Vrio Analysis Nokia, Amazon Shai Zamir, Dan Saguy

Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational corporation. Nokia focuses on fixed and wireless telecommunications products, with employees in 120 countries, selling products in more than 150 countries around the globe.

Amazon.com, Inc. or www.amazon.com has a mission statement to be the most customer-centric or customer-oriented retailer on this planet, where people can browse and buy anything they want to buy online with prices as low as possible on the market. (About Amazon) They are one of the world’s most important online retailers and providers of web service. (Amazon.com Inc.) They offer a large-scale of products such as clothing, merchandises for car and industrial uses, beauty and health products, books, games, electronic devices, grocery, food, jewelry, merchandises for kids and babies, movies, music, toys, sports goods, and etc. (Amazon.com Inc.) They also offer

It established in 1871 and it is very old company. It was one of the biggest company in world in that time and it competition with other companies who is produce cell phone. The main product is cell phone. Nokia Company produce a lot types of mobile phone and different from other. There are phones with big screen and other with small screen. Also, they have phone with keyboard and other without it work by the touch. Also, Nokia Company provide other services which are internet services such as applications, music, digital media and messages. Nokia offers digital mapping and navigation

Amazon.com, INC. opened its online retail website in 1995, and has now become one of the largest online retailers in the world grossing over 88 billion dollars in sales in 2014 (Business Insight, 2014). With ten different online markets across the world including the United States, China, the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, and several other countries. Amazon.com, INC. sells a variety of merchandise from electronics, apparel, books, and an assortment of other general merchandise items. Their variety of merchandise, The convenience of ordering online, and Amazon’s ability to ship millions of packages every year is why they have become such a powerful company (Rosenblum, 2014).

The Amazon.com, which is one of the nation 's biggest book sellers, had first started off as an online bookstore but since then, has diversified into several different product lines ranging from DVD, MP3s, CDs, video games, electronics, apparel, computer software and etcetera. Shoppers enjoy buying goods from Amazon.com because it is hassle-free,

This report is based on Amazon a global online retailer and web service provider. Amazon provides a broad range of products that includes apparels, beauty and health products, auto and industrial items, electronics, grocery, jewellery, kids and baby products, movies, music, sports goods, toys, books, games, tools and others. It also provides services such as home delivery and shipping, website hosting and other web related services. It offers its products via company-owned retail websites. It also produces and sells Kindle devices. Amazon offer programs that allow authors, musicians, filmmakers, app developers and others to publish and sell content. Geographically, Amazon operates in North America and other international locations through its affiliates. Amazon has its headquarters in Seattle, the US. In 1995 Amazon.com launched on the web and in 1997 the company became the first retailer to secure consumers and the number of the consumers is one million. In 1998 it entered into the online music and video, business and in 1999, it increased its business by selling toys, electronic, tools and hardware. In 2001, Amazon reported its first net profit

Amazon’s primary source of income is the high volume sale of a vast variety of products and services sold online. These services are trusted by the largest companies in the world that range from a large scale of goods bought for resale from third-party sellers and merchants.

Nokia Corporation is one of the world’s largest vendor of mobile phones from 1998 to 2012. At Nokia, they are committed to connecting people around the world through technology. From 2014, Nokia reorganized its structure into four category of business groups: Mobile Phones, Multimedia, Enterprise Solutions, and Networks. Nokia operates 15 manufacturing facilities in nine countries and maintains research and development facilities in 12 countries (Reference For Business, n.d.).

(Amazon) headquartered in Seattle, Washington, US, was the world's largest online retailer. It started as an online book store but later diversified its offerings to DVDs, CDs, MP3 downloads, software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and jewelry. It allowed manufacturers and sellers to sell their products through its websites. It further offered its own consumer electronic products like the Amazon Kindle e-book reader and the Kindle Fire tablet computer. It was also a major provider of cloud computing services. By December 2012, the company had separate retail websites for the US, Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Japan, and China with international shipping facility to a few other countries.

Amazon operates using a web-based platform to sell books.  The web-based model targets a global market, has reduced overhead costs and a shorter operating cycle as compared to brick and mortar businesses such as Barnes & Noble and Borders. Amazon’s online model has a superior inventory

Amazon.com, Inc. (Amazon.com), incorporated on May 28, 1996, is an American electronic commerce company with headquarters in Seattle, Washington and is the largest Internet-based retailer in the United States (Ungar, 2014). Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified, selling DVDs, Blu-rays, CDs, video downloads/ streaming, MP3 downloads/streaming, software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys and jewelry (Ungar, 2014). The company also produces consumer electronics—notably, Amazon Kindle e-book readers, Fire tablets, Fire TV and Fire Phone — and is a major provider of cloud computing services (Ungar, 2014).

This research paper project will be about Amazon.com, Inc. Amazon.com is a shopping site online and it can be access anywhere as long as you have internet. It is a well-known internet-based retailer and it’s available worldwide. Amazon Inc is known for its fastness and convenience, which is a better way to shop for things nowadays, because not everyone wants to go through a hassle of looking for things in store, and having to carry shopping bags from place to place. Amazon.com sells everything, from electronic devices, DVDs, digital movies/music, to household furniture, books, school supplies and beauty products. In my opinion, Amazon.com attracts buyers because they sell products with good deals and sometimes come with free shipping which is always a plus. Specially, Amazon.com sells some products that you rarely or never see in retailer stores. The primarily products that they are known for are their signature Kindle, which is similar to a tablet but its common use is for reading e-books. Amazon.com gets their products from retailers like Nordstrom, Target, Michaels, ... and individual sellers that want to sell their stuff, either used or brand new. Some big companies take advantage and sell their goods through Amazon.com so they can sell more products.

Amazon first starting to sell as online bookstore, but soon after amazon changed to sell all kind of stuffs like DVDs, VHS,CD, VIDEOS , MP3, software, videogames, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys and jewellery.

Efficient Distribution: In order to differentiate itself, Amazon.com has created several associations with other companies to offer superior customer service. The most important are with logistics. Based on economies of scale, Amazon.com is able to lower the inventory replenishment time. Amazon.com has created a deep

(i) Firstly, Amazon were introduced back in early July 1994 as an electronic commerce and cloud computing company founded by Mr Jeff Bezos based in Seattle, Washington with a reputation of being known as one of the largest internet-based retailers in the United States. Starting off just as an online book retailer to broadening the company’s products to spread to DVD’s, electronics, furniture and anything you desire. Although having competition with other online retailers such as eBay, yet still managing to stay on top of the hierarchy with the most revenue for an online retailer with a value of $60 billion back in 2013 becoming one of the most popular brands on the internet.