The World Is Flat/Thomas Friedman Notes: Pages 91-129

Page 91 Novell-distributor of Linux – a commercial software company…have to start operating further up the software stack to differentiate themselves. The open source community is basically focusing on infrastructure.

92 The way to compete against that…is to all become winner

112 I have to make money for my investors faster, so what can be outsourced must be sourced.

113 Fortune favors the prepared mind.

123 According to the U.S. Commerce Department, nearly 90 percent of the output from U.S. –owned offshore factories is sole to foreign consumers. Actually stimulates American exports. …studies indicating that every dollar a company invests overseas in an offshore factory yields additional exports for its home country, because roughly one-third of global trade today is within multi-national companies.

123 little attention is paid to the huge amount of offshore investment coming into American every year, because foreigners want access to American markets and labor.

129 Supply-chaining is a method of collaboration horizontally-amount suppliers, retailers, and customers—to create value. Supply-chaining is both enabled by the flattening of the world and a hugely important fattener itself.