Download or read book Think Like Amazon 50 1 2 Ideas to Become a Digital Leader written by John Rossman and published by McGraw-Hill Education. This book was released on 2019-04-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Reading this book is like having Jeff Bezos advise me.” —Eric Martinez, Founder and CEO of Modjoul The former Amazon executive who launched and scaled Amazon Marketplace delivers the ultimate playbook on how to “think like Amazon” and succeed in the digital age. “What would Jeff do?” Since leaving Amazon to advise start-ups and corporations, John Rossman has been asked this question countless times by executives who want to know “the secret” behind Amazon’s historic success. In this step-by-step guide, he provides 50 1⁄2 answers drawn from his experience as an Amazon executive—and shows today’s business leaders how to think like Amazon, strategize like Bezos, and beat the competition like nobody’s business. Learn how to: •Move forward to get back to Day 1—and change the status quo. •Become a platform company—with the right platform strategy. •Create customer obsession—and grant your customers superpowers. •Experiment, fail, rinse, and repeat. •Decentralize your way to digital greatness. •Master the magic of small autonomous teams. •Avoid the trap of past positions. •Make better and faster decisions. •Use metrics to create a culture of accountability and innovation •Use AI and the Internet of Things to reinvent customer experiences. In addition to these targeted strategies, you’ll receive a rare inside glimpse into how Jeff Bezos and Amazon take a remarkably consistent approach to innovate, explore new markets, and spark new growth. You’ll understand the unique mindset and inner workings that drive Amazon’s operational excellence, from its ground-up approach to new digital markets to its out-of-the-box attitudes on innovation. Along the way, you’ll learn specific game-changing strategies that made Amazon stand out in a crowded digital world. These include actionable ideas that you can use to transform your culture, expand your business into digital, and become the kind of platform company that customers obsess over. Rossman also offers invaluable insights into the latest technologies, e-commerce marketing, online culture, and IoT disruptions that only an Amazon insider would know. If you want to compete and win in the digital era, you have to Think Like Amazon.
Download or read book Global Corporate Strategy A Critical Analysis and Evaluation of Amazon com written by Miriam Mennen and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010-03-19 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2006 in the subject Business economics - Offline Marketing and Online Marketing, grade: 65 % - B, University of Sunderland (Faculty of Business and Law), course: Global Corporate Strategy, language: English, abstract: In the following, the Amazon.com case study will be critically analysed and evaluated. High emphasis will be put on the company’s global business policies and strategies from its foundation in 1995 till now by examining the internal and the external environment. The online retailer followed a long-term strategy in order to fulfil its vision and values, incorporating global growth, diversification in product categories and building up the world’s most customer-centric company. Furthermore, Amzon.com’s strategic decision-making and problem solving processes will be carefully analysed and how it responds and copes with changes and difficulties arising from the business environment. This report outlines in the last step the future tendency and the future direction of the organisation by highlighting the strategic thinking behind a long-term approach. Concluding, recommendations will be given which focus on revising their strategy and applying scenario planning.
Download or read book Amazon and the Rise of E commerce written by 50minutes, and published by 50Minutes.com. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find out how Amazon conquered the world in just 50 minutes! In less than two decades, Amazon grew from a startup to become the world leader in online shopping, with hundreds of millions of customers around the world. However, the future did not always look so bright for the internet giant: its unconventional business model initially left investors worried, and it had to overcome the burst of the internet bubble that led to the collapse of many other young tech companies. In this concise and accessible guide, you will find out how Jeff Bezos was able to steer Amazon from its humble beginnings in a garage in Seattle to its current position as one of the most influential companies in the world. In 50 minutes you will: • Learn about Amazon’s history, from 1994 right up to the present day • Understand its innovative business model and find out why it was so successful • Identify the opportunities and challenges for online shopping in the future ABOUT 50MINUTES.COM | BUSINESS STORIES The Business Stories series from the 50Minutes collection provides the tools to quickly understand the innovative companies that have shaped the modern business world. Our publications will give you contextual information, an analysis of business strategies and an introduction to future trends and opportunities in a clear and easily digestible format, making them the ideal starting point for readers looking to understand what makes these companies stand out.
