Comments on: Globalisation – what happens next and what will it mean? http://clubtroppo.com.au/2006/09/28/globalisation-what-happens-next-and-what-will-it-mean/ Fearlessly dispensing political, legal and economic analysis (and some whimsy) since 2002 Wed, 23 May 2012 04:24:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: cam http://clubtroppo.com.au/2006/09/28/globalisation-what-happens-next-and-what-will-it-mean/#comment-50596 cam Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:07:05 +0000 http://www.clubtroppo.com.au/2006/09/28/globalisation-what-happens-next-and-what-will-it-mean/#comment-50596 IMO any business model that is static will contain processes and employment that can be done anywhere with the technology allowing that company to compete in the local market. Static business models seem to be commoditised industries that compete on margin. IMO any business model that is static will contain processes and employment that can be done anywhere with the technology allowing that company to compete in the local market.

Static business models seem to be commoditised industries that compete on margin.

]]> By: Oz http://clubtroppo.com.au/2006/09/28/globalisation-what-happens-next-and-what-will-it-mean/#comment-50589 Oz Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:04:09 +0000 http://www.clubtroppo.com.au/2006/09/28/globalisation-what-happens-next-and-what-will-it-mean/#comment-50589 The skills that will go offshore will be the skills that do not need to be attached to a specific locality. Health services, non-tertiary teaching, local bureacracy won't be outsourced. However while costs of communication may be going down, the issue of energy, particularly in regards to costs for transport will be a long-term issue. Any moves to non-carbon fuels could be expensive and could encourage more localism in the short-term. I agree with the view that alot of technical skills will be outsourced, particularly as China and India are putting alot of investment into local education. As their population becomes more skilled with more resources at their disposal as we fund education and resource less it really is no surprise. Managers and public relations jobs might not necessarily be outsourced but they might move overseas. Though these professionals have the opportunity and the mobility to follow the job overseas. It raises an entirely new issue about the mobility of labour. Capital once was geographically tied but no longer is. Land isn't as big a factor as it once was either. Labour has restrictions on its mobility, both imposed by government and is at the whims because of these spatial factors. It's a buyers market for labour. What really is necessary is for greater co-operation between different countries and communities. As capital has gone global, any regulation of it has to go global in the creation of a floor and some controls. Though I wonder if that's really that possible in the forseeable future. The skills that will go offshore will be the skills that do not need to be attached to a specific locality. Health services, non-tertiary teaching, local bureacracy won’t be outsourced. However while costs of communication may be going down, the issue of energy, particularly in regards to costs for transport will be a long-term issue. Any moves to non-carbon fuels could be expensive and could encourage more localism in the short-term.

I agree with the view that alot of technical skills will be outsourced, particularly as China and India are putting alot of investment into local education. As their population becomes more skilled with more resources at their disposal as we fund education and resource less it really is no surprise.
Managers and public relations jobs might not necessarily be outsourced but they might move overseas. Though these professionals have the opportunity and the mobility to follow the job overseas.

It raises an entirely new issue about the mobility of labour. Capital once was geographically tied but no longer is. Land isn’t as big a factor as it once was either. Labour has restrictions on its mobility, both imposed by government and is at the whims because of these spatial factors. It’s a buyers market for labour.

What really is necessary is for greater co-operation between different countries and communities. As capital has gone global, any regulation of it has to go global in the creation of a floor and some controls. Though I wonder if that’s really that possible in the forseeable future.

]]> By: Corin http://clubtroppo.com.au/2006/09/28/globalisation-what-happens-next-and-what-will-it-mean/#comment-50587 Corin Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:21:01 +0000 http://www.clubtroppo.com.au/2006/09/28/globalisation-what-happens-next-and-what-will-it-mean/#comment-50587 Nicholas, so Shakespeare was right 400 years ago - fox like cunning will get you everwhere? I just saw the play Julius Ceasar - in which "honest" lamb like Brutus is slain Cassius turns "good" at the end and dies and the ruthless charismatic political machine man Marc Antony triumphs. Sounds like what you are describing?? Just a bit of whimsy from me - just trying something new. Nicholas, so Shakespeare was right 400 years ago – fox like cunning will get you everwhere?

I just saw the play Julius Ceasar – in which “honest” lamb like Brutus is slain Cassius turns “good” at the end and dies and the ruthless charismatic political machine man Marc Antony triumphs. Sounds like what you are describing??

Just a bit of whimsy from me – just trying something new.

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