...The Amazon rainforest is home to one of the world’s most diverse habitats, covering the majority of Northern South America. Although it is the largest rainforest in the Western hemisphere, it is presently threatened by persistent deforestation and mining by mega corporations. The continuation of these processes not only endangers the population of wildlife inhabiting the Amazon, but it also affects the lives of many indigenous tribes that have occupied its forests for centuries. According to the nonprofit organization Amazon Watch, however, such heinous actions by foreign corporations upon the people and wildlife of the Amazon must stop at once. This essay will discuss the work of the nongovernmental organization Amazon Watch, providing information on its mission to protect and restore the environment of the Amazon rainforest....
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...Amazon.com: Global Strategic Initiatives Team C FIN 370 August 15, 2011 Jim Gausling CERTIFICATE OF ORIGINALITY: I certify that the attached paper is my original work and has not previously been submitted by me or anyone else for any class. I further declare I have cited all sources from which I used language, ideas, and information, whether quoted verbatim or paraphrased, and that any assistance of any kind, which I received while producing this paper, has been acknowledged in the References section. I have obtained written permission from the copyright holder for any trademarked material, logos, or images from the Internet or other sources. I further agree that my name typed on the line below is intended to have, and shall have, the same validity as my handwritten signature. Student's signature (name typed here is equivalent to a signature): Robert Bosaaen, Joe Lindsay, Priyal Patel Amazon.com: Global Strategic Initiatives Strategic planning initiatives play an integral role in the success of an organization. Strategic planning drives the goal of expansion and globalization in particular for most organizations. Whereas growth is important, it is also to maintain proper initiatives which are commensurate with the organization’s capacity and ability to grow accordingly. Amazon.com, one of the most successful online companies in the Internet’s relatively young history, is a beacon of strength and solid strategic planning in global industry. Through careful planning...
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...Ans: Amazon’s was started with a focus on the following four value propositions: * Convenience * Selection * Price and * Customer Service With these objectives Amazon opted for e-business of retailing. This offered the convenience. Amazon offered more choices than a conventional retailer. Since, it had the volumes it was able to offer products cheaper to the customer. It always met the shipping schedule and therefore had a lot of satisfied customers. However, as Amazon expanded it kept on changing its strategy and adapted itself. This ensured that though the four value propositions were still maintained the supporting business model kept on evolving. Amazon's decisions in maintaining its inventory have been fruitful over time. Amazon took deliberate and conscious decisions in managing its Inventory. 1.0 Amazon’s Initial Strategy for Inventory Management After the initial success of its lean e-tailing model, Amazon realized that in order to grow and maintain customers it would need to create its own warehouses and stack inventory as per customer requirements. Though this made sure that the goods were delivered in time the company faced huge losses and suffered inventory management crisis. 2.0 The Drop Shipment Approach In order to tide over the problem created by over stocking, Amazon adopted the Drop Shipment Approach. Drop Shipment is an arrangement wherein the retailers usually forward the orders received from the customers to the manufacturers or distributors...
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...explanation on how the explosion of information technology and the advances in global communications pose significant risks to American global organizations such as Amazon, Borders, and Books-A-Million as they expand in the international environment. This paper will also analyze the potential risk for American entities to invest in overseas global operations, in light of the swift accrual of the most advanced global communications technology and the rapid adoption by overseas employee cohorts of technical expertise in global communications. Finally, this paper will discuss the possible outcomes of entering into strategic alliances with potential overseas competitors, and evaluate the risk in exercising this option. Company Background Amazon.com, Inc. is a customer-centric company for three primary customer sets: consumers, sellers, and enterprises (Amazon, 2011). The company generates revenue through other marketing and promotional services, such as online advertising, and co-branded credit card agreements. The company operates in North America and some international companies. The company serves consumers through its retail websites, and focus on selection, price, and convenience (Amazon, 2011). Amazon (2011) websites enable products to be sold by it and by third parties across several categories. The company offer membership and also provides easy to use functionality, fulfillment, and customer service (Amazon, 2011). Borders Group, Inc. is an operator of book, music and movie...
