Ten Forces That Flattened the World 1. 11/9/89: When the Walls Came Down and the Windows Went Up

Ten Forces That Flattened the World 2. 8/9/95-When Netscape Went Public “Me and my computer interacting with anyone, anywhere, anytime.”

3. Work Flow Software “Let’s do lunch: Have your application talk to my application”. “Let’s do lunch: Have your application talk to my application”. Ten Forces That Flattened the World

4. Open-Sourcing: Software

Ten Forces That Flattened the World 5. Outsourcing 6. Offshoring

Ten Forces That Flattened the World 7. Supply-Chaining Delivery Distribution Sales Supplier 8. Insourcing

Ten Forces That Flattened the World 10. The Steroids 9. In-forming

THE TRIPLE CONVERGENCE #1 “It is the complimentary convergence of the 10 flatteners, creating this new global playing field for multiple forms of convergence.”

THE TRIPLE CONVERGENCE #2 “It takes time for all the technologies, business practices, and habits needed to get the most out of them to converge and create a new breakthrough.”

THE TRIPLE CONVERGENCE #3 “A whole new group of people walk out onto the playing field; from China, India, and the Former Soviet Union.”

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