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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Fall of the Berlin wall

2. Windows 3.1

3. Fiber optic cable

4. Netscape

5. Outsourcing

6. Opensourcing

7. Offshoring

8. Supply chaining

9. Insourcing

10.Steroids

FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL

• Brought North America to interact with Europe more

• More business with people, and the ability to sell them newer technology

WINDOWS 3.1

• Giving people other than Computer Scientists to be able to use computers

• People allowed to go on the computer easily

FIBER OPTIC CABLE

• Letting people the ability to connect to the internet and taking out the old giant copper cables

• Takes less space and is cheaper than the copper cables

NETSCAPE

• Allowing people to connect to each other

• Keep track of everything that is happening in other areas of the world

• Gathering information from a variety of sources

OUTSOURCING

• Giving jobs to people who could do it better and cheaper

• The jobs could also be done faster for the company

OPEN SOURCING

• Allowing other people to use what you create for free

• Can be modified into better versions

• For example Linux

OFFSHORING

• Giving jobs to people in different areas of the world

• The places where the labour is cheapest usually gets the job

SUPPLY CHAINING

• Producing nothing but buying from other companies and sell it

• Everything can be bought from places where labour is cheap

• For example Wal-Mart

IN-SOURCING

• Where a company performs other tasks than what it is meant to do

• More profit can be made because the company does it better

• For example UPS doing things for other companies

STEROIDS

• Where things can be performed from anywhere that require the internet

• For example accessing Facebook via IPhone

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