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...Amazon Strategy Analysis The strategic planning processes. Amazon and other large enterprises to build your organization with a view - from the view of the company’s mission, goals and objectives are developed. Many times during the life of an organization is necessary for the organization to redefine the objectives of the organization on the basis of profitability, customer concerns, and the internal, external and international challenges. • Value Chain • Resource Based View • Financial Analysis Using an Analysis of the Value Chain Amazon Amazon has developed an analysis of the value chain of its Competitive Advantage “own internal operationally better assess how you can add value and sustain competitive advantage have used the value chain model of Michael Porter,"Create and maintain superior performance. " Example of a Strategic Plan Model - Amazon Internal Analysis Tools, Strategic Planning, Strategic Planning Models Primary activities and support activities Primary activities are those needed to produce a product or service to the end customers. These activities generally include: • Inbound Logistics: receiving goods from suppliers, and store and move the good • Operations: Manufacturing or assembly of the product • Outbound Logistics: The shipment of goods to wholesalers, retailers or directly to the final customer • Marketing and Sales: Marketing involves customer needs understanding, communicating...
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...Stefanie Cruz ANTH 2395 30 April 2013 Globalization and the Brazilian Amazon Containing nearly half of South America’s area and population within its realm, Brazil is considered the continent’s giant. Even more astonishing, it is also the fifth largest country in the same categories worldwide. A country with such colossal parameters no doubt holds within its jungles a vast amount of resources desirable to most of the world, making it a superpower high up in the free trade market empire. However, while it is true that the Brazilian economy is booming, what negative implications does this dependency on the global demand for its commodities have on the very source of these precious resources? The Amazon rainforest, making up fifty-four percent of the world’s rainforests and providing 20 percent of the world’s oxygen (thus acquiring the name “Lungs of the Planet”), is taking the hardest hit. Because some of the highest-grossing commodities are drawn from the soil or consume land masses as time progresses, as the demand for these products gets higher, so does the inevitable environmental degradation of the Brazilian Amazon. Due to an increase in the global demand for Brazilian exports such as soybean and cattle production, there is a rapid expansion into non-protected forests causing irreversible deforestation in the Amazon and displacement of its local tribes. Everyday, the world’s population is faced with new challenges when it comes to the supply and demand for agriculture-based...
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...Overview of Amazon Web Services December 2010 Amazon Web Services Overview May 2010 Introduction Managing the unique and groundbreaking changes in both technology and business over the past decade has created an ongoing IT infrastructure challenge for many senior technology executives. Indeed, over the past 10 years, the typical business application architecture has evolved first from a desktop-centric installation, eventually to client/server solutions, and now most prominently to loosely coupled web services and service-oriented architectures (SOA). Each of these evolutionary steps has built upon the previous while adding new challenges, dimensions, and opportunities for IT organizations and their business partners. Recently, virtualization has become a prevalent and widely accepted way to reduce operating costs and increase the reliability of enterprise IT. In addition, concepts such as grid computing make possible a whole new class of analytics, data crunching, and business intelligence tasks that were previously cost- and time-prohibitive. Along with these technology changes there have also been fundamental changes in how markets work, with the speed of innovation and product introductions increasing at an unprecedented rate. Taken alongside the wide acceptance of Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings, all of these concepts have inspired the latest turn in the IT infrastructure challenge: cloud computing. Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a flexible, cost-effective...
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...report the truth even when it’s bad tend to gain more respect and support (Taylor Fernley). Leader plays an important role in every organization. A leader’s role in an organization can impact an organization’s success and leads it toward achieving its goals. The aim of this paper is to analyze the leadership style of a chosen founder of an organization, the impact they’ve made on their industry, as well as their relationship in the workforce. This paper discussed the leadership style of Jeff Bezos founder and CEO of Amazon. Transformational Leader In the business world, there’s no better example of an astonishing growth of online retailer than Amazon. Over the years Jeff Bezos founder and CEO of Amazon have managed to build absolute consistency by delivering breakthrough improvements through real innovation and disruptive change. Through his transformational leadership style, Amazon went from being an online book store to today’s astonishing 230 million product lines site. In 1995, Amazon started out as an online bookstore that delivered books cheaply and securely. By 1998 Amazon had started to improve greatly with advanced delivery options, lower prices, and interactive customer reviews. The sites spanned the globe by widening its range through the marketplace. Today Amazon is in full innovation phase, launching cloud computing services, game changing fire phone, the Kindle eBook, and ideas like the Prime...
