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Managing IT for a Flat World
In the age of the level global playing field, companies will need to rethink the way they compete, collaborate, and communicate
Our world is flat. According to New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, it became that way around the year 2000. A convergence of technologies and political events in the late 1990s, aided in part by a massive investment in information technology, in effect leveled the playing field and enabled people all over the world to work together. The "flattening" created a global platform that let more people plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than ever before in history.
David Goulden
Full Story: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2006/tc20061002_818019.htm
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