Saturday, August 2, 2008

the world is flat, the world is spiky


these metaphors are fun ways to envision the global market in relation to our business planning.

The world is flat or the world is spiky don't fully describe the current environment or contradict one another. A New York Times columnist, Thomas Friedman, explains how our markets are recently open to globalization because of technology. Following this thought we can consider the global reach of our competition, our customers, and our resources to open our minds to new business strategies. Every market around the world can be equally accessible.


Author, Richard Florida, described the spiky phenomena. The image above shows the dramatic aggragation of people and economies despite the low barriers to spread throughout the globe. While the worlds economy’s are spread throughout the world, they are highly concentrated throughout forty cities.


In general, it seems that this concept is well-practiced through outsourcing and following the sun. Thomas says that innovation doesn't require emigration.
As Warren Buffet tells me, it's not whether I make x or 2x that will bring me happiness, take a job you love.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

...geez, Denver barely shows up on the US spike map, what up with that!

...& Warren Buffet is your bud now, WHAAAAAAAAAAAT??? :) You must be gettin' more connected in DC than you let-on!

...keep on bloggin' bro,

aurelio

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