Keeping amazoncom and Boeing in mind answer the following qu

Keeping amazon.com and Boeing in mind, answer the following questions: (a) Are these companies leveraging the public infrastructure of the Internet to maximum advantage? How? (b) Are these companies dependent on proprietary technologies? (c) Do the operations of these companies run in real-time? (d) Have these companies explored new service delivery models? Which ones?

Solution

(a) Amazon is indeed leveraging the public infrastructure of the Internet to maximum advantage. It is trying to reach each and everyone in the developing nations like India via their Mobile Apps. [The scenario in developing nations is a bit different. Internet penetration at the mobile level exceeded the interner penetration at the computers level.]

Boeing being a aeroplane manufacturing company, it has no necessity to completely leverage the public infrastructure of the internet.

(b) Amazon does have their own proprietary technologies. AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a classic example of this. AWS was built to address the problem of heavy traffic on sales days. In the remaining days, they are selling it as a service to smaller companies.

In the similar way, Boeing would be having some proprietary technologies related to Aviation Industry.

(c) Amazon\'s operations do run in real-time. Examples are the order confirmation, order cancellation, auto update via messages and email etc.

Boeing must be doing some tests in the real-time.

(d) Amazon has explored \"Amazon Prime\" which promises to deliver within a day. This is generally done by shipping the goods through flights. Amazon have their own flights by the name \"Amazon Prime Air\" for this purpose.

Boeing being a Aeroplane manufacturing company, not sure if they have new delivery models.