project to a person, department within the company
subsidiaries instead of hiring an outside person or company to do the work.
In-forming
Never before in the history of the planet have so many people – on their own – had the ability to find so much information about so many thing and about so many other people
The Steroids
Personal digital devices like mobiles, iPods, personal digital assistants, instant messaging, and voice over Internet protocol.
Supply-Chaining
Wal-Mart retail supply chain – using technology to streamline item sales, distribution, and shipping.