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The Age of Micro-Multinational Companies

May 22, 2014 By Bennett Voyles

Low communication costs and improved access to global markets for talent, supply chain requirements and customers is paving the way for micro-multinational companies. In the old days, startups were usually formed by people who’d known each other for a long time–relatives, professional colleagues, or old school chums–a small team that got together and created something […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Digital Economy, eCommerce, Supply Chain, Talent Tagged With: eBay, eCommerce, Google, Hal Varian, IT, labor market, Micro-multinational, MNCs, Multinational Company, Skype, Slider, Telecommunications

The Future of Work: Hello robot, goodbye worker

May 31, 2012 By Bennett Voyles

How will the progress of IT and automation change the future of work? In 1988, Harvard Business School Professor Shoshana Zuboff predicted that the working world was on the verge of a revolution in which many jobs would be “informated”-automated and computerized in ways that would greatly extend human capacities even as it dumbs-down the […]

Filed Under: 2012, All Articles, Connections, Digital Economy, Emerging Economies, Employment, Finance, Innovation, Know China, Manufacturing, Technology Tagged With: Automation, Foxconn, Hal Varian, Internet of Things, Labor, Manufacturing, Robotics

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