Effective management of information across time zones, supply chains and activities is the ‘next big thing’ in IT – and some companies are already getting to grips with it. Ruari McCallion reports
n his book The Global Economy and the Nation-State, published in 1997, the ‘guru of business gurus’, Peter F Drucker, said: “In a transnational company there is only one economic unit, the world.” That’s where the company sells, gets its supplies, undertakes planning and financing. Management is conducted in a world market and, while governments…
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