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    FACILITATING CHANGE

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    departments on the organizational hierarchy. By Bezos having a functional structure‚ it allowed the company to differentiate as it grew. Competitors try to keep up with Amazon‚ but Amazon is so far advanced with having their products and services vertically integrated. Because of this Amazons structure is dynamic and often changes with the environment. Financially‚ Amazon operates on a thin margin‚ and that is the way chief executive officer Jess Bezos likes it as he sees it as a competitive advantage

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    Ge´S Ib: the Evo Project

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    CEO had to pass in his first years in charge of the company. It also takes us in the quest of understanding and analyzing one of the main bets of the new CEO Jeff Immelt‚ which were the Imagination Breakthroughs‚ best known as IB’s looking at one example in an specific division of the company‚ the Transportation branch; one of the many complex and risky industries that either you can go very good and have big profits‚ or really bad and be in problems very fast‚ so throughout this analysis‚ we

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    Amazon: The Success Story

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    Success Story of Amazon Amazon‚ a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle‚ Washington‚ is the global leader in e-commerce. Since Jeff Bezos started Amazon in 1995‚ it significantly expanded their product offerings‚ international sites‚ and worldwide network of fulfillment and customer service centers. Today‚ Amazon offers everything from books and electronics to tennis rackets and diamond jewelry. They operate sites in the United Kingdom‚ Germany‚ France‚ Japan‚ Canada‚ and China and maintain over

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    Business Model of Amazon

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    Opening of the internet to commercial activity‚ the creation of naming conventions for URLs and the development of a user friendly and free interface i.e. the browser were the three major developments that led to the advent of what is known as “e-business”. As the economy has moved from agrarian to industrial to information age‚ the focus of the businessmen or the wealthy and powerful has also shifted in terms of the ways of obtaining wealth or doing business. In the agrarian age there was shortage

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    is “to be earth’s most customer-centric company where people can find and discover anything they want to buy online.” Amazon is now the world’s largest online retailer selling just about any product‚ even when they do not make a profit from them. Jeff Bezos (Amazon’s CEO) uses a cost leadership strategy to produce products and services with a lower cost than the competitors do. By offering the lowest prices he gains market share and brand recognition. For this strategy to succeed Amazon has to provide

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    Opportunities: 5 Customer Focus: 5 Means to Innovate and Enhance Customer Experience: 6 Amazon.com - The Wal-Mart of the Internet 6 Recommendations: 7 References: 8 Summary of the Amazon Case: Amazon.com was founded in 1995 by Jeff Bezos‚ the CEO of Amazon.com. Jeff Bezos strategy was to offer its clients lowest possible prices and world leading customer experience thereby becoming the biggest bookstore and the leading global online service in the world. They wanted to remain customer focused and

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    Summary: Leader Comparison

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    to view how each individual uses and applies the theories to their work‚ dependant on what they believe best suits them. Every human being is unique. It is impossible to really compare and contrast as to which style is the superior of the two. Both Bezos and Patton were extraordinary leaders whom adopted and utilised their leadership style and used it to its full potential. The main limitation is in knowing which concept to adopt and demonstrate to one’s self. Although each individual was a leader

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    Among thousands of online retailers that popped up during the dot com boom‚ Amazon.com was by far one of the biggest success stories that is still relevant to this day. In 1995‚ Jeff Bezos read the statistics that the internet was growing at 2300% and founded Amazon.com‚ primarily as an online book seller. Authors Bolcher et al. (2013) point out an important aspect of value-chain analysis is that “the firm should carefully study each step in its operations to determine how each step contributes to

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    Joseph Schumpeter formally regarded the understanding that entrepreneurs are often innovators‚ bringing new‚ improved goods and technologies to markets‚ creating new niche upcoming solutions and delivering them into new markets. Entrepreneurship focuses on the creativity‚ moment of inspiration‚ the why when and how of certain opportunity recognition. According to Schumpeter “the role of entrepreneurship is implicit as an underlying cause of innovation. However‚ innovation is not solely the domain

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    Warren Buffett

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    idea of the value of certain investments. When the "Oracle of Omaha" took a pass on the purchase of the Washington Post (WPO)‚ they began to wonder what factors might have influenced his decision to let the notable newspaper pass to Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos. Buffet already owns 31 newspapers that operate in small and mid-size cities. It would not be unreasonable for him to consider taking on a paper of the reputation and popularity of the Post. He also has a number of personal ties to the paper

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