How International Is Your Business?
One of our points of pride around Clever Zebra is that we live and work in virtual space. I’ve never even been on the same continent as Nick Wilson, for instance, let alone in the same room. Regardless, we work together every day. Space is just a theoretical concept, like international borders.
The growing international nature of business is hardly news of course. The press regularly carries stories of electronics from Japan, outsourcing to India, software from California, the usual chichés. What’s really stunning, though, is the number of countries whose economic power and standards of living the press often underestimates.
I’ll let Hans Rosling, Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institutet and Director of the Gapminder Foundation, explain the details:
Hans Rosling: Let my dataset change your mindset
Hans Rosling’s answers to the TED and Reddit community interview
