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World Flatteners Jennifer Carter Impact of Technology IET 600

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World Flatteners Jennifer Carter Impact of Technology IET 600

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    1. World Flatteners Jennifer Carter Impact of Technology IET 600 Three factors that flattened the world derived from the book entitled The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman

    2. Three Factors that Flattened the World Work-flow Software (Flattener #3) Standards and Protocols Supply-Chaining (Flattener #7) Wal-mart and Others (but mostly Wal-mart) In-forming (Flattener #9) Search Engines

    3. Work Flow Software (Flattener #3) Standards, Protocols and Transmission lines These Protocols allowed people to exchange things other than standardized Word documents or email. They enabled anyone to describe any kind of document they wantedand transport it from machine to machine, and put it in front of your face, without any prior understanding or preparation between the person sending it and the person receiving it. (Friedman, p. 81) Key Idea This work flow software did not magically appear, however it seems as if it did. Friedman remarks on page 78 that the rise and integration of work flow software was a quiet revolution that most people had no clue was happening. If you think back when you first began to use a computer, did you have the ability to create a document and send it to your buddy located in a different state? Was the internet available? Where you clearly aware of the fact that software was allowing you to create and transport data?Key Idea This work flow software did not magically appear, however it seems as if it did. Friedman remarks on page 78 that the rise and integration of work flow software was a quiet revolution that most people had no clue was happening. If you think back when you first began to use a computer, did you have the ability to create a document and send it to your buddy located in a different state? Was the internet available? Where you clearly aware of the fact that software was allowing you to create and transport data?

    4. Work Flow Software (Flattener #3) Standards, Protocols and Transmission lines HTML a standard in which data is written to communicate with other computers HTTP a standard in which data is written that allows it to travel the internet TCP/IP a standard that transports data to any computer via the internet XML & SOAP together are a standard which allows for the transfer of formatted data or documents between any two computer programs HTML (hypertext mark-up language) enabled anyone to design and publish documents and data so that they could be transmitted to, and rely on, any computer anywhere. (Friedman, p.81) HTTP (hypertext protocol) is the computer language that describes how to put the content that has been written with HTML on the Internet. TCP/IP (transmission control protocol/Internet protocol) is the transmission line and form in which the data travels from one location to another. XML (extensible markup language) is the language used to write a document and have the ability to transport through all types of software SOAP (simple object access protocol) is a stand protocol that allows objects to transport from one type of software to another. Example would be taking a picture and transporting it from your camera software to a picture manager software. HTML (hypertext mark-up language) enabled anyone to design and publish documents and data so that they could be transmitted to, and rely on, any computer anywhere. (Friedman, p.81) HTTP (hypertext protocol) is the computer language that describes how to put the content that has been written with HTML on the Internet. TCP/IP (transmission control protocol/Internet protocol) is the transmission line and form in which the data travels from one location to another. XML (extensible markup language) is the language used to write a document and have the ability to transport through all types of software SOAP (simple object access protocol) is a stand protocol that allows objects to transport from one type of software to another. Example would be taking a picture and transporting it from your camera software to a picture manager software.

