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Briefly answer the seven questions on page 32 and upload the answers to Blackboard Assignments. Note this case study is from the 7th edition and can be found in the Amazon Case Study - Scanned Pages.
QUESTIONS
1. In what ways does Amazon, as a company, evidence the willingness and ability to collaborate?
2. In what ways does Amazon, as a company, evidence the willingness and ability to experiment? Use Amazon Coins as an example: https://developer.amazon.com/post/ Tx2EZGRG23VNQOK/Introducing-Amazon-Coins-A-New-Virtual-Currency-for-Kindle-Fire.html.
3. In what ways do you think the employees at Amazon must be able to perform systems and abstract thinking?
4. Describe, at a high level, the principal roles played by each of the five components of an information system that supports order fulfillment.
5. Choose any five of the innovations in Figure 1-8 and explain how you think Moore's Law facilitated each innovation.
6. Suppose you work for Amazon or a company that takes innovation as seriously as Amazon does. What do you suppose is the likely reaction to an employee who says to his or her boss, "But, I don't know how to do that!"?
7. Using your own words and your own experience, what skills and abilities do you think you need to have to thrive at an organization like Amazon?
Attachment:- amazoncasestudy.compressed.pdf
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