Session Assignment
For this assignment, continue your investigation of the company Amazon.
• Discuss the degree to which the business model depends upon the operations function relative to the other five functions.Remember that businesses are FAMOUS. Specifically every business includes six primary functional areas: Finance - Accounting - Marketing - Operations - Utility - Systems .
• Discuss the criticality of operations to Amazon's success.
• What makes Amazon different from Walmart since both sell retail goods to the general public?
o Are the differences related to operations strategy?
o What is the difference in firm performance?
R.O.A., R.O.I., gross margin
Revenue growth
Stock price growth past and forecast
Draft a single page typed response (using 12 point times new roman font at 1 inch borders).
Utility is that which creates the source of revenue e.g. a product or service
Systems--Information systems