Download or read book The Agility Advantage written by Amanda Setili and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to win market leadership in a fast-changing world In the past, companies could pick a strategy and stick with it, maintaining a competitive edge for years. But today, companies surge ahead, fall behind, or even disappear in mere months. If you and your company are going to thrive for the long run, you need to continuously evolve, change, and stay a step ahead of your competition. The ability to see and capitalize on new opportunities is the cornerstone of agility. Successful technology-based firms like Google, Tesla, and Amazon have all mastered agility within their core business practices, but companies in any sector can—and must—learn to spot new opportunities and make the right choices about what to invest in, what to change, and what to abandon. The Agility Advantage first shows how to identify those aspects of your business where agility is most crucial—where the business environment is changing fast—and which elements have the greatest impact on the customer’s decision to buy. Amanda Setili then shows how to master the three components of agility: Market agility: Gain ideas from your most demanding and forward-thinking customers and from outside your industry. Engage, observe, and mix with customers to identify the opportunities created by their changing demands. Decision agility: Anticipate the changes that may affect you and turn even troubling trends into opportunities. Design your strategy to maximize learning and to manage risk. Generate diverse alternatives and make fast, fact-based decisions about which to pursue. Execution agility: Build new capabilities, shed what doesn’t fit, and take the first steps in a new direction. Experiment, then reinforce and build on what works. Enlist and inspire your organization around a compelling purpose and grant employees the autonomy and resources to continuously adapt and adjust course. The future will present more opportunities but narrower windows to capture them. With a wealth of valuable information and practical strategies, The Agility Advantage is essential reading to help any organization adapt and thrive—both today and tomorrow.
Download or read book Working Backwards written by Colin Bryar and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working Backwards is an insider's breakdown of Amazon's approach to culture, leadership, and best practices from Colin Bryar and Bill Carr, two long-time, top-level Amazon executives...
Download or read book Amazon written by Natalie Berg and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the secret to Amazon's success? What does the ecommerce giant have in store for the future? Explore the disruptive new retail strategies of the world's most relentless retailer and gain valuable lessons that can be applied to any business in the ecommerce sector, with original insight from the company as it continues to revolutionize itself even further. The retail industry is facing unprecedented challenges. Across all sectors and markets, retailers are shifting their business models and customer engagement strategies to ensure they survive. The rise of online shopping, and its primary player, Amazon, is at the heart of these changes and opportunities. Amazon's relentless dissatisfaction with the status quo is what makes it such an extraordinary retailer. This book explores whether Amazon has what it takes to become a credible grocery retailer, and as it transitions to bricks and mortar retailing, investigates whether Amazon's stores can be as compelling as its online offering. Exploring the ecommerce giant's strategies, Amazon offers unique insight into how innovations such voice technology, checkout-free stores and its Prime ecosystem, will fundamentally change the way consumers shop. Written by industry leading retail analysts who have spent decades providing research-based analysis and opinion on retail strategy and enterprise technology use in retail, Amazon analyzes the impact these initiatives will have on the wider retail sector and the lessons that can be learned from its unprecedented rise to dominance - as stores of the future become less about transactions and more about experiences.
Download or read book To What Extent Is Amazon s Success Based On Their Supply Chain Management written by Moritz Puhrsch and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2019-11-13 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2019 in the subject Business economics - Supply, Production, Logistics, grade: B, , language: English, abstract: To what extent is Amazon’s success based on their supply chain management? Amazon.com, Inc. is an American internet company which started as an online bookstore and was founded 24 years ago on July 5th 1994 by Jeff Bezos under the name Cadabra. The name was changed quickly in 1995 to its current name. The hugely successful tech giant, which was founded in a primitive garage in Seattle, now has a market cap of over US$1 trillion and is therefore the second most valuable public company in the world behind just Apple. It has even more impressive facts to offer such as being the largest Internet retailer in the world and second largest employer in the United states after Walmart or being the fastest company ever to reach $100billion in sales revenue within one year, taking only 20 years. At the end of 2018 Amazon had 647.500 employees, mainly thanks to its sprawling logistics network, and in the second quartile of 2018 it reported an impressive net income of $2.5 billion with the revenue being $52.9 billion.
Download or read book Amazon for CMOs written by Mark Power and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bezonomics written by Brian Dumaine and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeff Bezos has become the era's biggest business story. At one point the richest man on the planet, Amazon's executive chairman has built one of the most efficient wealth-creation machines in history with more than 2 percent of U.S. household income currently being spent on the hundreds of millions of products speedily shipped from the company's global warehouses. All this convenience, however, has a cost. "Bezonomics" promises massive job disruptions and the further infiltration of AI and Big Tech into our lives. In Bezonomics, award-winning Fortune magazine writer Brian Dumaine unveils the principles Bezos uses to gain increasing market power - customer obsession, extreme innovation, and long-term thinking, all driven by artificial intelligence - and shows how these tactics are being replicated by companies worldwide. If you want to know what the most unstoppable business model of the future will look like, this is a vital read.
