...another way to block out the sun’s heat. Trees are what cool and regulate the earth’s climate in conjunction with other such valuable services as preventing erosion, landslides, and making the most infertile soil rich with life (Connor, 2009). To be considered a rainforest, the forest must get at least 80 inches of rain per year. Most tropical rainforests get anywhere from 160 to 400 inches of rain a year; however, in some tropical rainforests, sudden downpours of rain can cause streams to rise 10-20 feet in a couple of hours (Jeantheau, 2006). Rainforests create their own mini-climates; the water that evaporates from the forest forms clouds above the area and later falls as rain. Not all of the water stays local, of course, but in the Amazon rain forest, 50-80% of the water remains in...
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...Power Shifts: The Digital Era and Publishing Power Shifts: The Digital Era and Publishing | University of South Carolina | University of South Carolina 2014 2014 Introduction The digital era has led to a slew of technological changes that are drastically changing the norms of the publishing industry which in turn impacts our literary culture. While attempting to avoid a techno-determinist argument this paper attempts to examine the manner in emerging technologies have shaped the publishing industry. The initial focus on the areas of the publishing industry that are most affected by the changes in technology and then examining how these changes ripple through the industry and eventually to methods used by publishers to adapt to the change. The initial focus is one consumer behavior and how it is affected by new technologies then there is a shift to how this shift effects the supply chain that was previously in use and the ways in which the publishing model has been changed. Traditional publisher are then examined to understand how the industry as whole can effectively manage the changes. Finally trends that are currently being implemented as well as the changing demographics and their demands are discussed in order to bring the conversation full circle. Consumers When looking at consumer behavior and how it has been shaped by the innovations of the last 20 years a psychology based perspective is important. Technology has not drastically changed consumer attitudes...
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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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...The Success of Amazon Fully discuss the pros and cons of Amazon’s growth and diversification of business and specialization, and recommendations about what Amazon could have done differently Amazon.com was founded in 1994 as online book retailer. Now, the largest retailer of books has also become the largest online retailer with a customer base of over 30 million people. Amazon completes in a vast array of markets including: books, movies, digital readers, computers, electronics, pet needs, groceries, health and beauty aids, toys, clothing, jewelry, shoes, sporting goods, tools, automotive, hardware, building supply, and more. Despite their large product offering, Amazon has maintained its strong brand. Amazon has grown and evolved with the growth of the internet. They market their website to an audience that is typically tech. savvy and educated which typically means that their clientele have the money to spend on their products. One of the biggest pros to Amazon’s diversifications strategy is that they have created a one stop shop that offers almost anything that a person is looking for and have been widely successful. Amazon has made it supper easy for anyone to get started with making money online. The products are easy to find, and the ads are easy to incorporate into any blog or website. And the best part is that they even provide you with step-by step instructions on how to do it. Amazon allows you to open up to 100 Amazon stores which you can link to from your...
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...1995, Amazon was opened as a bookstore, one that has grown over the years and morphed into a large reputable internet based company. One of the largest virtual superstores today in the world, Amazon offers up to thirty six categories of products. Jewelry, furniture, clothing and groceries are just but a few of the products that Amazon has to offer. Today, Amazon boasts of being the top online retailer in the whole world (Andrei and Jain, 2009). In an effort to modernize its data centers and software and also be able to add new features in the existing product pages, it developed a number of important services that have proved significant in its growth over the years. Question 1 World over, Amazon is known for the provision of cloud computing also known as utility computing or demand computing. In essence, it refers to allowing the firm to offload peak demand for computing power to large scale data processing centers that are remote. In a nutshell, the Amazon Company offers computing capacity on a per usage basis. Amazon is at an advantageous point in terms of business in the sense that it can generate more income from a number of other businesses (Buyya, Yeo, Venugopal, Broberg and Brandic, 2009). This can be achieved through provision of its extra and additional capacity to those in need. Amazon uses only a small percentage or portion of its computing capacity and any one time, a scenario that is synonymous with a number of establishments. Another key aspect at Amazon is the...
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...1. Company Introduction 2. Industry Analysis 3. Financial Analysis - Profitability & Growth Analysis - Cash Flow & Cash Uses - Liquidity & Solvency 4. Outlook & Investment Recommendation 1. COMPANY ANALYSIS Amazon has continually been growing; although the company suffered from a $ -241 M net loss at $ 89 B revenue in 2014. Analysis based on latest audited data FY 2014 by EY. REVENUE & NET INCOME Revenues of $ 89 B with a net loss of $ -241 M in 2014 HISTORY Jeffrey Bezos launched Amazon.com in July 1995 SOURCES OF REVENUE Products (online retail with 79% / $ 70,080 M) and services (= 21% / $ 18,908 M) compuDng services, consumer electronics, digital content & adverDsing services DIVERSIFICATION Constant efforts to diversify by acquiring companies/start-ups and supported by high investments in R&D (e.g. IntegraDng the value chain by creaDng digital content provided online) CORPORATE STRATEGY Amazon at a glance ROE BREAKDOWN ROE -2.35% = NI Assets -241 47,332 -1% X Assets Equity 47,332 10,244 Main focus on strong growth above market average to gain market share rapidly since the company’s foundaDon. Focus on expansion esp. in Europe in 2016 (Example: + 2,500 employees, +3 R&D centers and + 10 warehouses in U.K.) 462.07% ESADE MBA - Class of 2017 - Section A - Group 8 3 1. Company Introduction 2. Industry Analysis 3. Financial Analysis - Profitability...
