Global Challenge: What you should bear in mind, the work we have to do, solutions for the future

1. Global Challenges

2. What are some of the Challenges?
• The Communications Divide
• Natural Resources and the Ecological
Footprint
• The World of Inequality
• World Conflict and the Flow of Refugees
• Global Health diseases
• Terrorism

3. The Communications Divide

4. The Communications Divide

5. The Communications Divide

6. The Digital Age

7. The Digital Age

8. Natural Resources and the
Ecological Footprint

9. Natural Resources and the
Ecological Footprint

10. Natural Resources and the
Ecological Footprint

11. The World of Inequality

12. The World of Inequality

13. The World of Inequality

14. World Conflict and the Flow of
Refugees

15. World Conflict and the Flow of
Refugees

16. World Conflict and the Flow of
Refugees

17. Global Burden of Diseases

18. Global Challenge
• What do we mean when we say that we
live in an increasingly global world?
• Ideological change and technology
revolution are making globalisation one
of the most important issues facing us
today.

19. Akio Morita
Co-founder of Sony
• “Think Globally, Act Locally.”
• His philosophy was christened ‘Global’ and
this led to the new word ‘Globalization’.

20. Henry Wendt
former CEO SmithKline Beecham
“Cross border alliances will be the potential
savior of the American pharmaceuticals
industry”
• He recognized that internationally based
strategic alliances would become important
if not vital.
Henry Wendt

21. John Reed Retired Chairman
Citibank
Rationale for the appointment ?
“Hard to teach technology to an established
banker, but relatively easy to teach banking to
a technologist.
• Technology is all encompassing
• A one for all platform
John S. Reed

22. Road Map for Smart
Globalization
• “We must cultivate a global mindset”
• Cultural and geographic diversity must be
viewed as opportunities.

23. What is Globalisation?
• Globalisation refers to growing
economic interdependence among
countries as reflected in increasing
cross-border flows of three types of
entities: goods, services, capital and
knowledge”.
• Is the world truly becoming more
global?

24. Who will drive Globalization?

25. Who will drive Globalization?

26. Who will drive Globalization?

27. Last Word