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| the junkification of amazon: The Darwinian Trap Kristian Rönn, 2024-09-24 A provocative exploration of how humans are wired to seek short-term success at the expense of long-term survival—an evolutionary “glitch” that explains everything from toxic workplaces to climate change “Essential reading . . . a lively, ultimately hopeful examination of how incentivizing the wrong values and actions has led to some of our most intractable problems.”—Eric Ries, New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Startup When people talk about today’s biggest challenges—pollution, misinformation, artificial intelligence, inept CEOs, and politicians—they tend to frame the conversation around “bad people” doing “bad things.” But is there more to the story? Humans, it turns out, are intrinsically wired to seek short-term success at the expense of long-term prosperity. Kristian Rönn, an entrepreneur formerly affiliated with the University of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute, calls these deeply rooted impulses “Darwinian demons.” These forces, a by-product of natural selection, can lead us to act in shortsighted ways that harm others—and even imperil our survival as a species. If this evolutionary glitch is left unchecked, the consequences will grow in magnitude as the power of technology accelerates. In this eye-opening work, Rönn shows that we must learn to cooperate in new ways if we are to escape these evolutionary traps in our daily lives and solve our biggest existential threats. Evolution may be to blame for the trap—but humans need not fall for it. Our salvation, he writes, will involve the creation of new systems that understand, track, and manage what humankind values most. Bold, brilliant, and ultimately optimistic, The Darwinian Trap gives readers a powerful new lens on our world and its problems, and invites us to rethink our priorities for the sake of generations to come. |
| the junkification of amazon: 經理人特刊NO57：ChatGPT工作術 經理人月刊, 2023-07-15 編輯台時間 過時的漢嘉 捷克作家博胡米爾‧赫拉巴爾（Bohumil Hrabal）的經典名著《過於喧囂的孤獨》，故事發生在1970年代，主角漢嘉是回收站員工，他把各種書籍、廢紙、間或摻雜一些回收物，用壓力機壓碎打包。雖然上工的地下室骯髒雜亂，但他常能在回收堆裡讀到各類小說、科學、哲思等著作。35年來，他因此成為博學多聞的老人，樂在工作中。 然而，科技的巨輪輾來，城裡出現了巨型壓力機，比漢嘉用的大上20倍，工作效率和處理量也天差地別地高。廠裡聘用的操作員都是年輕人，每個人朝氣勃勃，和朽老的他形成強烈對比。漢嘉看著這一切，知道自己的時代已經過去。最後，漢嘉害怕未來被趕出猶如天堂的地下室，抱著鍾愛詩人的作品，躺進他的壓力機，啟動開關，選擇結束一切。 故事淒美又震撼，不過，我們從另一個角度看，漢嘉在面對新科技（特別是自身能力幾乎不可能企及的技術）時，他從無力到絕望，知道自己很快就要被淘汰，他的態度是否認、拒絕，覺得已被逼到懸崖邊，也不認為能存活下來。 其實每一次當科技出現大幅進步，像是工業革命、網路崛起，社會都瀰漫類似的氛圍。猶太裔德國哲學家君特‧安德斯（Günther Anders）在著作《過時的人》中描述，面對能力勝過自己千百倍的機器，人們會感到「羞愧」，覺得自己將被取代。 去年底，ChatGPT再次展現了科技的飆升，同樣有人深怕工作不保，但也有不少人主張「打不過，就加入它」。面對人工智慧來勢洶洶，如果你是漢嘉，這次會怎麼選擇？ 特約編輯 楊修 |
| the junkification of amazon: 《經理人月刊》第223期／ChatGPT立即上手 經理人月刊編輯部, 2023-06-01 Editor's Note｜ 編輯台時間 工作和機會 大概一兩個月前，我在網路上看到暢銷書《人類大歷史》出了增訂版（2022年底），基於想了解內容有何異同，我點開了作者哈拉瑞（ Yuval Noah Harari）寫的「新版序」。 文章前4段，這樣開頭和結尾：「我在2011年寫完《人類大歷史》之後，⋯⋯而那就是我想在這本書裡講的故事。」我完全忘了這幾段文字的讀後感，只記得從第5段起的敘述：「以上這些文字的英文原文，並不是由我（哈拉瑞）所寫，而是請一套強大的人工智慧（AI）程式模仿我而寫下。這套人工智慧名為GPT-3，是由舊金山一間專精於機器學習的研究實驗室所創。」 我讀到這篇序言時，正當ChatGPT在全球引爆熱議，激起了讚嘆、興奮、焦慮，甚至警覺和恐懼。哈拉瑞顯然在更早之前就體驗到GPT的威力，他的一些反應和回應，我只能說是感同身受：「GPT-3這篇文本最驚人的一點在於：它還真的是讀得通的，不只是把幾個句子隨機丟在一起，而有著連貫的邏輯。」「讀著那些文字，簡直下巴都要掉下來。」 雖然哈拉瑞在驚嘆之餘，也慶幸說，「這讓我暫時鬆了一口氣：GPT-3並不會搶走我的工作，至少看來還得再過個好幾年。」但是身為讀者，我得老實招認，在讀新版序的前幾段時，真的沒能評判出觀點的好壞、是不是出自作者，更別說看出是AI寫的了。對我來說，運用慣常的閱讀方式，那就是一篇流暢的文章，或許還點頭稱是了。 哈拉瑞士歷史專家，「對於GPT-3寫出的文字，我得花上1、2分鐘仔細閱讀，才能得出結論，知道那不是我寫的內容。」他也暫時不擔心工作被搶走。但是那個「至少看來還得再過個好幾年」，是幾年呢？到底是機器學習得快，還是人類學得快？ 關於科技會搶走「人類工作」的議題，已經吵了幾百年。雖然這次有關AI的爭論，更多是關於「人類」本身，但是不可諱言，隨著人工智慧看似愈來愈貼近人類原本自以為無可取代的智慧，探討關於人與機器的關係，只會愈來愈迫切。 我安撫自身焦慮的方式，可以用我分別在2本書裡看到的段落說明。在《變動思維》提到，「在瑞典，國家的政策要保護的是人，不是工作。」在《5000天後的世界》裡，針對人工智慧將會衝擊沒有創造力，只能憑生產力存活的人這個問題，答案則是，「沒有人只能專門追求生產力和效率。」 人類具備學習的能力，可以learn，relearn和unlearn，如果機器可以幫我們做掉制式、機械、枯燥、乏味的工作，甚或協助我們發揮創造力，那這真的是一個好的時機去思考：我們到底要做什麼？還可以做些別的什麼？ 總編輯 齊立文 |
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| the junkification of amazon: Amazon and the Rise of E-commerce 50minutes,, 2017-09-22 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. |
| the junkification of amazon: Bezonomics Brian Dumaine, 2020-05-12 An “illuminating, lucid, and finely detailed” (The Washington Post) look at Amazon’s world-dominating business model, the current competitors either imitating or trying to outfox Amazon, and “how Jeff Bezos turned Amazon into the world’s lockdown necessity” (The Times, UK)—from an award-winning Fortune magazine writer. Like Henry Ford, Sam Walton, or Steve Jobs in the early years of Ford, Walmart, and Apple, Jeff Bezos is the business story of the decade. Bezos, the richest man on the planet, has built one of the most efficient wealth-creation machines in history with more than 2% of US household income being spent on nearly 500 million products shipped from warehouses in seventeen countries. Amazon’s business model has not only turned the retail industry and cloud computing inside out, but now its tentacles are squeezing media and advertising, and disrupting the state of technology, the economy, job creation, and society at large. Amazon’s impact is so pervasive that business leaders in nearly every sector around the world need to understand how this force of nature operates. Based on unprecedented behind-the-scenes reporting from 150 sources inside and outside of Amazon, Bezonomics unveils the underlying principles Jeff Bezos uses to achieve his dominance—customer obsession, extreme innovation, and long-term management, all supported by artificial intelligence—and shows how these are being borrowed and replicated by companies across the United States, in China, and elsewhere. Including tips for Amazon-proofing your business, Bezonomics answers the fundamental question: How are Amazon and its imitators affecting the way we live, and what can we learn from them? A goldmine for some, and a threat for others, “Bezonomics” has proven to be a life-shaping force in our lives both now and in the foreseeable future. |