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...Executive Summary The Manhattan Project Company is a consulting firm that focuses on the comprehensive needs of business organization. We offer a full range of expertise that can assist a company in retaining a competitive advantage against its competitors. We are a staff of five experienced professionals who have successfully helped many organizations plan, create and achieve their objectives. We offer a professional team approach that can bring balance to any organization. The Manhattan Project Company’s consultants specialize in specific areas which include services such as SWOT analysis, sales and marketing, competitive analysis, finance, strategic planning and many others to assist any organization with their needs. We invite business owners and organizations to choose our services and let us show you how we can help you enhance your business. Introduction CanGo’s executive management has contracted with The Manhattan Project Company to provide consulting services in order to understand how to grow its business. We have looked at some areas within the organization and found a few key areas that will assist the company in reaching its goals. SWOT Analysis Strengths: CanGo has turn out to be one of the fastest growing online small business companies. CanGo has different variety of products to offer. They have labeled themselves as “the customer”. By doing this it permits them to keep the question “what do we want” in the front position of the...
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...retailers offer millions of unique, new, refurbished and used items from which to choose. Amazon.com, through the use of the four functions of management incorporate planning, organization, leading, and control of the market with their global website and change the way the world shops. Through their online store and using today’s high-tech technology they have shown the world a new form of sales and have become one of today’s biggest online stores. Globalization Amazon.com has taken two steps to ensure it has some breathing room between itself and the burgeoning list of competitors in the e-Book e-Reader marketplace. Amazon.com lowered the price of the bestseller Kindle as well launching the Kindle DX with U.S. and International Wireless now enables readers to wirelessly download content in over 100 countries and territories. The product will be aimed at U.S. Consumers who want the freedom to use their e-readers overseas as well as eager consumers outside the U.S. who have had limited e-reader choices to date Kindle “global edition” is powered by AT&T. Amazon.com was partnering with Sprint as their wireless partner when the first Kindle was launched using “Whisper sync.” AT&T has a network of global partners who come together to provide AT&T customers global cell phone reach. The difference is that Amazon foots the bill for the bandwidth (upfront) used to download books. In the case of downloading newspapers, the cost is passed on to the customers who pay about $10 per month...
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...com is the pioneering bookstore on the Internet that first opened in July 1995 by Jeff Bezos. The firm offers online shopping services and partnership opportunities such as online search for books, music and video items. The products that they sell include an array of audio, video and book titles. Amazon has one of the widest selections and employs international shipping to virtually every corner of the globe in just a few days. Amazon’s focus is having the biggest selection of free-electronic greeting cards, online auction and millions of books, CDs, videos, DVDs, toys and electronics. They have expanded to different areas of the world, such as Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.de, to service consumers outside of the United States. They aim to be a Cost leader in which their firm has lower costs than the competitors. They have employed different Amazon branches in different parts of the world to lower costs. This allows Amazon to ship their products at a lower price from each point of shipment to the consumer. In recent years, Amazon.com has expanded from being just an online bookstore to an all around online shopping experience. They have coined the tag line "Earth’s biggest selection". Amazon has diversified into different websites. These are the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com), LiveBid.com, amazon.livebid.com, drugstore.com (an online retail and information about health and wellness), gear.com (online sporting goods company), homegrocer.com (online grocery shopping and delivery)...