Download or read book Success Secrets of Amazon written by Steve Anderson and published by Jaico Publishing House. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeff Bezos’ 14 Winning Principles Jeff Bezos created one of the world’s most valuable companies and, in the process, became the world’s richest person. Amazon was the fastest company to reach $100 billion in sales ever. And, Bezos started by selling books online. How did he do it? Fortunately, Bezos has provided the “hidden in plain sight” roadmap he used. If followed, business owners can’t help but become more successful. For the last 21 years, Bezos has personally written letters to shareholders that reveal the underlying principles and strategies he used to grow Amazon. For the first time, Success Secrets of Amazon unlocks the key lessons, mindset, principles, and steps Bezos continues to use to make Amazon the massive success it is today. Applying these principles helps drive higher, faster results. Anderson shows business owners, executives, and leaders how to apply Bezos’ practices to watch their business become more efficient, productive, and successfulfast! STEVE ANDERSON has spent over three decades of his career helping the insurance industry understand, integrate, and leverage current and emerging technologies. From business management systems to social media, Steve analyzes what’s happening now and explains its implications for the future. He was invited to be one of the original 150 “thought leaders/influencers” on LinkedIn and has over 300,000 followers. Steve currently resides in Franklin, Tennessee. “If you ever wanted one manual for building and growing your business, this is it.” DAN MILLER New York Times Bestselling Author
Download or read book Shift Ahead written by Allen Adamson and published by AMACOM. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book taps into both success stories and cautionary tales from others to provide you with a smart, calculated approach to knowing both: 1) when to change course and 2) how to pull it off. In a world that's changing faster and more furiously than ever, the ability to shift focus is critical. Why is it that some organizations can continually evolve to meet the times and the marketplace, and others can't? How do some companies always seem to know the perfect season to shift gears, as well as the rights methods to implement when doing so, while others go down sinking when a simple shift would’ve saved everything? Packed with insightful interviews from leaders at HBO, Adobe, BlackBerry, National Geographic, Microsoft, Kodak, and elsewhere, Shift Ahead explains how to: Spot warning signs that it’s time for a reinvention Overcome obstacles standing in the way of your company’s future goals Maintain authenticity when shifting gears Execute changes seamlessly, no matter how bold they are Today more than at any other time before, knowing when to shift, and how to do so successfully, is the key to remaining competitive. With Shift Ahead, this difficult yet imperative maneuver will become the key to your company’s long-term success!
Download or read book The Amazing Amazon written by Ivan Fernandez and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-19 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you have what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur? Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com, built his online empire from scratch. Named after the biggest river in the World, Amazon.com is now the World's largest online shopping retailer. Apart from being the owner of the world's largest internet sales company on the World Wide Web, Jeff Bezos is also the founder of Blue Origin and the owner of The Washington Post. Things were not always like that for Jeff Bezos. He started with a humble job post on Wall Street in the computer science field and then continued working in several other different jobs. Fast forward to 2017, Jeff Bezos became the World's Richest Man for several brief hours when the stock price of Amazon went up. How is Jeff Bezos different from You and I? How did he build such an insane e-commerce empire? With a deeper insight into Jeff Bezos' life and his entrepreneurial journey, The Amazing Amazon tells the story of an ultra-successful businessman, with chapters on: The achievements of Jeff Bezos and his early life The birth of the idea of the 'everything store' The journey Jeff Bezos had when leaving a safe and secure job in Wall Street to build Amazon.com The origin of Amazon.com Business and productivity lessons that you can learn from Jeff Bezos Life lessons from one of the world's most successful business mogul Leadership and how Jeff Bezos created jobs for more than 300,000 employees And so much more... "I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying" - Jeff Bezos Get a copy of The Amazing Amazon Today and absorb all the important lessons from Jeff Bezos while he was building the World's largest internet retailer. Gain Immense Insights and Inspirations by Clicking the "Add to Cart" Button at the Top of the Page P.S. Love him or hate him. Jeff Bezos is now one of the richest self-made billionaire and his growth is showing no signs of stopping. P.P.S. For every book sold, 11 meals will be donated to Feeding America Included in this book is a downloadable and printable PDF of all Jeff Bezos' Top Quotes Print it, love it, paste it and transform. Get The Amazing Amazon by Clicking the "Add to Cart" Button at the Top of the Page! Disclaimer: This book is NOT written by Jeff Bezos and is not affiliated with Jeff Bezos.
