Case Study : The Amazon of Innovation
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 companJ4 evidence the willingness and ability to experiment?
3. In what ways do you think the employees at Amazon must be ubl" 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 1-7 and explain how you think Moore's Law facilitated that innovation.
6. Suppose you work for Amazon or a company that takes innovation as seriously as Amazon does' \'Mhat do you suppose is the likely reaction to an employee wht says fo his or her boss, "But, I dont knowhow to do that!"?
7. Using your own words and your own experience' naistils and abilities do you think you need to have to thrive at an organization like Amazon?