Amazon's excellent technology is the result of IT serving its business requirements, not the cause of it.
Although they started out selling books, they had a grander vision. Sometimes I wonder if AWS was really planned or if it's just a byproduct of IT doing its job so well. This wouldn't be the first time a non-tech firm has become a tech firm once it realized that its most valuable asset was the techology it developed to serve its original needs.
I guess there's sort of a chicken and egg thing here, so your point isn't really falsifiable. But again, the way Amazon is structured is as a software company. They build a product, and then hand that off to the operations side to implement. The big movers and decision makers in the company are on the product development side, and not on the implementation side.
That structure is the reverse of the typical corporate IT structure, where the people developing the product are routinely taking orders from the people who need to use those products.
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Amazon's excellent technology is the result of IT serving its business requirements, not the cause of it.
Although they started out selling books, they had a grander vision. Sometimes I wonder if AWS was really planned or if it's just a byproduct of IT doing its job so well. This wouldn't be the first time a non-tech firm has become a tech firm once it realized that its most valuable asset was the techology it developed to serve its original needs.
I guess there's sort of a chicken and egg thing here, so your point isn't really falsifiable. But again, the way Amazon is structured is as a software company. They build a product, and then hand that off to the operations side to implement. The big movers and decision makers in the company are on the product development side, and not on the implementation side.
That structure is the reverse of the typical corporate IT structure, where the people developing the product are routinely taking orders from the people who need to use those products.
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Interesting. I've never read so many negative things about Amazon in one place before.