A recent Hindustan Times headline proclaimed how "India centre engineers played key role, filed 40 patents for Vista"
The article said: While Bill Gates and his global team celebrated the launch of Microsoft Corp's much awaited Vista operating system in the Times Square and elsewhere in the world, the city of Charminar had its own reasons to exult. Some 330 engineers in Microsoft's India Development Centre at Hyderabad engineered some of the most important features of the software — and filed 40 patents to prove that. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer had during his visit to India in November taken time off to party with the engineers based in the Hi-Tec City complex. Five years ago, when Windows had launched Windows XP with 40 people involved from Hyderabad, it was a case of developing individual technologies in parts (for e.g. Internet Explorer) in India and integrating them with the global team from Redmond.
Well, articles like this just reinforce the point that large organizations are globalizing research and development, leveraging skills and talent cutting across ‘time and space’ boundaries.
Its no more, "Think globally, act locally".
Its only, "Think globally, act globally".
“In a flat world, the national boundaries become less significant, and the winners are those who capitalize on capabilities available globally.”
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