by John Rossman | Oct 28, 2015 | Blog
On-AMZN: We launched the Amazon apparel category in October, 2002. This was the first launch of the “Merchants@” platform at Amazon and the category opened with purely third party sellers such as Gap, Nordstrom and Macy’s. Since then, Amazon has...
by John Rossman | Dec 6, 2016 | Blog
TechTarget IoT Agenda ran a book excerpt from The Amazon Way on IoT In this excerpt from chapter seven of The Amazon Way on IoT, author John Rossman describes the seventh principle of IoT: the outcome-based business model. Read the chapter HERE at...
by John Rossman | Oct 25, 2015 | Blog
On-AMZN: The Christian Science Monitor report that 83% of customers polled plan to spend Black Friday on Amazon.com, followed by Walmart.com at . In-store retail customer polling reviel that the leader is Walmart at 62% followed by Target at 61% (apparently the poll...
by John Rossman | Apr 30, 2015 | Blog
Amazon is the master of exploring, expanding and disrupting in both retail capabilities and providing business services, typically technology services via AWS, to companies. When they can connect the two together, there are reinforcing synergies between the...
by John Rossman | Jun 13, 2015 | Blog
On-AMZN: No doubt Amazon gets it share of press. It’s been a few weeks since I’ve commented as I haven’t seen anything really surprising or potentially competitively gamechanging for Amazon. This story on WSJ by Greg Bensinger —...
