Ten Forces that Flattened the World

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The World is Flat



Thomas L. Friedman formulated the ten forces that flattened the world by accident. He was in Bangalor when the epiphany that the world must be flat occurred to him.

Globalization

Phase 1.0

Phase 2.0

Phase 3.0

Genesis Moment

Flattener 1

Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989

Flattener 2

When Netscape Went Public

internet browser

Flattener 3

Work Flow Processing

Flattener 4

Off-shoring

Flattener 5

Outsourcing

Flattener 6

Flattener 7

Flattener 8

In-Sourcing

Flattener 9

In-Forming

Flattener 10

Steriods

The Triple Convergences

Ten Flatteners

Horizontal Collaboration

China, India, and Russia enter global market



(to be continued...)

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