Two articles this week emphasized to me how quickly the world is connecting and how the United States is no longer the center of it all (if it ever was). Organizations that are nimble and comfortable with using web-based technologies and with working across geographic boundaries, including moving key staff overseas, will have the greatest chance of success. The first is the developing partnership between India, South Africa and Brazil regarding nuclear energy and trade discussed on The Hindu. Second is the announcement that Mexico has 451,000 engineering students currently enrolled, while the United States has 370,000. Discussed on NPR (no link available), companies are looking at hiring Mexican engineers, or engineers who live in Mexico. The engineers in Mexico earn in dollars one seventh of their U.S. counterparts. Convert dollars to pesos and the engineers earn a nice living, but are a lower cost to their employer.

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