| the junkification of amazon: How to Resist Amazon and Why Danny Caine, 2021-03-09 When a company's workers are literally dying on the job, when their business model relies on preying on local businesses and even their own vendors, when their CEO is the richest person in the world while their workers make low wages with impossible quotas... wouldn't you want to resist? Danny Caine, owner of Raven Book Store in Lawrence, Kansas has been an outspoken critic of the seemingly unstoppable Goliath of the bookselling world: Amazon. In this book, he lays out the case for shifting our personal money and civic investment away from global corporate behemoths and to small, local, independent businesses. Well-researched and lively, his tale covers the history of big box stores, the big political drama of delivery, and the perils of warehouse work. He shows how Amazon's ruthless discount strategies mean authors, publishers, and even Amazon themselves can lose money on every book sold. And he spells out a clear path to resistance, in a world where consumers are struggling to get by. In-depth research is interspersed with charming personal anecdotes from bookstore life, making this a readable, fascinating, essential book for the 2020s. |
| the junkification of amazon: Amazon and the Rise of E-commerce 50minutes, 2017-09-22 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. |
| the junkification of amazon: Amazon's Dirty Little Secrets Greg Jameson, 2014-08-01 Many people believe that Amazon’s success is the direct result of a strong user shopping experience. This however is only part of the reason why Amazon is the number one ecommerce company in the world for almost two decades. The real reason behind Amazon’s success is that they have mastered the art of getting other people to market and sell for them. From affiliate partners that drive traffic, to online reviews and ratings where customers tell other customers why they should buy a product, to getting free publicity from shows like Oprah or 60 Minutes, Amazon is the online company to emulate. “Amazon’s Dirty Little Secrets will show you how you can accomplish this for your company. Amazon’s Dirty Little Secret is getting others to do their marketing and sales for them. This is so powerful that Greg created an acronym using the word POWER+. P – Plenty of traffic O – Offer something for free W – Win their trust E – Engaging experience R – Request an action + – additional tips & secrets Anyone engaged in Internet sales and marketing will benefit from the specific examples in this book. |
| the junkification of amazon: Amazon.com: The Company and Its Founder Erika Wittekind, 2012-01-01 This title examines the remarkable life of Jeff Bezos and his work building the groundbreaking e-commerce company Amazon.com. Readers will learn about Bezo's background and education, as well as his early career. Also covered is a look at how Amazon.com operates, issues the company faces, its successes, and its impact on society. Color photos and informative sidebars accompany easy-to-read, compelling text. Features include a timeline, facts, additional resources, Web sites, a glossary, a bibliography, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO. |
| the junkification of amazon: Why Amazon Is Successful As A Global E-Commerce Company, How Amazon Benefits Stakeholders, Amazon's Successful Business Culture, Amazon's Decentralized Organizational Structure, And Amazon's Strategies For Long Term Success Dr Harrison Sachs, 2020-05-28 This essay sheds light on Amazon's organizational environment, stakeholders, business culture, organizational structure, strategies, and value providers. The ample factors of Amazon's organizational environment play a paramount role in Amazon's profound success and unprecedented profitability as a multibillion dollar e-commerce company. Amazon's key stakeholders are Amazon's investors, employees, directors, owners (shareholders), customers, associates, third party sellers, and the community from which the business draws its resources (stakeholder, n.d.). Amazon benefits their stakeholders in a myriad of different ways, such as by having created a slew of stable jobs for Amazon's employees, third party sellers, associates, and suppliers. Also, Amazon benefits communities by giving consumers the opportunity to conveniently purchase from millions of items from the comfort of their own homes twenty-four-seven for lower prices than competitors