...27 AUG 14 English 106 1700 The Indians are Coming for America In the essay “While I was Sleeping” by Thomas L. Friedman, he made a very strong argument (figuratively) that the world is becoming flat. After reading this essay, one really has no choice but to agree. The essay was written fairly recently due to the fact that he mentions very current technology in this essay. Mr. Friedman said “I just want to understand why Indians were taking Americans work and why they have become such an important pool for outsourcing Americans work” (626). It is obvious that he is somewhat warning the American culture, young and middle aged. The world really is flat in regards to technology, the economy, and our ever changing cultures. Thomas L. Friedman’s argument in this essay is that the world is flattening. He starts with the setting on a golf course in Bangalore, India. Bangalore is the home of the modern world’s most advanced technology. The author kept comparing his journey to Bangalore, to the journeys of Christopher Columbus. As we all know Christopher Columbus set out to find a more direct way to India and to prove that the world was round. The author of this essay uses the modern world of technology and its recent advances to prove that the world is in fact flat and that everyone needs to be ready to except significant changes to our culture and power as we know it. Through the help of interviews with the CEO of Infosys Technologies Limited, he supports the fact that...
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...The Impact Of Outsourcing On General Electric Commerce Essay The report aims to highlight the impact outsourcing has had on General Electric Company. This paper analyzed GE’s decision to have multiple outsourcing partnerships. The paper also discusses the impact that outsourcing will have on US economy in general. The first part of the paper reveals how outsourcing has led GE to be a cost efficient, productive and profitable company. The findings outlined factors such as the success of GE Real Estate in Mexico. It also outlined GE’s successful steps in India in order to source products, services, and intellectual talent from India for its global businesses. The next section of the paper discusses GE’s decision to have multiple outsourcing partnerships. It discusses the strategies of successful multiple outsourcing and consolidated it with GE’s steps of outsourcing its businesses in different countries. In the last section the report elaborates different impact will outsourcing have on US economy. It contrasted the brighter side of outsourcing such as $100 worth of work sent abroad by U.S. companies; $130 to $145 will be reinvested in the U.S. economy. It also reveals the downside as it discusses how sending jobs abroad can affect American job market. 1.0 Introduction 1.1 Background General Electric is a diversified technology, media and financial services company focused on solving some of the world's toughest problems. With products and services ranging from aircraft engines...
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...Globalization Argumentative Paper Armando Montero PHL/320 5/16/2016 Todd Goodling Globalization Argumentative Paper Globalization is the tendency of businesses, technologies, or philosophies to spread throughout the world, or the process of making this happen. The global economy is sometimes referred to as a globality, characterized as a totally interconnected marketplace, unhampered by time zones or national boundaries. This term as based on business can be defined as; the process of extending to other parts of the world to develop an increasingly integrated global economy by using free trade, free flow of capital, and utilization of cheaper foreign labor markets. Globalization can be good for business because it can make operating in foreign markets more efficient. It is also beneficial because it raises a business’s profits in other parts of the world. (1, Premise) Businesses will be able to communicate more effectively and efficiently, if they are working in an open market. Globalization directly effects the administrative, economic, and geographical system that is in place with the nations in an effective way. Today’s business era is far more challenging and competitive, and although it is more difficult, globalization is still one of the most important components to the economic, administrative, and geographical sectors. It also provides effective business with the nations in an effective and...
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...Prof. Sapozhnikov Response Essay July 23, 2009 The Negative Outcome of Outsourcing As I stroll around my residence, I hear words like “globalization” and “outsourcing”, while whiteness the diversity of the population within my community. It is difficult not to see products that weren’t manufactured in China, Thailand, Japan, and other countries around the world. During Early America, outsourcing of jobs for production was once not a problem and not as prevalent as it is today. As early as the American Industrial Revolution and the shift to a capitalistic society, American workers had to sell their labor in order to make a wage for their survival. As time progressed, many rules and regulations were required for the operation of the factories in order to ensure a safe working environment and conditions for the employees. Although the government came up with labor laws, deceitful employers found alternative ways to exploit their workers to make a profit. It is possible to explore a variety of different sources and see that employers in the 21st century still use tactics by which exploit American employees by using outsourcing as a means to increase their profits. In the article “New Threat to Skilled U.S. Workers”, Froma Harrop raises awareness of the problematic issue concerning the outsourcing of American jobs to other countries. To begin the article, Harrop makes references to Princeton economist Alan Blinder and Ron Hira, a professor of public policy at the Rochester...
