Singapore Tradenet: Beyond Tradenet to the Intelligent Island

Singapore TradeNet: Beyond TradeNet to the Intelligent Island

1. Discuss project and cultural dimensions of Tradenet.  Are there differences with the Intelligent Island?

| Project Dimensions | |

Parameters | Team Members | Stakeholders | |

Locations | 6 | 6 | |

Languages | 2 | 6 | |

Time Zones | 3 | 10 | |

Cultures | 6 | 15 | |

Organizations | 6 | 15 | |

| Singapore | 8 | UTC + |

Asia | Myanmar (Burma) | 6.5 | |

| India | 5.5 | |

| China | 8 | |

| Vietnam | 7 | |

Europe | Germany | 1 | |

| France | 1 | |

| Switzerland | 1 | |

| UK | 0 | |

| Australia | 9.5 | |

| New Zealand | 12 | |

| Indonesia | 8 | |

| Malasya | 8 | |

| Japan | 9 | |

| USA | -7 | |

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Cross-national Cultural Differences |

| | Singapore | USA (TradeNet) IBM Software |

Hofstedes | PDI | 74 | High | 40 | Low |

| IDV | 20 | Low | 91 | High |

| MAS | 48 | Low/Feminine | 62 | High/Masculine |

| UAI | 8 | Low | 46 | High |

| LTO | 48 | High | 29 | Low |

Trompenaars | Individualism vs. Communitarism | Communitarists | Individualists |

| Achievement vs. Ascription | Achievement-oriented | Achievement-oriented |

| Neutral vs. Affective | Neutral | Neutral |

| Specific vs. Diffuse | Diffuse | Specific |

| Internal vs. External Control | External-control | Internal-control |

2. What factors contributed to Singapore's current enviable economic position?

Thanks to Singapore’s political stability and regulations such as free-port status and open-trade policies, among with the English-educated workforce, strategic location with excellent physical transportation and, good communications infrastructure; is how many MNC’s were attracted to invest and install in Singapore leading to its enviable economic growth and position. Other factors that convinced MNC’s to install in Singapore were Singapore’s clean and honest governments dealing. Then Singapore took...