products. For the most part, the value of Amazon's stock keeps consistently increasing (Amazon.com, inc. (nasdaq: amzn), 2012). Amazon intends to retain all future earnings to finance future growth and, therefore, does not anticipate paying any cash dividends in the foreseeable future (Faqs, n.d.). As a low cost leader, Amazon holds a significant amount of the market share throughout an exorbitant amount of markets, is set up to run cost-effectively, and heavily invests in research and development efforts to bolster long term financial growth. Amazon's business culture can be defined as a role culture. A role culture is a culture with a rule of law with clear responsibility and reward system that provides stability, justice, and efficiency (Business culture, n.d.). Amazon's vision is to be the Earth's most customer oriented company. This business model of Amazon.com is based on retaining customers for a considerable number of years -- twelve years by some analysts' forecasts -- in order to develop deep, continuing relationships that will justify the company's heavy investment in its' site (Weinstein, 2012, p. 33-195). One can conclude that Amazon's business culture seems to be a desirable environment for employees to work in since it punctuates the continual strive for long term growth and success. Amazon organizational structure is a decentralized organizational structure. This means that the decision making power is distributed and the departments and divisions may have different degrees of independence (organizational structure, n.d.). The distribution of power allows Amazon's individual departments to operate more efficaciously without being as greatly encumbered by corporate bureaucracy as they otherwise would if they were a centralized organization. Amazon utilizes a myriad of strategies to enhance and streamline their consumer's shopping experience which ultimately allows them to retain the lifetime value of their consumers. Amazon implements a product differentiation strategy to create more innovative products. Amazon also continues to exhibit a low cost leadership strategy. Furthermore, Amazon offers their consumers excellent customer service, recommends products to their individual consumers based on product recommendation algorithms, offers promotional items for pre-ordering their products, offers free shipping for orders above the twenty five dollar threshold, offers fulfillment and distribution services to third party sellers, and Amazon generates sales revenue from the sales of third party sellers on their website. Amazon also generates substantial sales revenue from authors who publish their eBooks and physical books on their platform. Amazon is also very easy to navigate through, has meticulous product descriptions, has insightful customer reviews, and simplifies the buying experience into being parred down to only a few clicks. Furthermore, Amazon is open twenty-four-seven which augments the level of convenience associated with purchasing products |
| the junkification of amazon: Amazon Natalie Berg, Miya Knights, 2019-01-03 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. |
| the junkification of amazon: Amazon Unbound Brad Stone, 2021-05-11 'Amazon Unbound' is an unvarnished picture of Amazon's unprecedented growth and its billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, revealing the most important business story of our time. From the author of 'The Everything Store'. |
| the junkification of amazon: To What Extent Is Amazon’s Success Based On Their Supply Chain Management? Moritz Puhrsch, 2019-11-13 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. |
| the junkification of amazon: Amazon Adam Sutherland, 2016-01-01 Find out how Amazon became the world's largest online retailer. Discover how the company started by developing a unique way to sell books and grew into a giant of the e-commerce industry in a short span of time. This book unveils: ● The people behind Amazon's revolutionary retail and product development strategies. ● The technological innovation driven by Amazon, from the Kindle to the Fire Phone. ● What the future might hold for Amazon, from drone delivery to space travel! From the battle for e-books to Amazon's marketing savvy, this book examines the factors that led to amazing developments for the e-commerce industry as a whole. |
| the junkification of amazon: Amazon Benedetta Brevini, Lukasz Swiatek, 2020-11-26 Taking a political economy of media approach, this book examines Amazon as a significant actor in the global media landscape. Amazon is mainly conceived in the popular consciousness and media commentary as a corporate body, selling products and services to individual consumers and organisations, but Brevini and Swiatek show that Amazon has become a communication giant that trades in diversified media (its own and others), and exerts a significant influence on global communication, especially through its online services. Further, the authors provide evidence of Amazon's multiple influences on politics, economics, and culture. With its comprehensive and critical overview, this book is ideal for students, scholars, and researchers of media and communication studies and political economy. |
