The World Is Flat

A flat world is a sea of opportunities within a globally dispersed supply chain. Li & Fung defines and instructs the public how to utilize this flat world through network orchestration and competing network to network in a globally competitive economy in order to maximize the customer’s demands. This is not an easy tasks as the world is not completely flat and many stipulations cause companies in the global market to become stagnant. The following essay answers the questions of what is the flat world and how we can manage the benefits and bumps to progress to a borderless world. A Flat World: What and How? A flat world describes a world in which everyone is interconnected and more opportunities are presented. A flat world is a world in which…

Indoor Farming!? The Potential Solution of the Ever-Flattening World? All my life I’ve been surrounded by farming. Yet I’ve always wondered what will happen to farming as we know today by how fast our population is growing. Where will we get the food to feed this ever-growing population? Well there is a new innovative idea that could become the solution, Vertical Farms! As Friedman says in “The World is Flat”, “Whatever can be done will be done. So, if you have an idea, pursue it. Because…

Meaning, the playing field for global competition has become even (Friedman, 2007). Peripheral and semiperipheral countries are now able to compete at a level as more developed countries, in his opinion. He essentially argues that education should be reflective of this theory. As our world becomes more flattened, or globalized, our education should become more globalized so America can stay in the global race. Linda Darling-Hammond expounds upon Freidman’s Flat world theory in, The Flat World…

“The playing field is being leveled” states Thomas Friedman in his bestselling book The world is Flat.1 What Thomas Friedman is referring to is globalization of our world with the advent of new technologies and communications. Gone are the barriers to collaboration as you can now reach out quickly and easily over waters, mountains and boarders to instantly get or send information, collaborate, or market. This leveling has occurred across many industries such as retail, communication and more…

Globalization can mean many things: internationalization, open borders, a process, an ideology, a phenomenon or an economist sees globalization as a step toward a fully integrated world market (Farazmand, 1999). In his book “The World Is Flat: A Brief History Of The Twenty-First Century,” Thomas L. Friedman spoke with David Rothkopf, a former Department of Commerce official, and he indicated globalization is a word used to describe the changing relationships between governments and big business…

discussion with an individual from India, the man explained to Friedman that the worldwide economy was being flattened and citizens of the United States were not prepared. The thought of the world leveling resonated in him and led to the start of Friedman’s new book titled “The World is Flat.” Throughout the video, Friedman describes thought-provoking topics of what the world has faced and what it is facing. In summary of Friedman’s new book he explained there are three different types of…

Connecting the Dots When I was little, the very first part of my activity book I would complete was every connect-the-dots picture. According to Thomas Friedman, in his book, The World is Flat, “connecting the dots” in education is one of the primary ways we can help our country compete in the new age of globalization. Many students in the Yakima Valley have long faced the daunting choice of either attending a vocational/tech school or going to community college. However, in our flattening…

In his article “It’s a Flat World, After All,” published in the New York Times in 2005, Thomas Friedman discusses how technology and globalization are rapidly allowing work to be done from anywhere in the world, reducing the West’s economic dominance. Furthermore, he characterizes globalization as an exhaustive and revolutionary transformation in which the entire globe becomes deeply and permanently interconnected. Friedman establishes that the world has been “flattened” as the result of…

Thomas L. Friedman in his book titled, “The World Is Flat” does not give a speculative preview of the wonders that are to come in our lifetime. But rather to get us caught on the wonders that are already here. That is, his view is that the world is not going to be flat; rather, it is already flat. In an own opinion, what he means by “flat” is the connectedness. For instance, the lowering of trade and political barriers together with the exponential technical developments made up of the…

Globalization is the description given to the linkage between countries around the world and how they’re becoming more connected economically and culturally. Globalization causes competition between companies within a country and international competition. Thomas L. Friedman, the author of, “The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century,” comes up with an analysis of modern-day globalization. The title, is more specifically a metaphor which Friedman came up with, after hearing…