Global Flow Reshaping the World

From McKinsey:  Global Flow reshaping the world.  Podcast and graphics.   We examined some of these concepts in several redesigns of global supply chains. " ...  Global flows have been a common thread in economic growth for centuries, since the days of the Silk Road, through the mercantilist and colonial periods and the Industrial Revolution. But today, the movement of goods, services, finance, and people has reached previously unimagined levels. Global flows are creating new degrees of connectedness among economies—and playing an ever-larger role in determining the fate of nations, companies, and individuals; to be unconnected is to fall behind. ... "