| the junkification of amazon: Amazon Benjamin Wall, 2019-09-03 In Amazon: Managing Extraordinary Success in 5-D Value, Benjamin Wall offers structured insights into strategically managing value in the key relationships to customers, personnel, business partners, and investors in order to improve value management at any company. The extraordinary success of Amazon is due to market-leading strength in three “dimensions” of value: owning the mightiest supply chain to deliver fastest and cheapest the broadest range of products, enhancing what customers and business partners are doing when using the website / online ecosystem, and knowing how to implement the optimal terms and conditions in the after-sales customer experience. Wall takes a look at the unique managerial skill of Amazon and how each of these organizational areas operates externally and internally according to a separate business logic based on a dimension of value. In an original examination, Wall systematically evaluates Amazon by categorizing and connecting its external and internal success factors to dimensions of value. Each “score” on an external success factor is linked to an internal success factor in managing processes, organizational culture, and the business model, so that managers and leaders can enhance their own internal success factors and move towards the same successful external factors. Amazon looks to the future where the near-term promise of the company is evaluated to be in the development from online to omnichannel retail, including the sale of services, by reviving out of Amazon’s past the fourth dimension of value: feeling how to integrate value. The long-term potential of Amazon is set in the context of a sustainable future for retail, based on trends arising today in meaning across multiple communities, which is the emerging fifth dimension of value. Amazon is projected to operate in this value dimension again as a disruptor, and with Wall’s help, managers and leaders can reach for the same kind of success. |
| the junkification of amazon: Amazon.com Robert Spector, 2002-01-22 In Amazon.com Jeff Bezos built something the world had never seen. He created the most recognized brand name on the Internet, became for a time one of the richest men in the world, and was crowned the king of cyber-commerce. Yet for all the media exposure, the inside story of Amazon.com has never really been told. In this revealing, unauthorized account, Robert Spector, journalist and best-selling author, gives us this up-to-date, fast-paced, behind-the-scenes story of the company's creation and rise, its tumultuous present, and its uncertain future. |
| the junkification of amazon: The Amazing Amazon Ivan Fernandez, Mode on Publishing, 2017-11-19 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. |
| the junkification of amazon: One Click Richard L. Brandt, 2012-12-31 Amazon’s business model is deceptively simple: Make online shopping so easy and convenient that customers won’t think twice. It almost can be summed up by the button on every page: “Buy now with one click.” Why has Amazon been so successful? Much of it has to do with Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO, whose unique combination of character traits and business strategy has driven Amazon to the top of the online retail world. Richard Brandt charts Bezos’s rise from computer nerd to world-changing entrepreneur. Through interviews with Amazon employees, competitors, and observers, Brandt has deciphered how Bezos makes decisions. The story of Amazon’s ongoing evolution is a case study in how to reinvent an entire industry, and one that businesses today ignore at their peril. |
| the junkification of amazon: The Future of Amazon John Moritz, 2018-06-19 John Moritz is a former Amazon executive who shares his thoughts for where the world's biggest disruptor could be heading over the next 100 years.Year 2099: Outer Space When I first joined Amazon, I heard about how Jeff Bezos talked publicly about his dream for earth to someday be a large park for humans. Manufacturing will disappear from the planet.Robots will do manufacturing in space. Humans are freed from repetitive and mundane jobs. Most humans do not like these jobs anyways. Products and goods will be flown from space to earth in autonomous aircraft.The robots will pick up the trash while they are here and dump it in space where it can float away.We can pollute outer space as much as we want. It doesn't make any sense to pollute the planet where we live.At this moment, I realize the man who will have biggest impact on humanity over the next 100 years is not any government, politician or world leader. It is Jeff Bezos.Year 2040: Printed Meals What are the implications to farming and world hunger if food can be printed instead of harvested?What will happen to land values when humans learn they do not need to have vast tracts of land available for farming?How will humans settle throughout the world once they do not have to worry about food?What is the biggest risk to Amazon's eCommerce business? How does Amazon get disrupted?The answer is the advancing technology of 3-D printing. If we do not