The ICT Impacts To The World (Part 2)

As I promised before, here I would like to share the other 5 from The Ten (10) Forces That Flattened The World, which taken from a book title The World Is Flat (Thomas L. Friedman):

6) Offshoring, by contrast to the outsourcing, is when a company taken one of its factories that is operating in the domestic/local country, and moves the whole factory offshore to the other country. These business practices getting actively in the business world since the December 11, 2011 when China formally joined the World Trade Organization (WTO). This means that Beijing agreed to follow the same global rules governing imports, export and foreign investments that most countries in the world were following. By doing offshoring, the factory will produces the very same product in the very same way, only with cheaper labor, lower taxes, subsidized energy and even lower health care costs.

7) Supply-Chaining is a method of collaborating horizontally among suppliers, retailers and customers to create additional value. Supply-chaining is both enabled by the flattening of the world because the more these supply chains grow and proliferate, the more they force the adoption of common standards between companies that can interface with others. Then, the companies will eliminate points of fractions so they become more efficient among each other and finally they will encourage global collaboration.

8)  Insourcing, is also one of a whole new form of collaboration and creating value horizontally. Compared to the Supply-Chaining which normally involved big companies, insourcing suitable for the smaller company. These small companies saw a lot of places where they could sell their goods/services, manufacture their goods or buy their raw materials in a more efficient manner. The best example is the UPS company that will go to the bigger company, analyze the manufacturing, packaging and delivery processes, and the design , redesign and manage the whole company's global supply chain. Just like when UPS will pick up breakdown Toshiba computer, the UPS will repair it and send it right back to the Toshiba customers.

9) In-Forming is the individual's personal analog to uploading, outsourcing, insourcing, supply-chaining and offshoring. In-Forming is the ability to build and deploy your own personal supply chain such as a supply chain of information, knowledge and entertainment. In-forming is about self collaboration when you becoming your own self-directed and self-empowered researcher, editor and selector of entertainment. In-forming is searching for knowledge, normally using Google, Yahoo and Microsoft (MSN Search) or any search engine that available.

10) Digital, Mobile, Personal and Virtual where Digital explained that majority of current jobs can be digitized and therefore can be shaped, manipulated and transmitted over computer. By virtual, the process of shaping, manipulating and transmitting this digitized content can be done at very high speed using underlying digital pipes, protocols and standards. By mobile, through the wireless technology, all of the jobs can be done from anywhere, with anyone, through any device and can be taken anywhere. And by personal, its means that it can be done by you, just for you, on your own device.

Credit to the Thomas L. Friedman.