Globalization and Information Technologies: New Emerging Partnerships

摘要

Economic reports are finally acknowledging that information technologies (IT) increase productivity. Information professionals had known that this was bound to happen once companies reorganized, began to understand the information and IT and business relationship, which would enable them to take full advantage of IT capabilities. Changes in doing business are heralded in a full-page ad in the New York Times. It describes dramatically how an Internet search, followed by a seemingly instantaneous bid, resulted in a two-hour engagement of a Mandarin Chinese translator in some part of the world to help deal with a Chinese business contact.