need to ship products in the future, then what happens to all retailers both online and in-store?When will we be able to 3-D print a new TV?When will we be able to 3-D print a fresh, big and juicy, bright red strawberry?When will a Filet Mignon, cooked well-done, with the best seasonings be able to be printed?How does Amazon participate in 3-D printing?Think Amazon Alexa.Who will we ask to make our favorite dinner as we sit in the comfort of our home on the couch? We may ask her, Alexa, make me my favorite dinner.In the future, Alexa may do a lot more for us than she does today.Year 2035: Smart City Grids and Highway Systems Imagine a world where autonomous cars, vans, trucks, and buses communicate with one another. It is winter. There is an ice patch in one lane of a highway. A car drives over the ice and swerves.The car tells other cars behind it where the ice is so they can avoid it. Vision AI in highway cameras proactively tells the next salt truck to drop extra salt on the ice patch. What if a car tire goes flat causing it to swerve into oncoming traffic?The swerving car alerts oncoming traffic instantly. AI in the cloud navigates all vehicles involved in a potential collision to safety.In the future, will vehicle accidents decline to zero?Imagine a world where cameras on every street corner communicate with building security systems, police, firemen, and autonomous vehicles.Imagine yourself walking down a city alley late at night. You have no fear of being attacked or mugged because AI protects you. You may ask Amazon Alexa to accompany you on your walk. She follows you digitally in the cloud via cameras like a personal bodyguard looking out for your well-being.The cameras on every street corner stream their data to the cloud and AI connects the data in ways humans find helpful.A thief tries to steal your purse?Alexa instantly sounds sirens, turns on flashing lights, takes a video of the criminal, tries to identify the criminal, calls police, and tracks the criminal as he or she flees the scene. |
| the junkification of amazon: Amazon® Aurelia Jackson, 2014-11-17 Today, Amazon.com is the world's most successful online store, selling everything from hand soap to computer parts, from books to children's toys. But Amazon wasn't always the amazing success it is now. Years ago, Amazon.com was just the dream of one person: Jeff Bezos. Learn about the man behind one of the most successful online businesses of all time. Discover how he started Amazon and led the company to incredible success. Find out how Jeff and Amazon are planning to change the future of online shopping. |
| the junkification of amazon: Management Case Study Amazon. Analysis and Decision Making Ricardo Escoda, 2018-05-17 Case Study from the year 2018 in the subject Business economics - General, grade: 1,7, International School of Management, Campus Munich, language: English, abstract: As the number of publications referring to Amazon increased formidable during the last years, it is a highly discussed retail brand, which is becoming more and more important. In July 2016, the UK trade marketing association DMA1 published a study showing Amazon as favorite retail brand amongst competitors like John Lewis, Marks & Spencer, eBay and ASOS. Every fourth of the 1000 participants voted for Amazon, even though they were not given a shortlist with answers, but an empty text-box to fill in their favorable retail brand. This paper deals with aspects referring to the research fields Advanced Strategic Man- agement, Business Development and International Business Game. At the end of each part a summary with the most fundamental information helps to build a broad overview. |
| the junkification of amazon: The Cost of Free Shipping Jake Alimahomed-Wilson, Ellen Reese, 2020 'Amazon Capitalism' grows ever stronger. This book provides the answers on how to fight the company's terrifying omnipotence. |
| the junkification of amazon: Think Like Amazon: 50 1/2 Ideas to Become a Digital Leader John Rossman, 2019-04-29 “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. Use the “working backwards” innovation and problem-solving approach to lead the way. 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. |
| the junkification of amazon: Amazon.com Robert Spector, 2000 This text offers an account of Amazon's pioneering role in e-commerce, and an examination of the business models and strategies upon which its success is based. The author also explores the company's future and its future influence. |
| the junkification of amazon: Amazon Prime Patricia Wilson, 2018-02-15 AMAZON PRIME THE WORLD'S LEADING SUBSCRIPTION BUSINESS Amazon is the world's leading e-commerce business and Amazon Prime is considered a significant part of Amazon's great success whose primary purpose is to create loyalty between Amazon and its customers. Amazon Prime: The world's leading subscription business is a book about how Amazon with Jeff Bezos as a charismatic, inspiring and risk taking leader has managed to create one of the most successful and inspirational subscription business by changing not only how we purchase, but also why and when we purchase. How can you build your own subscription business or improve the one that you already have? This book takes you on a journey through the corners of Amazon Prime and gives the answers to what others can learn from Amazon. Contents: Overview: Main points and conclusions Introduction: Amazon Prime - the world's most successful subscription business? Behind Prime Behind the success - the 'golden handcuffs'; benefits for subscribers Prime in numbers The development of Prime The long-term strategy behind Prime AmazonFresh and PrimeFresh Conclusion: What can others learn from Amazon? About Subscrybe |