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... With such a fast growing economy, it is important to have a solid and effective IT infrastructure. In this essay, I will speak about the restructuring of the Brazilian IT governance and the decisions made to ensure the best outcome in this process. 1. What events lead up to the need for an evaluation of IT governance within the Brazilian government? Events that lead to the need for an evaluation of IT Governance within the Brazilian government were the fact that there was an increasing need for business integration. That business integration can only be achieved by aligning with IT services. By doing this, value will be created while reducing costs. Information technology is the largest capital expense that contributes to a correctly managed firm and allows the organization to effectively achieve its business goals. This is necessary to standardize business and customer needs and for the progression of the country. 2. Why had the Brazilian government outsourced so much of their IT operations? What are the reasons for outsourcing, and what are the disadvantages and consequences of overusing outsourcing in either the public or private sector? There are many reasons why an organization would outsource some of its responsibilities to another country. The question to ask is if the return outweighs the risk of the investment. America outsources a lot of its production to Brazil to be manufactured. As a child, everything seemed to be “made in Brazil”...
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...Module #1 Synthesis essay #1 – Loyalty in the Workplace There was a time in America where you could reasonably assume that if you were a show up every day and not rock the boat kind of employee, you could have a long, healthy career working for only one company. At the beginning part or the 20th century, with the obvious exceptions of the great wars and the great depression, it was unusual for a working adult in this country to have more than a few entries on their resume. Part of this is due to according to The Center for Disease Control in the “CIA World Fact Book, 2008” in 1900 the average lifespan was 47 years vs. 77 years today. People were very proud of their jobs and extremely loyal to there employers. The trades even more so that other types of employment stemming from traditions of indentured apprenticeships that had their roots in Europe. Today according to The Bureau of Labor Statistics “ Employee Tenure Summary” the average time an employee stays with a company is 4.6 years. In her article “Job Hopping is the “New Normal” for Millennials” Jeanine Meister estimates workers born between 1977 and 1997 will have between 15 and 20 jobs over the course of their career. Employers have become a disposable commodity to the Workforce. As evidenced by the WorkspanTV Organizational Culture Video, organizations are increasingly aware of this dilemma and trying to combat the current trend through indoctrination into a prefabricated value system. Total immersion in a micro...
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...locations where labor and healthcare costs are low, and sell the finished goods in nations where wages are high. With the exception of the United States, almost all wealthy nations provide universal health care. These provisions are challenging due to increasing costs, as well as social, political, economic, and cultural environments. Globalization of Health Care Numerous global industries have resulted in offshore operations; the medical industry has become not dissimilar. With modern developments in technology in recent years, outsourcing of medical procedures has become a reality. The internet has vastly expanded the realm of possibilities for the medical industry, and has made it possible to transmit large amounts of information to countries; such as India, where it is then processed and returned. The United States has some of the highest costs for medical care globally; which has led to its’ citizens to search for economic alternatives. Outsourcing medical procedures to medical professionals in nations with lesser pay would undoubtedly benefit consumers; however, the United States holds a higher standard of care than those where treatment standards may not take precedence. This process would then take some control out of the hands of consumers. An article produced by the Dean of Harvard School of Public Health states, “careful regulations on access to prescription antibiotic drugs in one country, for example, may be subverted when its neighbors allow the unrestricted purchase...
