Amazon. com is an American e-commerce/retail company based in Seattle, Washington public limited company. It was one of the first major companies to sell goods over the Internet and was one of the iconic stocks of the late 1990s dot-com bubble. It was founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994, and launched in 1995, Amazon. com began as an online bookstore but soon diversified its product […]

By utilizing the SWOT analysis above and Porter’s five forces (1985) from assignment 2 I can determine which of Porter’s generic strategies will be best suited to helping Amazon be a successful organisation.By placing amazon.com on Porter’s generic strategy model we can see that they adopt a ‘Cost leadership’ strategy in the main, however they do combine this with elements of ‘Differentiation’ strategy. Cost Leadership […]

Q1: Summarize Barnes & Noble’s business strategy and business model based in the case descriptions. How have these strategy and business model been evolved since the case was written? Barnes & Noble’s business model simply put was lower cost, and SCM. They sold merchandise at lower cost and they also decreased cost associated with procurement by obtaining better discounts from publishers than other book retailers […]

Amazon.com, Inc. or www.amazon.com has a mission statement to be the most customer-centric or customer-oriented retailer on this planet, where people can browse and buy anything they want to buy online with prices as low as possible on the market. (About Amazon) They are one of the world’s most important online retailers and providers of web service. (Amazon.com Inc.) They offer a large-scale of products […]

  Company: Amazon CEO: Jeff Bezos Year founded: 1994 Headquarter: Seattle,USA Number of Employees (2018): 613,3 Public or Private: Public Ticker Symbol: AMZN Market Cap (2018): $ 778.39 Billion Annual Revenue (2018): $ 220.96 Billion Profit | Net income (2018): $ 8.9 Billion Amazon is one of the best online retailers and it will continue its success and growth into the second half of 2016. One out […]

Many companies which embarked in e-commerce had failed especially during the period of the “dot. Com bubble”. The failure of these dot-comes were due to the fact that many of these companies do not have a viable business model and they were focus mainly on increasing their market share at the expense of their bottoming. Amazon. Com is one of those companies which had survived […]

There are many different business trends shaping e-commerce today. For one, ecommerce remains the fastest growing form of commerce when compared to physical retain store, services, and entertainment. Another trend is that the online demographics of shoppers broaden to match those of ordinary shoppers. Also, small businesses and entrepreneurs continue to flood through the e-commerce marketplace, often riding on the infrastructures created by industry giants […]

Ans: From the traditional bricks and mortar industry, Amazon. com is the first company to evolve “book retailing” by going online on a large-scale. To date, Amazon. com provides an online retail store which constitutes of numerous products across a common platform. The company’s retail website includes established web portals pning across all leading economies as depicted in the case. In revolutionizing the e-commerce industry, […]

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 […]

Business Administration 1. How would you contrast Amazon’s business design with that of Barnes ; Noble before Barnes ; Noble went online? From a customer’s prospective, what are the advantages and disadvantages of each design? Customers shop by visiting Amazon.com, they can search and purchase a lot of books at once. They don’t need to visit off-line stores so they earn convenience. Also, When customers […]