Is the World Flat?

Question 1

How does Friedman explain Globalization 1.0?

Answer 1

1492-1700. Shrunk world from size large to size medium. Countries globalized. You went global through your countries for reasons of imperialism, power, natural resources.

Question 2

How does Friedman explain Globalization 2.0?

Answer 2

1700-2000. Shrunk world from size medium to size small. This was spearheaded by companies. You went global through your company.

Question 3

How does Friedman explain Globalization 3.0?

Answer 3

2000-present day. Size small to size tiny. Global playing field has been flattened. It is built around individuals and small groups globalizing. They must increasingly think of themselves globally and relocate themselves globally. It will not be built around white westerners. Every color of the rainbow will have a part in this.

Question 4

According to Friedman, the three big flatteners are:

Answer 4

1. Fall of the Berlin Wall
2. When netscape went public
3. “Genesis”

Question 5

Why is the Fall of the Berlin Wall an important flattener?

Answer 5

Fall of Berlin Wall. 11/9/89. Allowed us to see the world as a complete flat plane. “When the wall came down and the windows came up”. Windows PC came out 5 years later.

Question 6

Why is when netscape went public an important flattener?

Answer 6

8/9/95. Netscape went public. This browser gave us the first commercial browser and made the internet alive as a device that everyone could use and connect with one another. Netscape commercialized transmission protocols that made sure the internet would not be under the control of a single company. It starts the “.net” and a trillion dollars in investment in fiber optic cables made people from all over the world neighbors. Allowed people to communicate for free!

Question 7

Why is the genesis flattener an important flattener?

Answer 7

Genesis flattener. “Work flow”. It is simply his term for all of the software and standards that allow work to flow.

Question 8

What did the dot com bubble result in?

Answer 8

Laying one trillion in optic cable that made everyone a next door neighbor

Question 9

What did the genesis flattener allow people to do?

Answer 9

To connect and collaborate

Question 10

The first three flatteners allwed for six types of collaboration to flatten the world further. What are the 6 types of collaboration?

Answer 10

1. Outsourcing
2. Offshoring
3. Open sourcing
4. Supply chaining.
5. Insourcing
6. Informing

Question 11

What is outsourcing?

Answer 11

Empowered by people to people/ application to application.

Question 12

What is offshoring?

Answer 12

When China joined the world trade organization

Question 13

What is opensourcing?

Answer 13

Its a verb. New form of collaboration

Question 14

What is supply chaining?

Answer 14

This is what walmart does. It designs a global supply chain down to the last atom of efficiency

Question 15

What is insourcing?

Answer 15

This is what UPS does. The take over your entire internal logistics. UPS employee repairs all of your electronics, sneakers, everything!!!! Someone in funny brown shorts is running the world

Question 16

What is informing?

Answer 16

This is what Friedman says is his name for Google or “search”

Question 17

Walmart used _______to make the largest company in America without making any product

Answer 17

Supply chaining

Question 18

______ occurs when a business activity such as bookkeeping is done over the Internet by another company.

Answer 18

Insourcing

Question 19

The 10th flatteners or the “Steroids” that enabled global collaboration by anyone, any where, any time, using any device were:

Answer 19

a) Wireless
b) Voice over internet
c) Filesharing

Question 20

All 10 flatteners converged to create the flat world around the year:____

Answer 20

2000

Question 21

Printing your own ticket is an example of _______

Answer 21

Horizontilazation and it is the second convergence of 2000.

Question 22

What does Friedman mean by triple convergence?

Answer 22

India, China, and Russia open up and these people join the playing field. That’s 300 million people that are going to shape the 21st century. We’re going from vertical to horizontal. This is going to be the mother of all inflection points. It’s going to be disguised as a political perfect storm: 9/11, Emron, dot.com busts. Right when the world got flat, we’re looking the other way. These CEOs and higher-ups all know what is going on but they haven’t told anyone. There is no such thing as an American job anymore. Everything we call the IT revolution is just the warm up act. We are now just at the end of the beginning.