IT strategies from Amazon?
I have to list some of Amazon's IT strategies for university, but I'm having a bit of trouble wording it.
I can't seem to find anything good online that would transfer well to Amazon, but I don't want to disappoint my project group… :/
Does anyone have a good link or can help me?
Bezos' "API First" strategy is legendary. It initiated a radical architectural shift around 2002: from monoliths and technology islands to services with interfaces. This led directly to Amazon Web Services (AWS); starting in 2006, Amazon began selling cloud services. The rest is history.
It's important to remember that this was around the same time that Carr was relativizing the importance of IT in general with "Does IT matter?" A typical IT strategy, even today, looks like this: "IT is a cost factor. Therefore, I'll simply reduce costs as much as possible – about one or two percent of revenue, and it can't cost more than that." If Amazon had thought that way, they wouldn't be what they are today.