2A: The computing innovation that is represented by my computational artifact is the Amazon Echo. It serves as a home speaker/personal assistant. Coming in two different versions, the Amazon Echo or the Amazon Echo Dot, both home speakers can virtually turn any home into a smart home. This innovation takes the iPhone's “Siri” to another level by performing thousands of skills such as adjust your home’s temperature, play your favorite tunes, and even order a pizza. Just by simply using the sound…
Amazon is one of the worlds largest companies worth over 292.6 billion. This company has simplified shopping and turned the convenience of shopping online and getting the items in two days or less. Amazon is not only a website. Amazon has expanded into new forms of customer-based products and markets. Amazon main market comes from digital books, Prime music, games, and Prime movies. If fact Amazon started selling book and Kindles when they first opened. Once the popularity grew so did…
Ziyi chen Now, Amazon is one of the most famous e-commerce retailers in the United States. In Figure 1, from 2004 to 2015, the net revenue of Amazon is consistently increasing every year and have earned $107.01 billion in 2015. We could observe that the speed of development is getting quicker in recent 5 years. The rapid growth rate of Amazon should be associated closely with its customers. From the other data shows, the number of active customer accounts also developed sharply between 1997…
Washington DC. Amazon sells in a vast majority of categories from books, electronics to jewelry. The online retailer highly recommended itself in the world and currently is the world’s frequently visited retail website. Over the years Amazon has been striving to offer its customers the best shopping experience at a competitive price. Owning to a far-reaching strategy, Amazon became the most customer-centric online retailer. In order to become the world’s leading online retailer, Amazon mainly…
The Norris-LaGuardia Act protected workers from the threat of yellow-dog contracts, gave unions freedom to associate without molestation by employers, and barred federal courts from issuing injunctions preventing strikes, boycotts, and picketing. If Amazon learns anything from this act, it is that the federal government takes a worker’s right to engage in unionizing activities seriously. While organized labor at Amazon.com may cause an inconvenience to the company at first, managers commit a…
compares total debt to total assets, telling the reader the proportion of assets financed by debt tools. Amazon’s debt ratio increased slightly over the last three years, from 0.76 to 0.80, and is slightly higher than Walmart’s debt ratio, 0.60. Though Amazon is a younger company fervently pursuing growth and is subsequently likely to carry more debt to finance that growth, this ratio should be watched in coming years to determine Amazon’s ability to increase assets faster than liabilities.…
Amazon is perhaps one of the most influential companies in the world of technology. Amazon is the world’s largest online retailer outside of China. This did not happen overnight. Their success was the product of years of hard work and innovation. One of the fields that they took the most advantage of was Information Technology. Without the advantages of Information Technology, Amazon would not be nearly as successful as they are today. There are many technological tools that Amazon uses to gain…
Employees that have left Amazon have said that Amazon does not have any concern for work-life balance and would expect employees to be readily available to handle work issues, even on weekends. As a result, their lack of sound policies, capable bosses and proper employee relations reveals that Amazon has an overall poor job environment. Word can spread about Amazon’s poor job environment, which will reach the ears…
Scenario 3 Q 3.1 Amazon is going to introduce a new smartphone in the market. This smartphone will have amazing features those will make online accessibility of many features easy and convenient. I per my research on this case study, Amazon’s corporate strategy am to expend its digital marketing products. The corporate strategy of Amazon is to enter into the telecom industry as well. The new smartphone will have features like taking a photo of a book and find out its availability on Amazon. By…
The Article, “Companies like Amazon Need to Run More Tests on Workplace Practices”, by Francesca Gino is a critique of the management practices of large corporations, specifically amazon. Amazon has created a unique work environment for its employees which has turned the workplace into a hostile habitat for its workers. Employees are encouraged to openly criticize coworker’s ideas in meetings, they are expected to respond to an email even if received after hours, and many employees are being…