Part 1:

In regards to the organization "Amazon": Describe its industry, products and services, approximate revenue (if known), number of employees, mission, strategy, business goals and objectives, core business processes, capabilities, and competencies.

Trace the organization's history, describing any changes to its structure over time.

Explain the rationale for major structuring and organization design efforts and how they could (or did) enable improved performance. Discuss whether they yielded the performance hoped for. What role did these efforts play in enabling the organization to be a high-performing learning organization?

Part 2

Make recommendations for enhancing the organization's performance through structure, learning, and organization design practices.

Be sure to:

Develop your recommendations in a way that is practical, actionable, and based on sound rationale. Use theories, models, or paradigms that you have learned in this course. Include concepts you have learned about what types of structures, practices, and methods enable organizations to perform better. You may choose to draw upon exercises that you worked on in previous units.

Include some of your best quotes and stories to show how your recommendations can help the organization develop a more sustainable competitive advantage.

Incorporate additional research about theories, models, or paradigms related to organization design to strengthen your arguments.

Written communication: Written communication should be well organized and clear, with correct spelling and grammar and easy to read.

APA format: Resources and citations should be in current APA format. Be sure to include title and reference pages.

Length: 8-10 typed, double-spaced pages, not including the title and reference pages.

Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.