The World is Flat Vocabulary for the 21st Century

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The World is FlatVocabulary for the 21st Century
Presented by Sherry Snow Work-based Learning
Coordinator
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Changes Over the 20th Century

• World went from vertical, hierarchical structure
  to a horizontalization. Things flattened out.
• To solve a problem we now look outward to who has
  the skills.
• Brain power is global.

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10 Flattening Factors

1. The Berlin Wall
2. Netscape
3. Work Flow Software
4. Open Sourcing
5. Outsourcing

1. Off shoring
2. Supply Chains
3. In sourcing
4. In-forming
5. The Steroids

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The Flattening Factors

• 1. The Berlin Wall

• 1989
• Torn apart by citizens of East West Berlin 
• Fall brought the reunification of Germany
• Most dramatic episodes in 20th century history

Brought About

• Liberation of millions
• Free-market oriented governance

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The Flattening Factors

• 2. Netscape

• Mid 90s
• Move from PC-based platform to Internet-based
  platform
• First mainstream browser

TRIGGERED
Sharing
Accessibility
Imagination
Sparked Internet Boom
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The Flattening Factors
3. Work Flow Software

• Programmers created pipes and standard protocols
• Sales, shipping, storage became seamless
• Microsoft allowed everyone to work off the same
  screen and toolbar.

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The Flattening Factors

• 4. Open Sourcing

Linux

• Shape, design, create, sell and buy things from
  anywhere
• Practices in production and development that
  promote access to the end product's sources
• Free software movement created, maintained and
  improved by its users
• No corporations needed

• Prominent example of free software
• and of open source development
• Available to the public for anyone
• to freely use, modify, and
• redistribute

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The Flattening Factors

• 5. Outsourcing

• delegation of jobs from internal production
  within a business to an external entity, such as
  a subcontractor
• a business decision that is often made to lower
  costs
• Y2K causes America and India to begin a
  relationship

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The Flattening Factors

• 6. Offshoring

• Taking a specific function of your company and
  running it from another place
• Lower labor costs and taxes, increased efficiency
• More competitive in global market

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The Flattening Factors

• 7. Supply Chains

• Collaborating horizontally between suppliers,
  retailers, and customers
• Adoption of common standards
• Lowers border friction

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The Flattening Factors

• 8. Insourcing

• Delegation of operations or jobs from
• production within a business to an internal
  'stand-alone'
• entity, such as a subcontractor

• Toshiba has workshops run by UPS
• UPS picks up computer, repairs, sends back to you

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The Flattening Factors

• 9. Informing

• Access to information through creation of
  resources
• Search engines Google, Yahoo, MSN
• Formed global communities

• Basic usage statistics
• 169,400,000 people in the United States use the
  internet.
• 92 of internet users worldwide use Search
  Engines to find the sites they want.
• Search engine listings are the number one way to
  generate traffic on websites.

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The Flattening Factors

• 10. The Steroids

• Digital, mobile, and virtual innovations
• Laptops, cell phones, VOIP, handhelds
• Connected the world at hyper-speed

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Rules to follow to flourish in the Flat World

• Dont build walls
• Reach farther, faster, wider and deeper
• If youre big, act small
• Learn to collaborate
• Identify and strengthen your talents
• Outsource to win, not to shrink

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The Flat World

• In todays lesson, we discussed 10 forces that
  have led to the flattening of the world.

• Tonight I would like each of you to find
• an article in a magazine or newspaper
• which discusses one of the terms
• we talked about today.
• Write a summary on the article
• Share your thoughts with the class tomorrow

HOMEWORK