Amazon business plan

Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: A, The University of Liverpool, language: English, abstract: Due to the dynamics of customers needs, competition among different organization is ever growing. Consequently, organizations are coming up with strategies of sharpening their competitive advantage. Many of these strategies are either geared towards minimizing the cost of production, maximizing the net profit, minimizing the customers waiting time or even improving the quality of products produced. Product differentiation and integration are some of the ways many organizations have been using to meet their organizational goals. Amazon, a multinational corporation dealing with e-commerce is one of the organizations facing hard times due to global competition. As a result, it wants to venture into making dehumidifiers so as to boost its cash-flows in the positive direction. This assignment is all about a business plan developed to determine the viability of venturing into making dehumidifiers. A dehumidifier is a device that reduces the amount of humidity in the air. By doing so, it reduces the chances of survival of moths, cockroaches, termites and fleas. Thus, it helps a lot in preventing the diseases that can be transmitted by these pests. Previous studies have shown that by use of a dehumidifier, the chances of transmission of diseases are reduced by 75%. Another advantage of a dehumidifier is that it increases conformability by reducing sweating.