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Welcome to My Blog on BI and Globalisation

Welcome to this blog that focuses on Business Intelligence in the global context. We live in a increasingly small world. Our economy is globalised to a large degree in evey industry, whether we like it or not!

Now, let's factor into the mix the practice and technology of business intelligence. What do you get? A world economy moving very fast and very intelligently. Is this good for everybody in the world? Not necessarily, but the challenge is to understand the trends and react to them in meaningful ways.

Have you read The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman? If not, I suggest reading it with a special focus on how business intelligence is playing a critical role in Globalisation. In particular, how is business intelligence...

- Enabling us to cut through the complexity of globalisation?
- Acting as a magnet to converge diverse technologies to support globalisation?
- Being specialized to solve specific problems of various regions across the world?
- Evolving into the collaborative fabric for better globalisation?
- Creating serious ethical issues involving globalisation that require our attention?

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