    5. Work Flow Software (Flattener #3) Standardized Business PayPal is a system in which money is transferred from customer to customer AJAX is a technique that allows for all standard business processing to be done on the Internet Business Web is a term coined to represent the action of doing sophisticated business via the Internet PayPal can be used by buyer-seller via the internet. PayPal is an online account equipped with your name, email address, credit card information and billing address. NOTE: Does this raise a red flag to anyone? What security methods do they use? This is one of eBays major payment methods. AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) coding which allows you to seamlessly keep track of inventory, customer communication, recruiting, project management, product development, scheduling, budgeting, and human resources at very low cost. Business Web software potentially will replace the software you have on your computer to manage your business now such as Quicken. An example provided by Friedman on page 87 is Salesforce.com. Salesforce.com is supplying traditional software programs via the internet and you, the business, just tap into them when you need them. The big difference as Ray Ozzie explains is that all the tools you are using from management tools, photos to data, are not stored on your computer (therefore not taking up immense amounts of space), but stored remotely on the Salesforce.com platform. NOTE: Does this raise a red flag to anyone? I would like someone to express their feelings about this. Would you feel comfortable using a service such as Salesforce.comPayPal can be used by buyer-seller via the internet. PayPal is an online account equipped with your name, email address, credit card information and billing address.NOTE: Does this raise a red flag to anyone? What security methods do they use? This is one of eBays major payment methods. AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) coding which allows you to seamlessly keep track of inventory, customer communication, recruiting, project management, product development, scheduling, budgeting, and human resources at very low cost. Business Web software potentially will replace the software you have on your computer to manage your business now such as Quicken. An example provided by Friedman on page 87 is Salesforce.com. Salesforce.com is supplying traditional software programs via the internet and you, the business, just tap into them when you need them. The big difference as Ray Ozzie explains is that all the tools you are using from management tools, photos to data, are not stored on your computer (therefore not taking up immense amounts of space), but stored remotely on the Salesforce.com platform. NOTE: Does this raise a red flag to anyone? I would like someone to express their feelings about this. Would you feel comfortable using a service such as Salesforce.com

    6. Work Flow Software (Flattener #3) How has this flattened the world? Work Flow Software has provided everyone across the globe to communicate not only documents and pictures, but the entire business process. A company can be comprised of many different people located in any corner of the world and ran entirely via the internet; SEAMLESSLY. Think: How has workflow software effected your life personally or on a business level? In our case it certainly helps with school! This project is a prime example. We could not produce our ppt and/or post it to blackboard with work flow software.Think: How has workflow software effected your life personally or on a business level? In our case it certainly helps with school! This project is a prime example. We could not produce our ppt and/or post it to blackboard with work flow software.

    7. Supply-Chaining (Flattener #7) Wal-Mart and others Wal-Mart today is the biggest retail company in the world, and it does not make a single thing (Friedman, p. 152) Q: So, how can Wal-Mart be the largest retail company in the world and not even make a product? A: Its because Wal-Mart provides a service that is far superior to other retail companies with a competitive advantage that cant be touched. Q: How do they do that? A: By making sure the customer gets what they want, when they want it, while providing the lowest cost to the customer and maintaining a profit margin that is driven by volume.Q: So, how can Wal-Mart be the largest retail company in the world and not even make a product? A: Its because Wal-Mart provides a service that is far superior to other retail companies with a competitive advantage that cant be touched. Q: How do they do that? A: By making sure the customer gets what they want, when they want it, while providing the lowest cost to the customer and maintaining a profit margin that is driven by volume.

    8. Supply-Chaining (Flattener #7) Wal-Mart (2 basic challenges) Global optimization The total cost of delivering all parts on time from all fours corners of the globe to your factories or retail outlets has to be low (Friedman p.153) Supply and Demand Innovation is happening much faster, and so products go in and out of fashion much quicker (Friedman, p. 153) Key points: it doesnt matter if you get one part cheaper in one place (Friedman, p. 153) Coordinating disruption-prone supply with hard-to-predict demand As innovation speeds up fashion and trends become more dynamic. Replace inventory with information (pioneered by Wal-Mart), that is, speedy communication amongst customers (via statistical analysis) and request from suppliers to get what it is that the customer truly wants. Example: Story of hurricanes, beer and pop tarts. Statistics show that these are the items being purchased during hurricane warning. Give the Customer what they want and sales sky-rocket. Key points: it doesnt matter if you get one part cheaper in one place (Friedman, p. 153) Coordinating disruption-prone supply with hard-to-predict demand As innovation speeds up fashion and trends become more dynamic. Replace inventory with information (pioneered by Wal-Mart), that is, speedy communication amongst customers (via statistical analysis) and request from suppliers to get what it is that the customer truly wants. Example: Story of hurricanes, beer and pop tarts. Statistics show that these are the items being purchased during hurricane warning. Give the Customer what they want and sales sky-rocket.