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...critical thinking #2 The Impact on Wealth Growth from Globalization There are a lot of concerns for today’s economy. One of them being wealth distribution. There is the poor, middle class, and the rich. It is evident from the graph shown that the poor are getting richer, the rich are getting richer, and the middle class is getting poorer. So, what is the cause of this? The big answer economist will say is “It Depends”. It depends what factor you look at because there are many. The one I want to focus on is globalization. Is globalization a factor in wealth growth? How is it a factor? Is globalization positive or negative for wealth growth? If anything, what should be done? These are all the question I will try my best to answer in this essay. Globalization VS Wealth Growth Back to the previous question, does globalization effect wealth growth? My answer is, yes. It absolutely effects wealth growth for all nations. Globalization effects a lot of economic studies. For an explanation, let me first define globalization. TechTarget.com defines Globalization as the tendency of businesses, technologies, or philosophies to spread throughout the world, or the process of making this happen. The global economy is sometimes referred to as a globality, characterized as a totally interconnected marketplace, unhampered by time zones or national boundaries. There are probably different ways globalization effects but, I want to look at the business portion of globalization. Every big corporation...
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...domestic ideals is a realist one. One of President Bush’s main points in his talk with President Hu was that of the faulty Chineese products, but this only masked what were perhaps Bush’s real intentions for the meeting. Human rights and freedoms for the Chinese people was the real adgenda. America has always taken the position that the kinds of lives we lead and the freedoms we enjoy could work for everybody. But it is almost the very opposite. In a liberalist world (that is one dominated by liberalist policies and consequently “the west”) Samuel Huntingdon points out in his Essay The Clash of Civilizations, that conflict will arise because of culture clashes. It has been evident throughout history that China has had a turbulent past with many rebellions and has had a need for a strong government. Having a strong government wracked with past revoloutions leads to a cutback of civil rights and personal freedoms, promoting realist ideals. Enter president Bush, leader of one of the most powerful countries in the world, in which history and patriotism lead to the rights and freedoms that America was founded on in 1776. Keeping that in mind, it seems almost impossible for America to sway China in its domestic policies and human rights because they simply have different values and lead totally foreign lives to that of one another. If President Bush were to make a real push for what...
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...Challenge, globalization is movement of “natural resources, trade goods, human labor, financial capital, information, and infectious diseases” from one are to another (Haviland, 2008). In this essay, globalization will look at westernized countries and their affect on non-westernized countries. One example of globalization is the oil industry in Nigeria. In 1956, western company Shell-BP discovered oil in the Niger Delta. This discovery led to a rapid boom of oil production and revenue, with money supplying both the western oil companies as well as Nigerian Government (Nicely, 2014). Before discovery of oil, Nigeria was an agriculture country, whose main source of income came from farm and crops grown in tropical to semitropical climates (Nigeria, 2015). Now, after years of oil production, Nigeria’s agriculture is no longer at the forefront, with oil production now the largest source of revenue (Economy, 2008). With this increased oil production, other issues have risen. Pollution, health problems, and political unrest are just some of the issues to have taken over Nigeria after oil was discovered (Nicely, 2014). Another example of globalization of western culture to the east is call centers immerging in India. Western businesses such as credit card companies or banks are outsourcing jobs in places like India to lower pay costs. What might be an unlivable wage to an American is still a very decent income to an Indian, and therefore Indians take call center jobs without complaint...
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...continue to be imitated by aspiring economies in the developing world and particularly in Africa! The term ‘The BRICS’ was first quoted in Goldman Sachs report which was published in 2001, this term is an acronym for the emerging developing countries which are Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (Wilson & Purushothaman, 2003, p. 2). In the last decade, these countries have been successful in the global economy and many developing countries across the world, predominately Africa are trying to emulate this success. The essay will show a brief overview of how successful the BRICS have become, once these reasons are established, the essay will focus on the core part of the question which is providing evidence showing how the developing world but in particular Africa are imitating the success of the BRICS. Finally the essay will finish with a conclusion which will summarise the main points which have been explained and discussed throughout the essay. The BRICS have been successful in the last decade, but forecasters believe that by 2050, the BRICs could become a very important source of new global spending and by the year 2032 Japan’s economy would become smaller that India’s and USA’s economy could shrink below China’s economy by the year 2041. If the BRICS combined their economies together, it would be larger than the G6 (Japan, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, United States) by the 2039 (Wilson & Purushothaman, 2003, p. 3). Originally the term was the BRIC, however...
