Amazon is an online company which thrives on its ability to collaborate and work well with other technological innovations that can enhance its performance and popularity. The creation of cloud services after Amazon began to lease some of its capacity is proof of the company’s collaborative ability. After the holiday season when Amazon was left with less infrastructure capacity, the company would give some of its capacity to others. On flexible sharing terms of internet space, Amazon helped out other companies which were just beginning to thrive in the cyber world and thereby it revealed that the company was ready to cooperate with others in time of need.
In 1999 Amazon experimented by auctioning within their site. Online auctions add majorly to the online sales hence Amazon tested these. However, they failed against eBay and could not advance their website against them. Yet it revealed the company’s readiness to embrace experimentation. Amazon is not only about cooperating with others, but it is a company which is also willing-as-ever to innovate and experiment with new ideas and operatives. Another one of such innovations is the use of Amazon coins (Amazon). These coins are an invention solely usable on Amazon. They have been developed as digital currency for use online. 100 coins are equal to one dollar on Amazon. These coins are usable for purchasing Android applications and the in-game items for a cheaper price. The more coins a customer has, the greater will be their discount. Amazon coins can be used on the Amazon Appstore, which is just like the Google Playstore or the AppStore for Apple. There are various other features of the Amazon coins which can help customers save up to 25% when they purchase them, and they are also earning more coins when they purchase the in-app items of the popular games (Amazon). This reveals that the company is never short of experimentation and trying new things because it wants to broaden its market and provide ease to the customer.
The employees at Amazon must be able to perform systems and abstract thinking by making use of the online web services which are meant to keep the systems effective and operational. By gaining access to the Amazon information systems, Amazon employees can gather the exact information they require and be able to work effectively from thereon. Abstract reasoning skills and know-how means that employees must be able to interpret models and make sense of what must be done to help the components of the system work in harmony. Amazon employees are able to utilize the shipping and arrangements provided by the company in order to enhance the costs and provide satisfactory results. Their skills will be used when there is a requirement of assembly or the need to create the assembly costs at Amazon.
In a computer system, there are several roles played by each of its components which help to fulfill its duties and make it function in a proper network. First, it is the hardware of the computer, which links dozens of computer systems together. This is possible through data communication between the respective links. The software is also made up of many different programs which are well-coordinated and function in a network in the computer system which also assist in the process of picking up orders, packing them and then shipping them for the deliveries from warehouses. Then, the system has the data of its clients, the orders and customer profiles which also keep track or previous orders and the inventory and all other information related to the shipping process. There are many in-between procedures which have to be followed by the clients, the Amazon workers, and the shipping procedures involved. The people operating the systems are equally important as they are working the computers and keeping track of the data as well as checking the linked computer networks.
Moore’s Law states that the amount of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits doubled since the year of their invention (Moore’sLaw.org). Accordingly, the transistors then grow at a directly proportional rate. This has been an ongoing trend. Because of this law, the cost related to data communication as well as storage is basically nil. Moore’s Law is applicable to the entire history of Amazon’s work. Some of its applications are evidently possible on the first online bookstore, launching Amazon.com, Kindle 2 and Kindle DX and on Kindle Fire. Moore’s law was helpful in multiplying the success coming towards Amazon. Amazon had tried to work like eBay but could not succeed. Moore’s law helps to explain this as eBay was already helping to put stuff out at low prices that could not be matched. The aforementioned successes were managed by lower costs and progressive marketing. Amazon has hence kept up with the times by innovation and enhanced marketing since 1994.
If at a company such as Amazon, an employee states that he does not know how to do something, his employer would simply ask him to try and experiment because that is the only way to come up with an innovative approach. The whole point of Amazon itself turning out into a success is its ability to think out of the box and try something extraordinary. There are multiple areas to work on, and an employee could enhance their skills on the IT side and help branch out and eventually come up with a novel idea.
In order to work at Amazon, a person must be creative, ready to have a broad-minded approach and to work cooperatively and be communicative with others. Being a worker for Amazon means a person needs to have the skills for attracting customers through an innovative marketing approach and to be ready to face failure if an idea does not have a good response. These failures and successes occurring simultaneously, have helped Amazon to thrive as an organization.
Work Cited
Amazon. “Amazon coins.” Amazon: All. Amazon, 1996. Web. 5 Sept. 2016.
Moore’sLaw.org. Moore’s law. n.d. Web. 5 Sept. 2016.
