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

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    Great guidebook for adopting IoT across a variety of business models
  

*by D***D on Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2017*

If you’re a business owner or involved with setting your business strategic direction, you owe it to yourself to read John Rossman’s new book, “The Amazon Way on IoT: 10 Principles for Every Leader from the World's Leading Internet of Things Strategies.” It’s nearly impossible to escape the news around Internet of Things (IoT) and the transformative impact it’s making on our society. Rossman’s book provides a set of important principals that you can use to tailor your products and services around this growing momentum.Rossman provides an overview of the IoT Technology Chain, from devices and sensors that collect raw data around human behavior to how companies analyze that data, learn from it, and provide valuable insights into predicting their customers’ future actions. That smartphone in your pocket is perhaps the best example of a general-purpose IoT device that has become an indispensable part of our lives and a tremendous opportunity for new products and services. A well-crafted smartphone app can replicate the function of a dedicated IoT device, such as the Amazon Echo, smart TVs or heart rate monitors. The book helps business owners understand the trade-offs on how to leverage IoT apps, dedicated devices and services into their own businesses.The book also covers topics beyond IoT devices, introducing a new breed of business models made possible by IoT. This is perhaps the most valuable takeaway from the book for owners of more traditional businesses. Several chapters demonstrate how businesses can start small and scale up using IoT devices, apps and cloud-based services. Other chapters discuss creating new revenue streams by building platforms and data access points for other companies to utilize. A highly recommended read.

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    Rehashes good ideas and principles from the first book with IoT dressing for some sizzle
  

*by T***R on Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2017*

The author is an accomplished Amazon business executive. He has grown the Amazon marketplace into a juggernaut which now accounts for more than 50% of all goods sold on Amazon. So he knows a thing or two about scaling a business, about experimenting and succeeding with a platform company. And he wrote a 2014 book on the Amazon leadership principles. As back then, he gets several things right: About focusing on general principles (rather than specific methods), about the benefit of experimenting and iterating to a successful formula, about the need to have a big vision guiding those experiments, about the difference of thinking big vs. betting big etc.The book reviews a lot of Amazon's successes and a few of its failures. It provides a catalogue of questions to ask when thinking about how to innovate or create a new business, up and down the value chain. I would say it's 80% about Amazon, and only 20% specific to IoT.However, the author also seems to pull everything under the IoT umbrella, thereby undermining the value of the book in my opinion. For example, the thoughts on business model innovation are not specific to IoT, but reflect a more general shift in business strategy over the last decade. Things like minimum viable product have been elaborated on in Eric Ries's 2011 book "Lean Startup". In 2009 Eric said: “Startups exist not just to make stuff, make money, or even serve customers. They exist to learn how to build a sustainable business.” This certainly also applies to IoT, fair enough, but it's not something unique to your company's IoT strategy.Similarly, thoughts on agile execution are also not new or particularly IoT specific. We know that to innovate a business needs to find a balance between trying new things, executing well to scale (persevere), and on the flip side failing fast, learning from a failed experiment and trying something else (pivot). No business or leader can make all the right calls, as is evident from the high profile failures of even the best companies. In this context, to describe the Amazon Fire phone and its $170M inventory write-off as an experiment is a bit of a stretch. It was a costly mistake that only few companies could recover from. And to label the Fire phone as an IoT device is a bit of a stretch - looking through the IoT glasses all of a sudden every product or service looks like it's somehow enabling an IoT strategy…Likewise, there is this hindsight bias about customer obsession. Steve Jobs was famous for insisting on insanely great products. Peter Thiel in his 2014 book "Zero to One" states that an innovation needs to be an order of magnitude improvement over existing competitors to have a chance of disrupting the market. Again, there were some interesting new features in the Fire phone such as its dynamic perspective 3-D effect. In a 2015 Fast Company article "The Real Story behind Jeff Bezos's Fire Phone Debacle" one could read that team members couldn't think of useful scenarios for this 3-D effect and the answer to the question why it was built at huge costs was simply "because Jeff wants it". In other words: Jeff lost sight of customers. But didn't Steve Jobs famously state that you can't ask customers what they want, instead you have to invent new experiences for them. So if a billionaire CEO bets big money on a particular development which customers ultimately reject, it was a learning experiment. When the market embrace the new device or service then we are told it's because the CEO obsessed about customers…There are few examples of ideas for IoT / cloud enabled new business models in this book, such as the experiment in Germany to deliver packages to cars (instead of homes) and deposit them in the trunk which would open with a one-time code. Or the HVAC company with sensors in the air conditioning units to provide alerts when the filter was last changed. Some good nuggets there, but not what I expected.In summary: This book is rehashing ideas and principles from the first book with IoT dressing for some sizzle. But it offers few IoT specific examples or guidelines.

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    VERY GOOD BUT A LITTLE TECHNICAL
  

*by J***N on Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2020*

One would think a book on IOT would be technical. Or maybe a book on programing would be technical. Or a book on Amazon is technical. While all these are true, project management is the most difficult. The business of project management is one of the most valuable strengths of Amazon. They do things different than any other company I know. Their myriad of businesses include many product markets requiring a host of different skills all put together a business sense that is impressive.They remind me of another conglomerate, Berkshire.  A company created from other successful companies with a genius for value.At Amazon,the genius is the business of the 21st century.

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