ABSTRACT
Due to developments in information and transportation technology, the world is getting
smaller. One can fly from one part of the world to the other in less than half a day. Sometimes
one can learn what happens in Tokyo faster than most people in Japan, since one can access the
Internet and read the news online. This changing world creates many astonishing phenomena
in the daily life, offers a lot of opportunities in business, and impacts the way an enterprise is
run. In The World Is Flat [Friedman05], by Thomas L. Friedman, the changing world is
described thus: the great reduction of trade and political barriers and current advances in the
digital revolution have made it possible to do business, develop a new product, or almost
anything else, instantaneously with almost any other people across the world.