Download or read book Amazon Unbound written by Brad Stone and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-07 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of The Everything Store, an unvarnished picture of Amazon's unprecedented growth and its billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, revealing the most important business story of our time. With the publication of The Everything Store in 2013, Bloomberg journalist Brad Stone revealed how the unlikely Seattle start-up Amazon became an unexpected king of ecommerce. Since then, its founder has led Amazon to explosive growth in both size and wealth. In less than ten years, Amazon has quintupled the size of its workforce and increased its valuation to well over a trillion dollars. Whereas Amazon used to sell only books, there is now little they don't sell, becoming the world's largest online retailer and pushing into other markets at warp speed. Between Amazon's forty subsidiaries - like Whole Foods Market, Amazon Studios in Hollywood, websites like Goodreads and IMDb, and Amazon Web Services cloud software unit, plus Bezos's purchase of the Washington Post - it's almost impossible to go a day without encountering their goods. Amazon provides us opportunities to shop, entertain, inform, communicate, store and, one day, maybe even travel to the moon. We live in a world run, supplied and controlled by Amazon. In Amazon Unbound, Stone offers the must-read follow-up to his bestseller The Everything Store, detailing the seismic changes that have taken place at Amazon over the past decade as it became one of the most powerful and feared companies in the global economy, led by one of the most powerful and feared leaders in business. He shows the acquisitions and innovations that have propelled Amazon's unprecedented growth, and the turn in public sentiment that criticises Amazon's monopolistic practices. As he charts the company's meteoric rise, Stone probes the evolution of Jeff Bezos - who started as a geeky entrepreneur but who transformed to become a fit, famed, disciplined billionaire, a man who runs Amazon with an iron fist but finds his personal life splashed over the tabloids. Definitive, timely and revelatory, Stone has provided an unvarnished portrait of a man and company that we couldn't imagine modern life without.
Download or read book How to Prepare Now for What s Next written by Michael McQueen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disruption is changing the playing field – keep your successful business on top Thriving businesses on top of their game are targets for disruption. But for savvy business owners and managers who understand the coming changes, the time to future-proof their successful companies is now. Following over a decade of research into future trends, business reinvention and disruptive innovation, author Michael McQueen presents How to Prepare Now for What’s Next, a blueprint for top companies to thrive in turbulent times. McQueen brings rare insight to the topic of business disruption. The book first explores the notion of disruption itself, and confirms that the term is much more than just guru-speak. The book outlines the four primary forms of disruption that McQueen sees playing out over the next 5-10 years, and quickly moves on to the in-depth tools, tips and techniques that healthy businesses will need to stay on top. Use a simple tool to assess just how vulnerable to disruption your company is Read case studies, research and trend reports that highlight real-world examples to complement the book’s concepts Understand the four forms of disruption, namely widescale automation, empowered consumers, unconventional competition and emerging generations Apply the 9 keys to future-proof your business against disruption and make it impervious to change The time to act is now for the businesses who want to keep their edge, and How to Prepare Now for What’s Next is the guide to continue thriving.
Download or read book The Four written by Scott Galloway and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER USA TODAY BESTSELLER Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are the four most influential companies on the planet. Just about everyone thinks they know how they got there. Just about everyone is wrong. For all that’s been written about the Four over the last two decades, no one has captured their power and staggering success as insightfully as Scott Galloway. Instead of buying the myths these companies broadcast, Galloway asks fundamental questions. How did the Four infiltrate our lives so completely that they’re almost impossible to avoid (or boycott)? Why does the stock market forgive them for sins that would destroy other firms? And as they race to become the world’s first trillion-dollar company, can anyone challenge them? In the same irreverent style that has made him one of the world’s most celebrated business professors, Galloway deconstructs the strategies of the Four that lurk beneath their shiny veneers. He shows how they manipulate the fundamental emotional needs that have driven us since our ancestors lived in caves, at a speed and scope others can’t match. And he reveals how you can apply the lessons of their ascent to your own business or career. Whether you want to compete with them, do business with them, or simply live in the world they dominate, you need to understand the Four.
Download or read book Thought Leaders written by Joel Kurtzman and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1997-12-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Best Ideas on Business?from Today?s Visionary Leaders and Thinkers In this unprecedented collection of interviews and profiles, twelve of the world?s most remarkable business leaders and thinkers tell companies what it will take to prosper in the next century. Visionary and inspiring, the contributors offer compelling insights into such topics as the strategic uses of technology, building sustainable business growth, and realizing a new corporate core while anticipating key business functions and competencies for the future. The cast includes such renowned pundits as C.K. Prahalad, Charles Handy, Gary Hamel, and Warren Bennis. Also heard are a number of powerful new voices including those of Minoru Makihara, president of Mitsubishi; Jean Rene-Fourtou, CEO of the French pharmaceutical-chemical giant Rhone-Poulenc; and Paul Romer, the brilliant Stanford economist. Always fascinating and often provocative, this work speaks to everyone who had rather be ready for tomorrow today.
Download or read book Leading From the Edge written by Annmarie Neal and published by Association for Talent Development. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The old model of globalization—including offshoring to save money—no longer applies. Globalization now means you can better position your company for innovation and growth. To be a global leader, you must change and lead from the edge. Every day as a global leader seems to be a paradox: balancing the needs of daily operations while creating conditions that drive success in the future. Rather than try to resolve that paradox, this book helps you think about how to live within it, by developing essential traits and hearing from leaders who succeed globally. Learn from seven top executives how they shifted from individual thinkers to leading and growing organizations in an ever-changing economy. Learn the specific traits and model for business professionals to emulate and achieve success in global business enterprises. Get the on-the-ground, common-sense advice that has been applied by today’s successful global executives.
