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Amazon Go Case Study
Amazon Go Case Study
Amazon Go Case Study
Amazon History
Amazon Development
Competitive Advantage
Amazon Go
Problem
Conclusion
1 HISTORY
1994-1997 1998-2004 2005-2010 2011-2017
Key Achievements
• Websites in 14 countries Amazon Go – first brick & mortar
• Shipping services in 75 convenience store
countries
• 268,900 employees in 2016 - Mobile e-commerce, machine
• Research & Development learning & computer vision
investment
1 COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
• Addressed every customer need that they find • Focus their services on where they are best at
• Invest on infrastructure to address customer • Not all customer needs can be address by new
needs infrastructure but rather by improving an
existing one
• Making their service available worldwide
• Support their suppliers and not create a
• Creating the same product as the supplier rebranded product
CHALLENGES RECOMMENDATION
• Amazon Go and Amazon Elements are • Make Amazon Go & Elements to all
both offline and online but available Amazon members
only to Prime members
• Remain being customer-focused and
• Replicate online competitive advantage listen to what they want then innovate
to offline markets
• Leverage on customer databases to
• Possible resistance from employees and identify customer needs
unions due to potential job cuts
Making a decision is not a risk, what’s dangerous is
not to evolve.
- Jeff Bezos