    9. Supply-Chaining (Flattener #7) Dell and Zara Dell makes exactly the number of computers that customers want, each one exactly the way the customers wants it. (Friedman, p. 155) Zara implements a strategy known as postponement in which they are able to postpone design decisions to incorporate up-to-the minute results from its stores. (Friedman, p. 154) The method that Dell uses is very much like the just in time method many other manufactures use however the product in this case is always different because it is a custom item. However many components of a computer are standard. So Dell has the basic supplies and then customizes the computer to the customers needs. As Friedman points out from his interview with Yossi Sheffi of MIT(p.155), Dell can get stuck with parts bought on spec, but each part can be used in many configurations so it is likely to be used sooner or later. Zara spends heavily on sophisticated information technology, including PDAs with transmission capabilities for all store managers to monitor customer preference and then send data directly to a central planning office. (p.154) Wow, if you stop and think about what this really means its amazing. Zara must have a heck of a system. They have the ability to use at the moment sales information from its retail stores to make design decision on products that will be on the shelf in about a month! The examples provided in this section referring 9/11 and the somber mood of the nation and its effect on the color scheme of the product line is, in my opinion, phenomenal. They can give the customer what they want from scratch, in just a couple of weeks. This is different compared to Wal-Marts stock of beer and pop tarts during a Hurricane because those product are already being manufactured; the product didnt change, just the demand amount increased. Zara is changing the manufacturing design in just a couple of weeks! The method that Dell uses is very much like the just in time method many other manufactures use however the product in this case is always different because it is a custom item. However many components of a computer are standard. So Dell has the basic supplies and then customizes the computer to the customers needs. As Friedman points out from his interview with Yossi Sheffi of MIT(p.155), Dell can get stuck with parts bought on spec, but each part can be used in many configurations so it is likely to be used sooner or later. Zara spends heavily on sophisticated information technology, including PDAs with transmission capabilities for all store managers to monitor customer preference and then send data directly to a central planning office. (p.154) Wow, if you stop and think about what this really means its amazing. Zara must have a heck of a system. They have the ability to use at the moment sales information from its retail stores to make design decision on products that will be on the shelf in about a month! The examples provided in this section referring 9/11 and the somber mood of the nation and its effect on the color scheme of the product line is, in my opinion, phenomenal. They can give the customer what they want from scratch, in just a couple of weeks. This is different compared to Wal-Marts stock of beer and pop tarts during a Hurricane because those product are already being manufactured; the product didnt change, just the demand amount increased. Zara is changing the manufacturing design in just a couple of weeks!

    10. Supply-Chaining (Flattener #7) How has this flattened the world? Supply-Chaining has flattened the world by providing extreme in-the-now necessities and wants. Wal-Mart along with Dell and Zara have provided the masses with what they want when they want it. This goes for anyone across the globe. If you have the money they have what you want and ship it where you want it. What would you do without Wal-Mart. Imagine if Morehead had no Wal-Mart and we had to depend on the local drug store for your prescription and your shampoo. Would it really be that bad? Would we have everything we need and what would we have to pay for it? Now that you have thought about that think about what it pays the actual workers making the products that Wal-Mart buys. Do we really know the conditions in which our hair brushes are made? Do we care? How do these ideas fit into the ethics of globalization?What would you do without Wal-Mart. Imagine if Morehead had no Wal-Mart and we had to depend on the local drug store for your prescription and your shampoo. Would it really be that bad? Would we have everything we need and what would we have to pay for it? Now that you have thought about that think about what it pays the actual workers making the products that Wal-Mart buys. Do we really know the conditions in which our hair brushes are made? Do we care? How do these ideas fit into the ethics of globalization?

    11. In-forming (Flattener #9) Search Engines Google is like God. God is wireless, God is everywhere, and God sees everything. (Friedman, p.186) Powerful statement made by Alan Cohen, VP of Airespace, a wireless technology manufacturer. What topics do you use Google to search that you couldnt research at the library?Powerful statement made by Alan Cohen, VP of Airespace, a wireless technology manufacturer. What topics do you use Google to search that you couldnt research at the library?

