Best Practices in Global Supply Chain Management

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How do you expand your operations globally, while bringing your customers along for the adventurous ride?

Executives at Flextronics, Lubrizol and A. Schulman show you HOW.

Read the entire article: How to Manage a Global Supply Chain

Everything Global Mobile: mobiThinking

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Are you ready for the explosive growth in mobile?  If so, that means you have raised the bar to set new marketing standards for your global small business.

Read on to see how and what others are doing in the mobile space - from mobile sites to click-to-call campaigns -- get your global mobile marketing fix here.

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And while you are here, grab your insider's guide to mobile Web marketing:  France, Japan, Canada, Germany, USA, India, UK Australia, Spain, South Africa and Brazil here.

One of the Most Important Trends of Our Day: Globalization

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According to the article, Scholars, Spies, and Global Studies, globalization is one of the most important trends of our day.

As American universities expand their global footprint with branch campuses in Singapore, Abu Dhabi, and elsewhere, many faculty are concerned about oppressive governance, human-rights violations, and lack of academic freedom abroad. Meanwhile administrators grapple with how these new ventures—and globalization in general—will change teaching and research in the United States.

What does "global" really mean?

Find out here.

A Checklist for Hiring an Overseas Distributor

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How do you know for sure when you have found the perfect distributor?  The only way to find out is to ask a lot of questions – 50 to be exact.

Below we’ve created a checklist of all the questions you should ask to pre-screen overseas distributors. To better accommodate your needs organize the list any way you desire to.  Then print it out and take it with you the next time you interview a candidate.

Good luck.  And if we missed any questions, let us know!

Pre-Screening Overseas Distributors:  50 Questions to Ask

Globalization: Rule Breaker

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The world according to the many changes taking place, including globalization.

Until quite recently, globalization was seen as a one-way street. American companies, which led the charge four decades or so ago into growing global markets, were its ambassadors — and American workers, whose wages and upward mobility were flattened, were the victims. The core idea was that globalization, technological innovation and unfettered free trade would erase historical and geographic boundaries, making the world ever more economically interconnected and alike. (Foreign-affairs writer Tom Friedman famously shorthanded this notion with the title of his book The World Is Flat.)

Read the entire article here.

Related article:  Embrace Globalization!

The Attacks on Outsourcing

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Is there a policy on outsourcing?

Americans’ fear of foreign trade has grown sharply in the last 20 years, in tandem with a rising tide of globalization that has exposed American workers to overwhelming competition from laborers in developing countries. 

Is globalization good or bad?

Find out here.

Globalization in 2008