[MGCR 331] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (38 pages long)

• School: McGill University
• Department: Management Core
• Course: MGCR 331
• Professor: Kartik Ganju

Document Summary

Integration of regional economies, societies and cultures through globe spanning networks of exchange. Enhances the value of information to the firm. Requires powerful information system responses to conduct trade and manage businesses on a global scale. It impact the change and the pace of change. 10 forces that created the leveled global economic playing field: fall of the berlin wall. Wall came down and windows came up (people start using computers: netscape goes public (first internet explorer) Netscape and the web broadened the audience for the internet. Everyday occurrences such as words, files, films, music and pictures could be accessed and manipulated on a computer screen by all people across the world: work-flow. Standards and technologies that allowed work to flow. Global platform for multiple forms of collaboration. 6 forms of collaboration that resulted from #3: uploading open sourcing. Communities uploading and collaborating on online projects. Wikipedia, open source software (share information with others: outsourcing.