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DEFINITION: Glocalization is a term that was invented in order to emphasize that the globalization of a product is more likely to succeed when the product or service is adapted specifically to each locality or culture it is marketed in. The term combines the word globalization with localization. (An earlier term for globalization in terms of product preparedness for international marketing is internationalization.)  … 
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Realizing Business Value with Identity and Access Management
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how IBM identity and access management solutions help organizations realize business value through a centralized, automated identity and access management infrastructure.
Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Oct 2009


Designing a Strategy for End-to-End Web Protection
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This IBM white paper outlines the risks surrounding Web applications and reviews four layers of security needed in a strategy for end-to end Web protection.
Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 27 Oct 2009


Data to Intelligence: The BI Advantage for Financial Services
sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER: Find out how leading financial enterprises are turning to sophisticated data warehousing techniques, real-time analytics, improved data quality, and intelligent metrics to find competitive advantage.
Posted: 12 Oct 2009 | Published: 12 Oct 2009


Making Strategy Real
sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER: How can management communicate business strategy effectively and assure that the entire organization has bought in to the strategy and is aligned behind it? Business performance optimization systems are an important tool for success.
Posted: 25 Sep 2009 | Published: 25 Sep 2009


Distributors Gain Control of Destiny with Integrated Solutions Based on Best Practices
sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER: This IDC report examines the key challenges facing distribution companies as the rules of the game change under the twin forces of globalization and industry consolidation.
Posted: 07 Aug 2009 | Published: 07 Aug 2009


Managing Enterprise Information: Architecting for Survival and Positioning for Success in Tough Times
sponsored by SAP BusinessObjects
WHITE PAPER: Today, businesses must work smarter, not just harder - and to do it, they must use information to compete. With ever-greater demands on data resources, organizations need to derive greater value from their existing information.
Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Published: 19 Jun 2009


The Collaboration Advantage: Customer-Focused Partnerships In A Global Market
sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER: In order to better understand the opportunities, challenges, risks and rewards companies have seen from these types of agreements, the Economist Intelligence Unit conducted a survey in March 2008, sponsored by SAP, which asked 516 senior executives how their business relationships are evolving.
Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 05 Jun 2009


THINKStrategies - On-Demand Business Intelligence Solutions: A New Way to Achieve Your Corporate Objectives in Today's Challenging Economy
sponsored by SAP BusinessObjects
WHITE PAPER: The macro-market trends of Globalization and eCommerce are making it more important than ever for corporate executives and end users to access critical information to make effective business decisions. This paper will examine how a new generation of SaaS-based BI solutions is responding to the escalating challenges facing companies of all sizes.
Posted: 10 May 2009 | Published: 10 May 2009


Five Steps To Effective Corporate Governance
sponsored by Wipro Technologies
WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper takes a look at the importance of corporate governance in today's context, some best practices that companies can adopt in this area for effective corporate governance and, more specifically, lays out 5 important steps to effective corporate governance.
Posted: 27 Feb 2009 | Published: 27 Feb 2009


Business Process-Centric Information Technology: Aligning Business and Technology for High Performance
sponsored by Accenture
WHITE PAPER: Process-centric IT is, first and foremost, a way for the IT organization to build applications that will deliver greater flexibility and agility to the business-enabling high performance.
Posted: 18 Feb 2009 | Published: 18 Feb 2009


Global Delivery: A Course to High Performance in a Multi-Polar World
sponsored by Accenture
WHITE PAPER: To fully exploit the opportunities offered by the multi-polar world, multinationals and public sector organizations must successfully create a global delivery strategy, and tap into specialized industry.
Posted: 18 Feb 2009 | Published: 18 Feb 2009


Global Manufacturing Operations Management
sponsored by Apriso Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This paper explains how a common platform can provide the basis for not only managing manufacturing operations, but also quality and inventory across global supplier networks.
Posted: 11 Sep 2008 | Published: 11 Sep 2008


Service Delivery Innovation: Creating Client Value and Enhancing Profitability
sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER: This paper reviews the forces that affect the professional services market today, defines and explains the main pillars of service delivery innovation, and reviews the benefits firms derive from service delivery innovation.
Posted: 06 Aug 2008 | Published: 06 Aug 2008


Supply Chain Collaboration: The Key to Success in a Global Economy
sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER: Learn how you can transform traditional supply chains from linear, sequential processes into adaptive supply chain networks.
Posted: 06 Aug 2008 | Published: 06 Aug 2008


Leveraging the Talent Supply Chain for a Competitive Advantage
sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER: This paper identifies the market trends driving the need for an integrated talent supply chain and describes the internal inefficiencies professional services firms must overcome to optimize their talent supply chains.
Posted: 02 Feb 2008 | Published: 02 Feb 2008


3 Things Business Decision-Makers Need to Know about SOA
sponsored by IFS
WHITE PAPER: Given the increasing importance of service-oriented architecture (SOA), this white paper cuts through the marketing hype surrounding SOA and focuses on the three most important facts you need to know about this groundbreaking technology.
Posted: 07 Jun 2006 | Published: 07 Jun 2006

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GLOBALIZATION DEFINITION (continued): …  The term first appeared in the late 1980s in articles by Japanese economists in the Harvard Business Review. According to the sociologist Roland Robertson, who is credited with popularizing the term, glocalization describes the tempering effects of local conditions on global pressures. At a 1997 conference on "Globalization and Indigenous Culture," Robertson said that glocalization "means the simultaneity --- the co-presence --- of both universalizing and particularizing tendencies."The increasing presence of McDonalds restaurants worldwide is an example of globalization, while the restaurant … 
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