‘The World is Flat’ by Thomas Friedman

The Ten Forces that flattened the World.

Nastassja Salem 10C

#1 The Fall of the Berlin Wall This meant both sides of the wall

could join in the economic mainstream.

#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.

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.

Open Sourcing

Communities working together on online projects such as;

This is where companies are able to split manufacturing activities in a cost-effective and efficient way.

Outsourcing

Off shoring…Is the Relocation of the inner workings

of a company’s manufacturing

process to a country of cheaper operations.

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.

In sourcing

This is when a company's employees perform services for another company. For example, UPS repairs Toshiba computers on behalf of Toshiba.

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.