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...201007572 Part A 1. Information system Amazon: http://www.amazon.ca/gp/homepage.html?tag=lpo%5Fixgwamuscaen-21 2. Description (Where you used it, etc.) Amazon provides an online trading platform for vendors and customers. At the beginning of the last semester, I bought a second-hand organizational behavior text book (the 7th edition but can be the substitution) on Amazon using my laptop in the dormitory. It totally took me 32 CAD including shipping expense and taxes while the book store’s price was more than 110 CAD (the newest edition). 3. How did it benefit you? * It saved my time of going to bookstore and lining up at the registers. It allowed me to complete the whole transaction process at home. * It broke the business hours’ and places’ limitation. I can buy what I want anywhere has internet access at anytime. * It helped me to easily find many used books which often belong to rarities in MUN’s book store. * It provided me some substitutions such as the prior edition text book that I cannot find in the book store. * Based on my searching, browsing and buying habits, Amazon customized my special user page, provided me many related business courses’ books. * I can choose the seller after comparisons. 4. How did it benefit the organization that implemented it? * It helped the organization to expand their marketplace to global proportions. * Cheaper electronic transactions. Organizations saved sale staff and simplified the physical...
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...ELEMENTS 1. Origin of the name Brand with good elements are constructed favorable in consumers’ minds. It is applicable, has distinct and specific meanings, thus memorable and easy to be acknowledged next time it is viewed. To increase awareness of the brand, founder, Jeffrey P. Bezos conducted several attempts naming the company. He initially named “Cadabra Inc” in 1995 when he realized that it can be misconceived as “Cadaver” which literally means dead body. The “Amazon” was soon adopted due to the fact that it is the largest river in the world. He saw the big potential for a larger volume of sale. In addition, letter “A” in Amazon could make it available for viewers to easily notice in alphabetical list. Following image is the logo of the company. Orange arrow from A to Z represents it can distribute every product in the alphabet online. Arrow itself also indicates a smile, which in turn refers to customer satisfaction as well as pleasure after the complete purchasing process. <Fig.1 logo of Amazon> These are some of the features found within the logo and how it is used in the final packaging. * Slogan: Image above is not frequently used or viewed as much as logo of amazon.com standing by itself. However slogan is the most powerful tool to explain the company in a short word, such as Wal-mart’s “Save money, Live better” efficiently demonstrates that it is based upon low price, enabling customer to save financially. Then what is demonstrated by Amazon’s...
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...Case Study 2: Cloud Computing CIS500: Information Systems Decision-Making 2012, December 2 How did Ericsson benefit from Amazon Web Services (AWS)? According to Amazon’s Web Service website, it gives users the option to run just about everything using their service applications. By incorporating cloud computing, users are able to cut variable costs to a more attractive scale for the business by eliminating costly administrative and hardware fees. Due to remote access, Ericsson was able to immediately take advantage of AWS’s benefits since the infrastructure was already up and running. Demands change quickly and it’s important for a company to be able to adjust accordingly. By using the cloud system, Ericsson was able to employ software updates and new applications quickly and more effectively. AWS services hundreds of thousands of customers in more than 190 countries, making their global infrastructure far more expansive than competitors; this allowed Ericsson to have data centers in various parts of the world. According to information provided in the case study, Ericsson chose AWS because they felt it was “the most integrated public cloud provider in the Rightscale Cloud Management Platform (Rightscale)”. Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, and RightScale Amazon EC2 The AWS website describes Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) as a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud, making web-scale computing easier for developers. It also allows you to...
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...e-commerce companies in the world. Amazon.com, Inc. is one of the largest electronic commerce companies around the globe. With Seattle, Washington serving as its headquarters, the organization which started off as a bookstore offering for sale books to its global clientele has today diversified to offer a wide range of products and services including but not in any way limited to computer software, electronic goods, mobile devices, DVDs, toys, furniture and even food. Basically, the organization serves its clientele using its retail Web sites which are tailored to offer convenience and speed to shoppers. Furthermore, I will discuss some of the benefits of e-commerce laying emphasis to Amazon and how it helped in the growth of the company. According to Fazlollahi (2002), e-commerce can be taken to be “the use of technology mediated exchanges by business for the purpose of selling goods and services over the internet.” In the recent past, the growth of e-commerce has been rather fast with more businesses becoming motivated by a wide range of reasons to embrace the platform. This also happens to be the case for Amazon. By embracing e-commerce, and most specifically business to consumer (B2C) e-commerce, Amazon has been able to access a quite a number of benefits which I will point out in my paper. Amazon is today able to sell its products at a discount thanks to e-commerce. In this regard, the online retailer effectively reduces its costs on two main fronts. First, we have cost...
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