It's a Small, Strange World

The bank clerk in Boston gets a layoff notice
The backoffice employee in Bangalore gets a bonus...

The Bangalore backoffice mushrooms in size tenfold
Chockfull of Dell computers and Coke bottles ice cold...

The Bangalore lad takes his girlfriend to the latest Bollywood movie
Replete with special effects created with Silicon Valley wizardry...

The complex software to run those mighty Silicon Valley computers
Proves too costly and is offshored to Mumbai-based programmers...

Whose salaries zoom to levels never seen before in Mumbai
Bringing smiles to lips of Software Park managers in Hanoi...

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Welcome to the whirl of electronic globalization. This blog explores the economic, political, technological and cultural dimensions of this whirl, returning the focus from time to time to the business implications of all this global spin....

Nik Dholakia
Professor
University of Rhode Island