    12. In-forming (Flattener #9) Search Engines Informing is the individuals personal analog to uploading, outsourcing, insourcing, supply-chaining and off shoring. (Friedman, p. 179) Google, Yahoo, and MSN Web Search The easier and more accurate searching becomes the more global Googles user vase becomes and the more powerful a flattener it becomes. (Larry Page, Google Cofounder) (Friedman, p. 179) Key Quotes: We dont discriminate only to the degree that if you can't use a computer or don't have access to one, you cant use Google, but other than that you can use Google. (CEO Eric Schmidt) (Friedman, p. 178-9) Its just that easy. The quotes in the slide can be summarized as: Essentially, informing is the means by which uploading, outsourcing, insourcing, supply-chaining, and off shoring are possible on a personal level. We can gather information and buy-sell-trade with expertise using search engines. Also, this thing (the Internet) is growing nearly exponentially, and the better the search ability becomes (i.e. the more accurate and complete sources become) the more powerful a flattener it becomes because there is no bias found, the information is presented to anyone. Q: This sounds so great, can this be a bad thing? A: Yes and no. No the technology is never bad, but yes, the user may have ill-intent. The book provides the counterexamples of losing basic privacy and knowing when a convicted sex offender moves into the neighborhood. Where is the line drawn? Thats up for you to decide.Key Quotes: We dont discriminate only to the degree that if you can't use a computer or don't have access to one, you cant use Google, but other than that you can use Google. (CEO Eric Schmidt) (Friedman, p. 178-9) Its just that easy. The quotes in the slide can be summarized as: Essentially, informing is the means by which uploading, outsourcing, insourcing, supply-chaining, and off shoring are possible on a personal level. We can gather information and buy-sell-trade with expertise using search engines. Also, this thing (the Internet) is growing nearly exponentially, and the better the search ability becomes (i.e. the more accurate and complete sources become) the more powerful a flattener it becomes because there is no bias found, the information is presented to anyone. Q: This sounds so great, can this be a bad thing? A: Yes and no. No the technology is never bad, but yes, the user may have ill-intent. The book provides the counterexamples of losing basic privacy and knowing when a convicted sex offender moves into the neighborhood. Where is the line drawn? Thats up for you to decide.

    13. In-forming (Flattener #9) Better Search Engines Google now employs scores of mathematicians working on its search algorithms, in an effort to always keep them one step more relevant that the competition (Friedman, p.181) Key Idea: Yeah, they do this for competition. However it is competition for a reason and that is because it is important. Friedman provides an example of how important the research done by persons using a search engine can be, and that is someone in a life-and-death situation. Think of it, now you may be able to save yourself because you know in an instant what may be wrong with you. Also with that search engine you can quickly find the phone number of the nearest hospital or ambulance to alert for help. Key Idea: Yeah, they do this for competition. However it is competition for a reason and that is because it is important. Friedman provides an example of how important the research done by persons using a search engine can be, and that is someone in a life-and-death situation. Think of it, now you may be able to save yourself because you know in an instant what may be wrong with you. Also with that search engine you can quickly find the phone number of the nearest hospital or ambulance to alert for help.

    14. In-forming (Flattener #9) How has this flattened the world? The Search Engine has been a monster flattener since it has brought anyone with access to the Internet in touch with any topic they could possibly desire. It doesnt matter who you are or where you are as long as you have the INTERNET! Dang that INTERNET! Now we cant live without it!!!!Dang that INTERNET! Now we cant live without it!!!!

    15. The World has been flattened in part by Work Flow Software such as HTML, HTTP, TCP/IP, XML, and SOAP Supply-Chains such as Wal-Mart providing a massive variety of goods at the lowest price possible and In-forming in which anyone can research anything that they desire I hope you enjoyed my presentation of three flatteners of todays world

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