| the junkification of amazon: The Dark Side of Amazon Fba Malik Johnson, 2017-08-27 One of the most powerful platforms to define the Internet as a whole is the Amazon marketplace. It is a multibillion Dollar endeavor that has consistently created wealth for hundreds, if not thousands, of entrepreneurs. At the center of Amazon's key success factor is the FBA - Fulfilled by Amazon. It is the single most powerful concept in online retail and it represents a potential avenue for you to create your wealth and advance your business.In this book, we look at the ideas behind FBA and the concepts that have brought this generation's key business segment to life. It is the only way that you can reach any buyer located in any corner of the world and sell him whatever you have. We tell you how to do it.The strategies behind being successful with FBA can be complicated, but we break them down, make them simple for you to institute, and implement in short order. The book illustrates the simple strategies and gives you the path to the complex strategies and actions that you can take to make Amazon work for you.If you are already in it, then this is the book that is going to set you up on an arc that will surpass your goals. There are strategies that you need to implement, mindsets that you need to change, and avenues of strategy that you need to include before you can take your game to the next level. You will find it here. |
| the junkification of amazon: Amazon Domination Dave Bryant, Michael Jackness, 2019-06-05 Learn how to launch your new products on Amazon to New Best Sellers. Find out the exact system we've used on dozens of products to get immediate traction and sales. Best of all, we'll also help to guide you through the process of vetting products before you commit substantial money to making a large order for them.In this book we'll show you a completely white hat system for launching new products to instant success. |
| the junkification of amazon: Performance of Amazon during the Corona-Crisis and Dot-com Bubble. Corporate Strategy, Liquidity, Revenue and Profit Jagnoor Bhalla, 2021-04-20 Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance, grade: 1,3, University of Applied Sciences Augsburg, language: English, abstract: This paper will examine the corporate success of Amazon.com, Inc. in times of the dot-com bubble compared to its performance in times of the corona-crisis. The comparison of the company during these financial crises will include corporate strategy, the company’s liquidity, revenue and profit. It will also analyse stock prices and the performance on the stock market, as well as the number of employees and their compensation as indicators for its financial situation and the company’s success. Looking at the global economy, it is clear to see that financial crises are occurring from time to time, challenging companies in many ways to innovate and find solutions and get through financially instable times with minimal losses. There are also different types of crises which are weakening especially certain economic sectors. The internet-crisis and the corona-crisis both had an immense impact on the financial market and the business world. Considering these two crises which are very different, or almost contradictory to each other, it seems to be interesting to compare the performance of an internet company, which began as one of these dot-com startups during the internet crisis, but is still innovative and successful to this day, even during the corona crisis. |
| the junkification of amazon: The Amazon Way John Rossman, 2014 A look at Amazon's management style from an insider's perspective. |
| the junkification of amazon: The Story of Amazon. com Sara Gilbert, 2013-01-15 For use in schools and libraries only. A look at the origins, leaders, growth, and products of Amazon.com, the electronic commerce company that was founded in 1994 and today is the largest online retailer in the United States. |