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... world and thought leaders with impact” in 2003 according to The Global Speakers Bureau’s website, Dr. Keen is a distinguished international consultant, educator, public speaker and writer in many prestigious universities, such as Harvard, Stanford, The London Business School, and MIT. According to Forbes Magazine, he has been ranked as one of the top 10 IT consultant. Indeed, he is active in several university courses for the purpose of developing new generation...
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...1995, Amazon was opened as a bookstore, one that has grown over the years and morphed into a large reputable internet based company. One of the largest virtual superstores today in the world, Amazon offers up to thirty six categories of products. Jewelry, furniture, clothing and groceries are just but a few of the products that Amazon has to offer. Today, Amazon boasts of being the top online retailer in the whole world (Andrei and Jain, 2009). In an effort to modernize its data centers and software and also be able to add new features in the existing product pages, it developed a number of important services that have proved significant in its growth over the years. Question 1 World over, Amazon is known for the provision of cloud computing also known as utility computing or demand computing. In essence, it refers to allowing the firm to offload peak demand for computing power to large scale data processing centers that are remote. In a nutshell, the Amazon Company offers computing capacity on a per usage basis. Amazon is at an advantageous point in terms of business in the sense that it can generate more income from a number of other businesses (Buyya, Yeo, Venugopal, Broberg and Brandic, 2009). This can be achieved through provision of its extra and additional capacity to those in need. Amazon uses only a small percentage or portion of its computing capacity and any one time, a scenario that is synonymous with a number of establishments. Another key aspect at Amazon is the...
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...Kindle Fire GROUP 2 By: Ayan Tariq Ashish Rana Claudius Grego Saif Ahmed Table of Contents Models.............................................................................Page No. Executive Summary................................................................................3 Boston Consulting Group; Chapter 2......................................................4 SWOT-Opportunities and Threats; Chapter 2........................................5 SWOT-Strengths and Weaknesses; Chapter 2........................................6 Product-Market Combination; Chapter 2................................................7 Five Stages of Consumer Decision Making; Chapter 4 Evaluation of Alternatives.............................................................8 Five Stages of Consumer Decision Making; Chapter 4 Purchase Choice Decision..........................................................9 Demographics Segmentation; Chapter 6...............................................10 Perceptual Map; Chapter 6....................................................................11 AIDA Model; Chapter 12.......................................................................12 Promotion Strategy/Themes/Appeal; Chapter 12 and 13.........................13 Recommendations.................................................................................14 Appendix A......................................................................................15-17 Appendix B..........
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...Running header: Club IT Part Three 1 Club IT Part Three Ron M. Davis March 20, 2011 Michael Diaz Running header: Club IT Part Three 2 Lisa and Ruben are the club owners. In our initial meeting we discussed what was expected of the job that was being undertaken. They explained to me a little about the club and an overview of their need to boost their information technology, data management, and decision-making capabilities. “To learn more about Club IT’s operations, we stayed until the 2:00 a.m. closing this morning to see how everything was tallied and accounted at the end of a business day. Although it was a late night and we had to wake up early this morning to report back to work, we now have a better understanding of the daily business cycle at Club IT. Lisa asked me for suggestions on how to use club and public resources to keep Club IT’s edge as the high-energy, high-impact club it strives to be”.(Wiley, 2009) “Lisa and Ruben have just completed extensive remodeling of the...
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...why does Wal-Mart think e-business is important? Wal-Mart's focus on its e-commerce strategy not only allows the retailer to reach customers who don't have stores nearby, but, more importantly, the online customer is a significantly better customer than one that only shops at a store. “Wal-Mart believes eCommerce Brings Access to Customers Anytime, Anywhere (eCommerce 1)”. As customers not only do we expect to have great prices; we have grown to consumers who want products anytime no matter where we are. Can Wal-Mart successfully adapt their model online to challenge Amazon? While Wal-Mart’s total revenue is projected to be over five times greater than Amazon’s, the e-commerce return for Amazon’s all revenue is over seven times greater than Wal-Mart’s e-commerce revenue. Wal-Mart has gone as far as establishing Wal-Mart labs in California in order to prepare to challenge the online retail king, Amazon. These labs are designed to primarily compete against tech companies by taking pages out of each of their books. “Wal-Mart has revolutionized supply chain management by using a “pull” model where customer demands drive the suppliers (Supply 1)”. Inventory control is finely honed and purchasing trends are available to suppliers, whom now must be able to quickly respond to the needs of millions of customers. The business decision to decentralize the procurement...