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...Network Security In Business Process Outsourcing Information Technology Essay The issue of information security and data privacy is assuming tremendous importance among global organizations, particularly in an environment marked by computer virus and terrorist attacks, hackings and destruction of vital data owing to natural disasters. The worldwide trend towards offshore outsourcing of processes and IT services to remote destinations, leading to the placing of valuable data and information infrastructure in the hands of the service providers, is also creating the need for information security solutions that will protect customers' information assets. As crucial information of a financial, insurance, medical and personal nature begins to get handled by remotely located offshore outsourcing service providers, there is a growing concern about the manner in which it is being collected, stored and utilized. Components of security The concept of information security is centered around the following components: · Integrity: gathering and maintaining accurate information and avoiding malicious modification · Availability: providing access to the information when and where desired · Confidentiality: avoiding disclosure to unauthorized or unwanted persons. Indian IT and ITES-BPO service providers today have the responsibility of not just protecting their own internal information, but also that of their customers, who trust them with crucial organizational data. A service providers own...
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...Essay mill From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia An essay mill (also term paper mill) is a resource that allows customers to purchase an original piece of writing on a particular topic. Customers provide the company with specific information about the essay, including: a page length, a general topic, and a time frame with which to work. The customer is then charged a certain amount for each page. [1] Contents [hide] 1 History 2 Products and services 3 Legal status 4 Criticism and controversy 5 Strategies for combating academic fraud 6 See also 7 Further reading 8 References History[edit] The ideology behind term paper mills can be dated back to the mid-nineteenth century in which "paper reservoirs" were located in the basements of Fraternity Houses. Otherwise known as "Fraternity files". these essay banks were practices in which students shared term papers and submitted work that had been done by other students.[2] These essay banks inspired the commercialization of ghostwritten essay-writing practices. As early as the 1950s, advertisements were circulating college campus that described services that included ghostwritten work for dissertations, theses, and term papers.[2] In conjunction with this practice, the changing attitudes of students in the 1960s and 1970s started to stray away from diligent and engaged course work because they saw an emphasis on the benefits of community involvement. A new focus on activities outside of the classroom took away from...
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...Managing Operations Introduction The report will start with definition of operations management concept. This will be followed by identifying some of the global factors affecting operations management in organisations and the impact such factors have on operations management in organisations and to assess how operations management can contribute to sustainable business activities . The second part of the report will describe how project management techniques contribute to the development of operations management and how project management techniques can be used to improvements the management of business operation in a multinational organisation. The effectiveness of business operations to organisational goal of Shell Petroleum will be discussed As operation management entails risk, the risk management techniques that can be applied to the management of a business operations (Shell Petroleum) and how to evaluate the risk to business operations in global markets will be discussed. How risk to Shell Petroleum operations be minimised for a business functioning in a global market will be discussed The technological infrastructure that supports operations management of Shell Petroleum will be identified and the contribution of information technology to it operations management will be analysed. The benefits to operational management of implementing technical solutions will also be analysed . The contribution of information technology to operations management of...
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...Analysis Of Scientific Glass Inventory Management Finance EssayAnalysis Of Scientific Glass Inventory Management Finance Essay The products of Scientific Glass include customized and specialized glassware for a variety of organizations such as pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, research labs, quality-control sites and testing facilities. By January 2010, a substantial increase in their inventory balances tied up the capital needed for investment for expansion. The debt-to-capital ratio exceeded the 40% target preventing the company to use their capital in other areas. Also the shipping costs were rising, competitive pressures were speeding up, and certain markets in North America and Europe were becoming saturated which underscored the necessity for capital investment for expanding market opportunities in Latin America and Asia. Moreover, expanding warehousing network increased the inventory levels along with costs, documentation complexities and errors. The company hired a new Manager of Inventory Planning, Ava Beane, to come up with an effective plan to manage SG’ s inventory without requiring a large capital investment. In order to finance operations in year 2010, SG requires an external funding of $53.8 million. These expenses would further limit the company to use their existing capital in other areas such as research and development and expanding to international markets. To improve customer service levels, SG had increased the target customer fill rate to 99% and added...
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