| the junkification of amazon: Working Backwards Colin Bryar, Bill Carr, 2021-02-23 Working Backwards is an insider's breakdown of Amazon's approach to culture, leadership, and best practices from two long-time, top-level Amazon executives. Colin started at Amazon in 1998; Bill joined in 1999. In Working Backwards, these two long-serving Amazon executives reveal and codify the principles and practices that drive the success of one of the most extraordinary companies the world has ever known. With twenty-seven years of Amazon experience between them, much of it in the early aughts-a period of unmatched innovation that brought products and services including Kindle, Amazon Prime, Amazon Studios, and Amazon Web Services to life-Bryar and Carr offer unprecedented access to the Amazon way as it was refined, articulated, and proven to be repeatable, scalable, and adaptable. With keen analysis and practical steps for applying it at your own company-no matter the size-the authors illuminate how Amazon's fourteen leadership principles inform decision-making at all levels and reveal how the company's culture has been defined by four characteristics: customer obsession, long-term thinking, eagerness to invent, and operational excellence. Bryar and Carr explain the set of ground-level practices that ensure these are translated into action and flow through all aspects of the business. Working Backwards is a practical guidebook and a corporate narrative, filled with the authors' in-the-room recollections of what Being Amazonian is like and how it has affected their personal and professional lives. They demonstrate that success on Amazon's scale is not achieved by the genius of any single leader, but rather through commitment to and execution of a set of well-defined, rigorously-executed principles and practices-shared here for the very first time. |
| the junkification of amazon: Amazon Natalie Berg, Miya Knights, 2021-10-26 Gain insights into Amazon's inner workings and the secrets behind its disruptive strategies, to learn valuable lessons that can be applied to retailers globally. |
| the junkification of amazon: The KAVAJ Case Joerg Kundrath, Kai Klement, 2015-09-04 How would your life change if your product was on page one of Amazon search results? Do you have dreams of growing your brand to a global scale? Do you want to own a business and still have a great family life? Do you need a mentor to help you reach your greatest potential? Do you find selling on Amazon intimidating or mysterious? Joerg Kundrath and Kai Klement met in college and discovered they had more in common than just a math class, they both wanted to build a company. There was one issue; they had to figure out what to sell. Four years later, they are one of the biggest iPad and iPhone genuine leather case sellers on Amazon. This is the story of how they built their successful friendship, thriving company and fulfilling lives. It also serves as a blueprint for you to do the same thing. |
| the junkification of amazon: The Pros and Cons of Amazon Delivery Business Riley Money, 2019-10-08 Amazon is a marvel оf modern logistics аnd ѕhірріng technology. Services lіkе Amazon Prіmе and оthеr Amazon расkаgе dеlіvеrіеѕ wоuldn't be роѕѕіblе without a careful coordination оf warehouses, ѕhірріng carriers, and delivery drivers. Wіth аll іtѕ ѕорhіѕtісаtіоn, hоwеvеr, Amazon ѕtіll rеlіеѕ heavily оn trаdіtіоnаl саrrіеrѕ lіkе FedEx, USPS, and UPS tо deliver mаnу оf іtѕ packages. Idеаllу, Amаzоn wоuld lіkе tо cut thеѕе costs, and thеу'vе found a nеw wау. Amаzоn recently launched a program саllеd Amаzоn Lоgіѕtісѕ, whісh аllоwѕ entrepreneurs tо own аnd ореrаtе thеіr оwn Amazon dеlіvеrу ѕеrvісе frаnсhіѕеѕ. Thеѕе small buѕіnеѕѕеѕ wіll help Amazon ѕоlvе thе lаѕt mіlе delivery рrоblеm, whісh іѕ thе іѕѕuе оf hоw tо gеt packages thе fіnаl distance from thе warehouse to thе сuѕtоmеr. Thе рrоgrаm has lоw ѕtаrtuр соѕtѕ (еѕресіаllу соmраrеd to оthеr tуреѕ of businesses уоu could start), аnd a rеѕресtаblе рrоfіt роtеntіаl іѕ there fоr іndіvіduаlѕ whо are willing tо wоrk hаrd аnd manage a tеаm. So hоw саn уоu take advantage of this еxсіtіng nеw program? In thіѕ guіdе, we'll tаkе a look. Wе'll examine hоw Amаzоn delivery franchises work, thеіr ѕtаrtuр соѕtѕ аnd earning роtеntіаl, and hоw уоu can аррlу to ѕtаrt your оwn franchise today. |
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| the junkification of amazon: How to Source Products on Amazon Fba George Pain, 2018-03-08 Are you getting started with Amazon FBA seller trying to figure out how to source products? If you''re reading this that likely means you''ve heard of Amazon FBA or private label products being bandied around online or from other entrepreneurs. Perhaps you''re already quite experienced in this field and are interested in how others run their business or perhaps you''re simply curious about what the fuss is all about. In a nut shell, Amazon FBA can be compared to what eBay was 10 years ago, in terms of the opportunity it provides to earn money online. The actual technicalities of how FBA and private labelling works will be covered in the next two chapters. For those that are merely curious about it, we''d guess it''s because you''ve heard that it''s a lucrative way for almost anyone to make money or a living from. Shit, maybe you''ve even heard that people are able to run their private label businesses from the beach and only spend an hour a day maintaining it. Despite a beautiful picture of working on the beach in leisure with your laptop by your side, sun shining overhead, and the calls of nature in the background as waves crash on the shore with birds soaring through the blue skies, trust us when we say it really isn''t as fun or nice as it sounds. There''s sand everywhere! Getting into your laptop, pants, bags, and if it''s a windy day, it''s just blowing