Flatteners 8,9, and 10

Flattener 8: Insourcing:  with the emerge of the UPS, which facilitate work for many small or large companies around the world. When companies started to use the USP, the cost of services decreased with increasing in providing more services for the consumers. For example,  Toshiba company.

Flattener9: In-Forming: the increasing of the use of the Internet especially to find information which are easy to find by using the search engines such as, MSN, Yahoo, Google, and many others. This development in the using of the Internet technology facilitates many aspects of life for people around the globe.

Flattener10:  The Steroids:  digital, smart phones,  personal computers, laptops, and many other devices that people use to communicate with each other or to do their work can be done at high speed with low  cost. Moreover, this advanced technology you can use anywhere and at anytime which also help many people with their work and lives. For example, we use phones to send text messages which are much cheaper than other things that were used before.

Flatteners 4,5,6, and 7

Flattener 4: uploading harnessing the power of communities:
it is related to the online projects that people use to connect and share with each other, and it is common in our daily lives such as blogs, Wikipedia, and others.

Flattener 5: outsourcing: it is basically saying that outsourcing has allowed people and companies to share their products with each other and can help them to show their products to the consumer in more effective way and in the same time it is cheaper.

Flattener6: offshoring:  it is the communication between companies to share or introduce their products with different companies in different places in the world.


Flattener7: supply chaining: it is one of the way that companies use to show their products to their consumers by using technology which in many ways facilitate the way of trading like shipping, and other stuff that a company needs to do. one example for that is Wal-Mart company.