Going Global

What is globalisation?

“The growing economic interdependence of countries worldwide through increasing volume and variety of cross border transactions in goods and services, freer international capital flows, and more rapid and widespread diffusion of technology”

Moving fromHere To Here

Factors :

Internet and Satellite Falling cost of

communicationCheap air travel, Cross-

border road and rail networks

English: international language of business

MONEY, GOODS and PEOPLE move more easily than ever before

A shrinking world A shrinking world

Stick this in !

Or should we be here…???

Few Examples :

Before we move on with “GOING GLOBAL” lets take few day to day examples , like :

TATA

McDonald’s

Starbucks

Walmart

Talking about TATATATA + CORUS (Takeover)

TATA + JAGUAR (Merger)

Here we note the presence of McD in three global core areas, and the lack of presence in Africa.

McDonald’s

Starbucks

The company is well established in USA and Japan, and trying to get global entering into the markets of different countries.

Walmart

Walmart is expanding using different techniques in different countries :

Global Groupings

Getting connected :

Global networks come in a variety of forms. They can be networks of:

Business and TradeCommunication

networksTransport networksProduction networks Political networksDemographic networks

Internet connectivity by connection density. Partly related to population density : partly to

level of development.

Internet Users in the world (By Geographical Regions)

Global Hubs: megacities and world cities :

‘Cores’ with intense connectivity

World Cities such as London and Tokyo.

Others have special attributes

Diverse populations with demographic

Flows of finance, trade and ideas, move towards them

Aircraft Departures 2006 Territory size shows the distribution of aircraft take-offs, measured

by the aircraft’s territory of registration.

• India still needs to work on improving its Air traffic • Africa has very few aircraft take-offs

The migration tide

30-40 million illegal migrants worldwide Refugees amount to 8-10 million 130 million economic migrants

Summary:

A process it continues to increase connectivityMegacities attract migrants, both rural-urban

ones and international onesIn turn globalization contributes to the ability

of people to migrate Despite globalization some people remain

disconnected