by Kent Brittan
The Future of GlobalizationWhile this new globalized environment requires additional technical and logistical skills than before, the principal impediment to success is, as always, one of attitude. If a large company or its supply base look at the world outside their home country as a threat, as too complicated to understand, or simply [...]
October 23, 2007 | Posted in
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by Kent Brittan
Recreating the Supply Chain
For Western industrial companies the result of these new manufacturing and sourcing strategies has been to create a complex global distributed manufacturing and supply chain environment requiring far more orchestration than before. The complexity is even amplified for those forward-looking companies espousing lean manufacturing techniques to improve customer responsiveness and [...]
October 23, 2007 | Posted in
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by Kent Brittan
Approaches Towards Globalization
Globalization means many things to many people. Governments around the world have worked hard to reduce or eliminate foreign exchange controls and tariffs to create large regional free-trading zones only to see their work overwhelmed by a “global trading block” over which they exercise little to no control and try to [...]
October 23, 2007 | Posted in
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by Kent Brittan
Overview and Objective
It is difficult to pick up a newspaper these days without seeing a plethora of articles dealing with one aspect or another of globalization. Virtually all of these articles are written by observers of the phenomenon and reflect a view from the “Outside In”, that is, the current and forecasted future [...]
October 23, 2007 | Posted in
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By Mohit Joshi
The Globalization of technology and other knowledge services has been one of the hallmarks of economic activity in the past decade – with a humble start in remote development, this has now morphed into a $50+ billion dollar business (USD). In the United States (US), it is estimated that 80% of Fortune 100 [...]
October 3, 2007 | Posted in
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