Explores Walmart's business strategy, and using Internet of Things to solve an important problem.

1. Innovating
Walmart
Roopali Aneja, Aravind Gopalakrishnan, Briana Lemon, Sohan Rane, Praveen Sundar

2. Wal-Mart in Numbers
● 11,000 stores
● 27 countries
● $15 billion annual revenue
● 2 million employees
● Market Share: 63%
● Closest Competitor: Costco (17%)

3. Business Strategy
● Maintain Cost Leadership
● Product Differentiation
● Control of IS / Tech Innovation
● Enterprise-wide Customer Satisfaction

4. IS Strategy Triangle

5. Porter’s Five Forces

6. Industry Analysis
D’Aveni’s Hypercompetition (7’S)
1. Superior Stakeholder Satisfaction
2. Strategic Soothsaying
3. Positioning for Speed
4. Positioning for Surprise
5. Shifting the Rules of Competition
6. Signaling Strategic Intent
7. Simultaneous and Sequential Strategic Thrusts

7. Firm Analysis
Dynamic Capabilities:
● Business model - Reduce costs of supply chains
● Successful inventory & vendor management
● Supply Chain Management
● Customer Relationship Management
● Local market outlets (US) with outside retailer
● Use of NodeJS for mobile applications

8. Alignment With Business Strategy
● Applications - Cost Leadership
● Infrastructure - Enterprise-Wide
Customer Satisfaction
● IS Organization - Cost Leadership
● Outsourcing - Tech Innovation
● Governance Style - Product
Differentiation

9. Internet of Things
● Sensors
● Connectivity
● People
● Processes

10. Internet of Things - Example
Business Strategy : Enterprise-wide customer satisfaction

11. Gartner’s Hype Chart

12. IoT Maturity - 5~10 years
Documents: Devices:
Source: Visual Capitalist

13. A Value-Added Solution
Empty Shelves
Grumpy Customers
Understaffed Stores
$3 Billion Opportunity

14. To Adopt or Not Adopt?
1984: Barcode & Satellites
2003: RFID
2015: IoT?

15. QUESTIONS?