HIST 1500 Lecture Notes - Ooda Loop, Saudi Aramco, Industrial Policy
29 Apr 2013
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Greater transborder data flow, greater international trade, etc. Other contributions to the start of globalization: it technology. Microprocessor speed and miniaturization were also important: the government invested in these innovations, industrial policy: government financing of technology, the internet also helped push the it revolution. Came from arpanet: satellites, all of these things constituted a communications infrastructure that allows information to immediately travel across borders. Labor strategies were also important in globalization (outsourcing, etc). Vertical integration: jit just in time. Edwards dimmings engineer during wwii, expert on mfg. The govt hired him to make mfg more efficient in this country. He went to japan and he became the manufacturing guru for japan, helping them exponentially. He taught them to focus on quality, not quantity to save money. By 1970s, the us auto industry was interested in talking to dimmings for help.
