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Short image summary of the 10 Flatteners. Read further into the investgation to get more deapth on each flattener.
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The Ten Flatteners
Flat = Connected
What has ‘flattened’ our world?
#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
#2: Netscape-“Broadened the audience”
#3: Workflow Software- or the ability for machines to talk to machines with no help from humans’
#4: Open Source- Collaborating and sharing work!
#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.
#6. Offshoring
#7. Supply-chaining When a company uses technology to streamline item
sales, distribution and shipping.
#8: Insouring
#9: In-forming
#10: The Steroids
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
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