Amazon.com Business Analysis Calvin Moy MGT 521 August 13‚ 2012 Dan Kearney Amazon.com Business Analysis Amazon.com‚ or Amazon as most people refer to it‚ is one of the largest online retailers in the world. It is an online web-based marketplace that has tens of thousands of products and still increasing. The goal of Amazon is stated on its website: Amazon.com strives to be Earth ’s most customer-centric company where people can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online
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online‚ major companies have gone online to successfully augment the brick and mortar corporations‚ and the playing field is all the way to edges of cyberspace‚ wherever that is Traditional competitors Amazon has strong competitors like online retailing stores and a large number of physical stores(Books‚ Grocery‚Electronics‚Video games etc). Examples : Barnes & Noble‚ Inc.‚ Wal-Mart.com USA‚ LLC (privately held)‚ Catalog & Mail Order Houses High – As search engines are becoming the first choice for
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AMAZON History and Background Amazon was founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos‚ who is still the head of the company at the time. Based in Seattle‚ Amazon started out as an online bookseller and went on to become the world ’s largest non-travel e-commerce business. Once the website was established as a bookseller‚ it was a logical step into the sale of other entertainment products‚ such as music and films‚ and also into the hardware used to deliver home entertainment. Amazon was a pioneer in the use
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brainer of a business proposition. Today you can buy most things from Amazon.com – books‚ movies‚ health and beauty products‚ appliances‚ sporting goods…..online and the company will ship these purchases to your home the same day and often at little or no cost to you. The typical 2014 university student has grown up with the World Wide Web and eCommerce and takes these services for granted. For its part Amazon recorded revenues of $17.09 billion dollars in 2013 but for all that activity‚ the company
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Five Ps for strategy Henry Mintzberg (1996) * Mintzberg‚ H. (1996) ’Five Ps for Strategy1 in Mintzberg‚ H. and Quinn‚ J. B. (1996) The Strategy Process‚ London‚ Prentice Hall. Originally published in extended form in California Management Review (Fall 1987). * Human nature insists on a definition for every concept. * Strategy has long been used implicitly in different ways even if it has traditionally been defined in only one. * Explicit recognition of multiple definitions can
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economical‚ socio-cultural and technological issues of Amazon‚ which is called PEST analysis. It’s a simple business measurement tool but important and widely used that helps understanding the market growth. Political point of view Amazon arrived in China in 2004. Implementing itself in China was not a simple task to do. Even if the firm was number one in all the countries it was already implanted in (the US‚ the UK‚ France‚ Germany‚ Canada‚ Japan)‚ Amazon had to follow a certain kind of rules imposed
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Inc. had first begun to expand in the late 1990s. It was the first company to offer the greatest selection of “books‚ CDs‚ videos‚ DVDs‚ electronics‚ toys‚ tools‚ home furnishings and housewares‚ apparel‚ and kitchen gadgets.” Amazon had also begun getting into the retail business by selling products offered from companies such as ToysRUs‚ Target‚ Borders‚ Hotwire‚ and many more. Amazon strived to “set the standard for web businesses. The site was intended to become as user friendly as possible with
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Creating an Industrial Society in the North 18 Learning Outcomes After reading this chapter‚ you should be able to do the following: LO 1 Describe the evolution of urbanization in the United States in the last decades of the nineteenth century‚ and the disparities of wealth that emerged within those cities. LO 2 Discuss immigration to the United States that took place in the last decades of the 1800s‚ including where most immigrants came from‚ why they came‚ and what their experiences
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The company’s positioning and business model * Amazon is the first mover of virtual retail supercenter selling products which started off from selling only books online and also offer the lowest possible prices to its customers. * Thus‚ Amazon is likely to be seen as a ‘broad differentiator’ who is in the middle of differentiate and cost leaders approaches. * However‚ it can be seen as more leaning to differentiators as most of its past and current strategies are focusing more on innovation
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Amazon Case Study – Notes 1. Using appropriate theories/tools/models covered on the module: * Critically examine Amazon’s strategic positioning on the European market. Access the extent to which value innovations contributed to Amazon’s success as a global player (35 marks) * Evaluate Amazon’s business and corporate-level strategy - a key component to the company’s continued success‚ by discussing approaches adopted to establish a truly global brand (25 Marks) * Suggest
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