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Automation in Amazon
18:48 - 24:45 (05:57)
Amazon has succeeded in automating people's jobs by utilizing its technology to minimize execution work and build a system to get ideas from people to decision makers, ultimately expanding its business to various industries.
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Amazon has transitioned its vendor managers to product and program manager jobs focused on inventing and shepherding new ideas, with a machine learning head revealing that vendor managers used to handle 1,000 products.
18:48 - 21:11 (02:23)
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Amazon has transitioned its vendor managers to product and program manager jobs focused on inventing and shepherding new ideas, with a machine learning head revealing that vendor managers used to handle 1,000 products. A team from Amazon's retail division is working on tackling the most frustrating aspect of in-store shopping using technology.
ChapterAutomation in Amazon
Episode#174 - Alex Kantrowitz - Why Are The Biggest Tech Companies So Dominant?
PodcastModern Wisdom
Amazon's success can be attributed to their ability to minimize execution work and build a system to efficiently gather ideas from people to decision makers across different departments.
21:11 - 24:45 (03:34)
Summary
Amazon's success can be attributed to their ability to minimize execution work and build a system to efficiently gather ideas from people to decision makers across different departments.