Underlying the evolution of global business, this human touch
takes the form of a search for global competence – managerial,
cultural, and operational. Global competence is embedded in
organizational talent and the systems and leadership that organize
and deploy it, but it is increasingly embedded within a workforce
that lies beyond the familiar boundaries of regular full-time
employment, and is empowered by technologies, platforms, and
connectedness that could hardly be dreamt of in the 1960s.