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The most effective solution aiding globalization is the internet. Every second counts. This is very true. That is the pace of changes happening on the internet. It is a tool that brings nations together – crosses physical and geographical boundaries. With internet, costs of companies have been cut saving millions and even billions of transportation and communication costs. Information, for one, is sent back and forth. This is one tool that addressed the problem of distant communication.

As presented, it serves three purposes: discover, communicate, and collaborate. These three can work hand in hand and is vastly well served by the internet. Discovery aims to let user of the internet to search or learn and research or relearn data and information coming from different sources like websites. Communication is one noteworthy purpose of the internet bridging countries. With various tools like chat, messaging, mailing, and even calling, communication has been easy and constant with the help of internet. The other purpose of internet, collaboration, is simply for the purpose of two or more people working together to aim a particular goal or goals. With the discussed collaboration enabling tools like teleconferencing, video conferencing, web conferencing, whiteboards, screen sharing, and all others, work seem to be boundless and fast. With these tools, brainstorming, meetings, and decision making has been easy and speedy.

The downfall of the existence of internet I believe is based on the enduser. It is up to the utilization of the one using the internet will such downfall or disadvantage be present. Viruses, bugs, cyber crime, and others, are all acts of man and thus naturally, internet itself is not bad.

In addition to internet, other infrastructures of network computing are intranet and extranet. Intranet is very useful in organizations. With the confinement of intranet, data and information security is at place. This also supports internal collaboration such as emails and voice-over-internet-protocol (VoIP). Extranet is a network of two or more intranets connected. This can best serve organizations with significant partnership and cooperation with other organizations.

The presence of these tools supports groupwork and collaboration within and among organizations. This is for their respective advantages, supplementing each others edges.


 
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All organizations, well mostly, aim to best serve purpose may it be un production or service. This may well be expressed through their commitment towards development and innovation. With the help of information systems, organization can keep up with the fast-paced changing society. Organizations can reach out to their suppliers and customers with ease and promptness, as well as in the organization itself, communication can be made possible even continents apart.

In todays competition, the vital weapon is data, which is already there. It is just up to who reaches, gathers, analyzes and makes use of the data that can lead and capture the market. Today, it is not just who is on the top, it is now more on how long can the leader maintain its spot. Today, it is not just who has been serving the market long enough but who can keep up with the society’s tastes and preference. The one who continues to amaze the market will gain the competitive edge among the industry. One example of a Filipino company that continues to amaze the market is the San Miguel Corporation, with their vast products and ventures; they continually innovate and develop products and services. They continue to learn from their customers and then use that learning to be able to well serve their clientele.

These strategies may seem very obvious and common knowledge but in practice, they are the hardest practice since one does not only concern a single person, it concerns groups of people, inside and outside the organization. It involves also other organizations that have different goals and objectives as well as having their own strategies. With this idea, competition is head on and no room for slacking off. That is the idea of utilizing these strategies; leading and not just keeping up with the competition.