{"id":2160,"date":"2009-07-30T18:44:44","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T22:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.local\/?p=2160"},"modified":"2009-07-30T18:44:44","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T22:44:44","slug":"true-global-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.local\/true-global-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"True Global Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst countries have been negotiating and battling it out for Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) the internet has been sneaking up on us.<\/p>\n<p>It has quietly provided a restriction free global platform (few exceptions in places like China) of knowledge. \u00a0Free Trade Agreements aside at a local level it is going to have an impact. \u00a0Someone in India can offer the same service as you cheaper, faster and much more effectively.<\/p>\n<p>Knowledge can flow freely around the world&#8230; ie<\/p>\n<p>Local charities now compete with the likes of Kiva for funding.<\/p>\n<p>Admin now has to compete with Virtual Assistants.<\/p>\n<p>Local book store competes with Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>It may not be true for your industry (yet) so look ahead, embrace the change and prepare for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst countries have been negotiating and battling it out for Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) the internet has been sneaking up on us. It has quietly provided a restriction free global platform (few exceptions in places like China) of knowledge. \u00a0Free Trade Agreements aside at a local level it is going to have an impact. \u00a0Someone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[272,503,543],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}