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...Amazon.com Amazon is perhaps the company that is most closely tied with the dot.com gold rush phenomenon. Since 1995 the Seattle based company has grown at a tremendous rate with revenues rising from about $150 million in 1997 to $3.1 billion in 2001. The company made its first quarterly profit of $5.8 million in the fourth quarter of 2001. However, this was dwarfed by massive cumulative operating losses. Amazon’s share price symbolizes the effects of the dot-com gold-rush: [pic] Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos, a computer science and electrical engineering graduate from Princeton University. Bezos had moved to Seattle after resigning as the senior vice-president at D.E.Shaw, a Wall Street investment bank. He did not know much about the Internet. But, he came across a statistic that the Internet was growing at 2300%, which convinced him that this was a large growth opportunity. Not knowing much more, he plunged into the world of E-Commerce with no prior retailing experience. Despite this, during the early days of the Net, Jeff Bezos was one of the few people to understand the special nature of Internet Retailing and E-Commerce. Our goal is to be Earth's most customer-centric company, why? The answer is three things:The first is that customer-centric means figuring out what your customer want by asking them, then figuring out how to give it to them, and then giving it to them. That's the traditional meaning of customer-centric, and we're focused on it. The second...
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...Services…………………………………………. 13 OVERVIEW The company was founded in July 1994 by Jeff Bezos. The company began as an offline bookstore. While the largest brick-and-mortar bookstores and mail-order catalogs might offer 200,000 titles, an online bookstore could sell far more. Bezos wanted a name for his company that began with "A" so that it would appear early in alphabetic order. He began looking through the dictionary and settled on "Amazon" because it was a place that was "exotic and different" and it was one of the biggest rivers in the world, as he hoped his company would be. Since 2000, Amazon's logotype is an arrow leading from A to Z, representing that they carry every product from A to Z. Amazon was incorporated in 1994, in the state of Washington. In July, 1995, the company began service and sold its first book on Amazon.com Douglas Hofstadter's Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought. In October 1995, the company announced itself to the public. In 1996, it was reincorporated in Delaware. Amazon issued its initial public offering of stock on May 15, 1997, trading under the NASDAQ stock exchange symbol AMZN, at a price of US$18.00 per share ($1.50 after three stock splits in the late 1990s). Amazon's initial business plan was unusual. The company did not expect...
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...launched by Apple by creating their own tablets. But among the entire followers one is completely different considering its strategy and its core business: Amazon.com. The biggest Internet retailer, which already decided to enter into the market of technological devices by launching an e-reader named “the kindle” in 2007, created in 2011 its own tablet named “the Kindle Fire”. In 2012, while Apple still holds more than the half of the market share in the tablet sector, Amazon.com decided to launch its second generation of Kindle Fire a few weeks before the launch of the third generation of Ipad. And even if amazon.com does not seemed to be, at first sight, a really serious competitor for Apple, like Samsung could be, its innovative strategy could make it the most disruptive concurrent of the Californian Company. That is why we decided to make a study about the strategy used by Amazon to sell its Kindles. The first part will be focused on the history and the culture of Amazon. Then we will move to the study of the global market of tablets in order to identify the key aspects of this new market. And finally our last part will be completely focused on the Amazon.com strategy compared to the one of its biggest competitor: Apple. Part I: Amazon.com a company focused on customer needs Amazon.com was founded in 1993. Jeff Bezos, who was graduated from...
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...Amazon Business Plan My business is amazon.com and my product is the goods they sell. Because amazon is multi-dimensional and to survive in the retail world you need to be multi-dimensional. Just like REI amazon is multi-faceted how it gets it sales. is usually available to journalists and bloggers, who are visitors searching for specific news and I think if you use these 5 strategies you can create a successful business plan a business plan is supposed to capitalize on your strengths and weaknesses. Components of a Good Internet Marketing Strategy SEARCH Engine Optimization A study conducted shows that around 90% of Americans use the Internet daily, with over 2/3rd of Se up rchases being researched on the Internet. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a procedure that relates to attracting Internet traffic to your website as much as possible. SEO is crucial for online marketing success of your business. It includes optimizing your website in such a way that your site would be ranked on the initial pages of the search, so that web users can visit your website for the content they are in search of. This is done using keyword phrases that users generally put in the Internet search engine interface for searching a particular product or service. Email Marketing Strategy Another important component of an effective e-marketing strategy is email marketing which is all about sending information of product and services to potential customers using email. This is a proven effective...
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