1. Going Global

2. 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”

3. Moving from
Here To Here

4. Factors :
 Internet and Satellite
 Falling cost of communication
 Cheap air travel, Cross-border
road and rail networks
 English: international
language of business
 MONEY, GOODS and
PEOPLE move more easily
than ever before

5. A shrinking
A shrinking world
world
Stick this in !
Or should we be here…???

6. Few Examples :
 Before we move on with “GOING GLOBAL” lets
take few day to day examples , like :
 TATA
 McDonald‟s
 Starbucks
 Walmart

7. Talking about TATA
TATA + CORUS (Takeover)

8. TATA + JAGUAR (Merger)

9. McDonald’s
 Here we note the presence of McD in three global core areas, and
the lack of presence in Africa.

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

11. Walmart
 Walmart is expanding using different techniques in different countries
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12. Global Groupings

13. Getting connected :
Global networks come in a
variety of forms. They can
be networks of:
 Business and Trade
 Communication networks
 Transport networks
 Production networks
 Political networks
 Demographic networks

14.  Internet connectivity by connection density.
 Partly related to population density : partly to level of
development.

15. Internet Users in the world (By
Geographical Regions)

16. 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

17. 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

18. The migration tide
 30-40 million illegal migrants worldwide
 Refugees amount to 8-10 million
 130 million economic migrants

19. Summary:
 A process it continues to increase connectivity
 Megacities attract migrants, both rural-urban ones
and international ones
 In turn globalization contributes to the ability of
people to migrate
 Despite globalization some people remain
disconnected