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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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Globalization Reports
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Doing More with Less: Automating IT Services in Your Midsize Business
sponsored by N-able Technologies
WHITE PAPER: Driven by mounting compliance, security, globalization and competition issues, IT Professionals in midsize businesses are under heavy pressure to increase efficiencies and work within tighter budgets. Services automation is a proven way for addressing these challenges.
Posted: 02 Dec 2009 | Published: 02 Dec 2009


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 AG
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


Oracle AppCast: Globalization Challenges and Opportunities: A Conversation with The Boston Consulting Group's Hal Sirkin
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
PODCAST: Listen to this podcast featuring Hal Sirkin, senior partner and managing director at The Boston Consulting Group, to learn about the new Era in international business competition.
Posted: 14 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 14 Sep 2009


Introduction to McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5
sponsored by McAfee, Inc.
VIDEO: Many organizations have cut costs by distributing IT across the globe. This makes integration and management a challenge. To ensure your security team is on the same page, check out this video to learn about a solution that allows you to manage different technologies in different time zones with a localized system.
Posted: 10 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 10 Sep 2009


Presentation Transcript: Be Prepared! Leverage SAP PLM to Navigate Through Uncertain Times
sponsored by SAP America Inc
PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Read this presentation transcript to learn the business value of PLM in an uncertain economy as well as significant trends in the PLM market. Explore SAP's approach to a new generation of product lifecycle management solutions that will help you remain or become a product and services leader.
Posted: 04 Aug 2009 | Published: 04 Aug 2009


Managing Global Web Sites: Localization, a Never Ending Story
sponsored by SDL Tridion
WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides examples about how organizations can use BluePrinting technology to achieve a smooth global Web operation and explains how organizations combine Content Management technology with translation technologies for even greater efficiency.
Posted: 20 Jul 2009 | Published: 20 Jul 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


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


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


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 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


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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