The Amazon Way on IoT, John Rossman
The Amazon Way on IoT, John Rossman
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The Amazon Way on IoT
10 Principles for Every Leader from the World's Leading Internet of Things Strategies

Author: John Rossman

Narrator: Christopher Lane

Unabridged: 5 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/07/2017

Synopsis

The Amazon Way on IoT is for the leader who wants to understand how the internet of things is transforming business and society. Readers will discover business cases, key concepts, technologies and tools to help develop, explain and execute their own IoT approach through understanding Amazon’s and other leading companies sophisticated IoT technologies and strategies.Connected devices, wearables, cloud computing, sensors, machine learning and algorithms are all capabilities and technologies dramatically changing business, government and organizational landscapes. These are the core components enabling the internet of things, which Harvard professor Michael Porter writes is the backbone for a third wave of technology-led innovation and digital disruption. This book gives you the easy recipes to identify the opportunities in your business.

About John Rossman

John Rossman develops and implements innovative business models, technology strategies, and operations improvement for Fortune 500 companies in industry sectors ranging from high tech, to philanthropy to retail. He currently works as a managing director for Alvarez & Marsal, a global, professional services firm that delivers performance improvement, turnaround management, and business advisory services to organizations seeking to transform operations, catapult growth, and accelerate results through decisive action.

Prior to A&M, John served as director of enterprise services at Amazon.com, where he developed the Merchants @ program, a B2B network that enables millions of sellers to offer products through Amazon, which now is over 40 percent of all orders. He also ran the relationships with enterprise clients like Target.com, Toys “R” Us, Sears.ca, Marks and Spencer, and the NBA.

John lives in Seattle, Washington with his wife and two sons. He holds a BS in industrial engineering from Oregon State University.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Chris on January 12, 2019

Somewhat disappointing, but with some interesting insights. First, the book is purely at the strategy level of IoT. Absolutely nothing about the cost-benefit of the devices, the motivations for the design of their morphology, which communication spectrum to use etc. Although that's probably unrealis......more

Goodreads review by Kelly on November 12, 2017

I think Rossman does a great job describing Amazon's culture but does a poor job on providing a playbook on IoT. Likening Kindle to an IoT solution is a bit disingenuous; Alexa - absolutely! The author points to reading his earlier book to understand Amazon's culture. I have a good enough understand......more

Goodreads review by Brian on February 28, 2018

How to think about digital disruption This is a very good introduction to how to think about digital disruption (not just IOT) by focusing on the business problems to be solved and how to accelerate your business using IOT. Lots of insights here, but no silver bullets...it requires discipline and lo......more

Goodreads review by Joe on March 27, 2018

I listened to the audio book. I loved the idea of developing formulas for business processes. Customer obsession and avoiding short term gains for long term ones, was especially good. The concept of failing forward as a culture. All good stuff. The only reason I take a point away is cause author was......more

Goodreads review by Alvaro on October 28, 2020

The title is a bit misleading. Not a deep discussion of Amazon's IoT projects and philosophy, but a bunch (10) of general principles, more related to general digital transformation that IoT in particular, in which the author fits some Amazon-related examples in. To me, it felt like two stars. I woul......more

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