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• Competitors
• Video on demand – Netflix
• Cloud storage – IBM
• App store – Google, Apple
• Virtual Assistant – Google, Apple
• Online Music – apple, google, saavn
• Retail business – Walmart , Best buy
• Collaborators
• Upstream suppliers – amazon studios
• Downstream suppliers – Books, video, ebook , electronics (eg. Cloudtail)
• Context
• Customers are using brick and mortar retailers as showroom of Amazon.
• Amazon continued to lead in most of the business where product is standard
• we need to analyse if traditional retailers can apply new strategy to survive
• Decision Problem
• Traditional retailers are losing business to Amazon. Need to identify long term and short term strategies to counter Amazon.
• Alternatives
• More frequent discount offers to keep the inflow of the customer to showrooms
• Negotiate with OEM/ wholesaler and get the same pricing policy implemented
• Identify target customers and come up with product/ offers for them (For eg: Senior citizen, Kids )
• Provide additional services and value addition in store (For eg: Add on benefits – same day installation)
• Improve mobile app/ website presence, make products online
• Exclusivity in certain product categories
• Introduce loyalty program, reward customer for repeat purchases.