The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 2, 2021

We worked in different industries before joining Netflix, including tech, entertainment, retail, science policy, and research. New initiatives and strategy bets are captured in memos for anyone in the company to read and engage in discourse. In my last role, I worked at a research think tank in the D.C.

Analytics 207

Analytics Innovation C++ Engineering 207

All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

For Amazon retail, some of those dimensions are low pricing, large catalog, fast shipping, and convenience. For example, when our retail customers contributed to create larger economies of scale for Amazon.com, we used the savings to lower pricing such that our customers could also benefit.

AWS 106

AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 106

Edge Perspectives

JANUARY 21, 2019

Let me start by clarifying that the transformation I’m focused on isn’t the transformation involved in moving from one business to another (let’s say, moving from being a retailer to becoming a clothing manufacturer). Strategy: Shift from static to dynamic. Why go through the traumatic effort to transform?

Innovation 104

Innovation Scalability Efficiency Mobile 104

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

Retail is one of the most important business domains for data science and data mining applications because of its prolific data and numerous optimization problems such as optimal prices, discounts, recommendations, and stock levels that can be solved using data analysis methods. We describe the problems one by one in separate sections.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2017

Digitalization offers almost endless possibilities to communicate faster, work more efficiently, and be more creative – in real-time. " In the end, only a carefully planned and executed HR strategy will allow a company to achieve the digital transformation and develop it in such a way that it fulfills the company's long-term goals.

Social Media 85

Social Media Retail Automotive Innovation 85

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

Many large companies have tens of thousands of employees and need to perform fast, efficient contact tracing. Immediately notifying and isolating all affected employees helps to limit the size of an outbreak, while analyzing the sources and evolution of incidents assists managers in the moment and as they develop new policies and strategies.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

Many large companies have tens of thousands of employees and need to perform fast, efficient contact tracing. Immediately notifying and isolating all affected employees helps to limit the size of an outbreak, while analyzing the sources and evolution of incidents assists managers in the moment and as they develop new policies and strategies.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

Many large companies have tens of thousands of employees and need to perform fast, efficient contact tracing. Immediately notifying and isolating all affected employees helps to limit the size of an outbreak, while analyzing the sources and evolution of incidents assists managers in the moment and as they develop new policies and strategies.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Expanding customer value while reducing costs Further, the retail financial services landscape is increasingly competitive. Given current economic uncertainties, financial services firms must follow strategies that maximize their chances of growing revenue while reducing costs. Yet resources remain scarce.

FinTech 192

FinTech Innovation Strategy Retail 192

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Some of the names include Amazon’s Luna, TikTok, Tinder, among many online retailers. Cost-Efficient And Effort-Saving Development. Alibaba is one of the e-commerce giants that have “run the gamut” from a regular online retail store to a native application (created for mobile shopping purposes) and then on to a PWA.

Code 74

Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2019

There was a market, but no obvious winning strategy. The only strategy was to hope that your competitors ran out of cash before you did. The Journal makes the point that the would-be disruptors in home meal kits have done more to disrupt one another than they have to established players in retail food, and that's an important point.

FinTech 40

FinTech Strategy Retail Innovation 40

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Having a highly sophisticated way of organizing data visibility between monitoring teams makes a huge difference in efficiency when building charts, analyzing incidents, and reacting to problems because teams aren’t drowning in unnecessary information. What if a custom metric is sent to a host in my management zone?

Metrics 199

Metrics Retail Monitoring Analytics 199

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2016

As far back as the 19th century, industrial firms pursued vertical integration strategies. The thinking was that by owning the supply chain from raw materials to retail outlets, a firm had direct control over its entire cost structure, making it better able to squeeze efficiencies out of it and being less susceptible to supply shocks.

Blockchain 40

Blockchain Retail Social Media Airlines 40

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2020

There is an alternative perspective that is far more optimistic : digital companies drive down costs through hyper-efficiency (speed, automation and machine scale) and price transparency. The argument for this invisible efficiency is that economic models have simply failed to change in ways that reflect this phenomenon.

Energy 52

Energy Government Entertainment Innovation 52

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The data available to our retail business is much more limited. The online business is information-rich; the retail business is information-poor. What will cause those trends to end, and what strategies will the business need to adopt? New strategies are possible because you have information that you’ve never had before.

Games 117

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 117

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

In the 1970s, the predominant business strategy was vertical integration: own the value chain from raw materials to retail outlets. Michael Porter argued in Competitive Strategy that vertical integration enabled cost leadership, which was more likely to win market share than a strategy of differentiation.

Retail 40

Retail Strategy Technology Technology 40

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

Oddly, about 3% of non-adopters cited cost as a primary reason not to move workloads to cloud; cost-efficiency is usually touted as one of cloud’s most attractive features. In other words, comparatively few respondent organizations appear to be pursuing dedicated multi-cloud strategies. Amazon and AWS Ascendant.

Cloud 141

Cloud Serverless AWS Architecture 141