sand on you and the friction can be so hard the sand actually stings you. The glare from the sun on the laptop makes it insanely hard to see what''s happening, especially if you''ve got sunglasses on. The amount of shit you have to deal with while trying to work on the beach goes on and on but if there''s only one takeaway from this book, save yourself the hassle and don''t try to work on the beach for anything. Okay, rant over. It''s possible you''ve heard claims of people making $1,000 dollars a day and this could range from groups of housewives to the unemployed making bank in a ridiculously short amount of time. Some go even further to claim they''ve made millions in just their first year, and what do they do now that they''re millionaires? They sell books, courses, and products about how they made they''re millions. Not to rag on these people too much as we know some who are actually legit and know what they''re talking about and doing, but a lot of these people out there going about touting their courses aren''t offering a whole lot of value for what they''re charging or are simply sharing outdated information as they aren''t actively selling in the Amazon marketplace anymore as they now make their living from selling their education based products. This book has been designed to provide a roadmap for you to follow step by step (for the most part) to selecting the best niche or product for you so that you can create a successful private label business. It would be a lie to say everything in the business is going to be easy. The actual processes and steps we provide are easy no doubt, and you may experience slight hiccups here and there. For the most part you will just need to put in the time and effort to follow through on what''s laid out for you (this is the difficult or easy part depending on you). Note that there will be struggles along the way to your success in this business. Anything worth having doesn''t always come easy. We will provide the structure and roadmap for you to follow but it''s up to you to TAKE ACTION and FOLLOW it through till the end. If you slack off at any point of the roadmap you will only decrease your chances of success. We''re here to make sure you maximize your possibility of success. Here''s What''s Included In this Book: What is Amazon FBA Sourcing? Sourcing from local suppliers Sourcing from Alibaba Alternatives to Alibaba Dealing with Customs Regulations Best Method for you Scroll up and download now |
| the junkification of amazon: Amazon Fba Riley Money, 2019-10-08 I аm sure уоu hаvе hеаrd of Amаzоn. It іѕ the largest оnlіnе rеtаіlеr in thе USA, UK аnd muсh оf Europe. A hоuѕеhоld nаmе. But what уоu mіght nоt knоw іѕ thаt when уоu purchase something frоm Amazon, thеrе is a vеrу gооd сhаnсе thаt уоu are buуіng frоm a thіrd раrtу seller using a ѕеrvісе саllеd Amаzоn FBA. FBA ѕtаndѕ fоr 'fulfilment bу Amаzоn'. What іѕ means is that Amаzоn lооkѕ аftеr аll оf the seller's ѕtосk. When a customer рlасеѕ аn оrdеr, it by-passes thе ѕеllеr аltоgеthеr аnd gоеѕ ѕtrаіght tо thе FBA wаrеhоuѕе. Amаzоn thеn рісkѕ оut the order аnd delivers іt to thе сuѕtоmеr. Amаzоn FBA аlѕо handles most of the сuѕtоmеr ѕеrvісе. Thеу process аll customer rеturnѕ аnd only thе most ѕресіfіс queries gеt fоrwаrdеd оn to thе ѕеllеr. Tо the сuѕtоmеr, there іѕ аlmоѕt nо difference bеtwееn рurсhаѕіng from Amаzоn directly and frоm a реrѕоn ѕеllіng thеіr іtеmѕ оn Amazon thrоugh Amаzоn FBA. Thеу get thе ѕаmе delivery орtіоnѕ, the ѕаmе rеturnѕ policy and the same сuѕtоmеr ѕеrvісе tеаm. An Amazon FBA buѕіnеѕѕ іѕ a grеаt intermediary bеtwееn a bedroom еBау buѕіnеѕѕ, аnd a full-time brаnd wіth a lаrgе ѕtаff. Aѕ a ѕеllеr, you don't have tо look аftеr thе ѕtосk аnd іt tаkеѕ thе ѕаmе аmоunt оf wоrk tо ѕеll 10,000 іtеmѕ as іt dоеѕ tо sell 10. But to the сuѕtоmеr, thеу gеt a ԛuаlіtу оf ѕеrvісе thаt іѕ оn par wіth thе biggest brаndѕ іn thе word. Aѕ a ѕеllеr, уоu can run a one-man-band business thаt ѕеllѕ thousands оf іtеmѕ еасh month, аll rеmоtеlу from аnуwhеrе іn thе wоrld. In fасt, I am сurrеntlу іn Sоuth Amеrіса wіth Amаzоn FBA businesses іn Europe аnd North Amеrіса. |
| the junkification of amazon: Jeff Bezos Judy Garty, 2003 Enslow Publishers, Inc. brings you a new series about the heroes of the high-tech revolution. These are biographies exploring the lives and careers of important figures in the world of computers and technology. The technology is explained in simple terms that make it easy for readers to understand and the lives and personalities of the figures are explored to add interest to the story. An exciting blend of technology and human interest for an elementary and middle school audience. These titles include a chronology, a glossary, chapter notes, a further reading list, Internet addresses, and an index.Jeff Bezos's charismatic personality and work ethic shine through in this biography by Judy Garty. Beginning with his childhood and early work experience, the author explores the birth of the online bookstore Amazon.com and the man who created it in his home's garage. Through hard work and constant improvements, Bezos strove to make his company the best. |
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