McKinsey Trends for 2006

The McKinsey Trends for 2006 contain some very insightful information. What I find very interesting is how communication is changing the way people work in India. Patterns in India are often slow to change so the typical office work hours and methods will remain but smart Indian companies are amazing. Work is recieved from many places and the work is done by teams spread across India and quickly returned to the customer.

Here is what the McKinsey Report says
More transformational than technology itself is the shift in behavior that it enables. We work not just globally but also instantaneously. We are forming communities and relationships in new ways (indeed, 12 percent of US newlyweds last year met online). More than two billion people now use cell phones. We send nine trillion e-mails a year. We do a billion Google searches a day, more than half in languages other than English. For perhaps the first time in history, geography is not the primary constraint on the limits of social and economic organization.

This is a great report by McKinsey - you should read it. And if you want to learn about a start up company that is proving that geography is not a constraint then discover a company that is providing Adobe graphic services in one of the most remote places on earth.