P3 Describe the main physical and technological resources required in the operation of a
selected organization
Amazon is an E-commerce company, founded in the year 1994, In, Bellevue Washington, U.S. The
company is founded and under CEO Jeff Beezos. It is the world’s biggest online store with various, if not
all products. It started simply as a book store in a garage and emerged to become the biggest Internet
retailer. The company has 40 subsidiary companies, including the well known Amazon Web services
(AWS) used by a lot of organizations which provides a cloud platform and API’s.
In this Task I am going to describe the main physical and technological resources used by Amazon aided
by my BTEC level 3 textbook. For any organization to run smoothly and legally they must have some
physical and technological resources.
Physical resources are tactile resources that an organization requires in order to exert their activities.
These are composed of:
Buildings and facilities
Materials and waste
Plant and Machinery
Equipment
Planned maintenance and refurbishment
Emergency provision
Insurance
Security
Technological resources are intangible resources that are managed to protect an organization and their
rights. These are composed of:
Intellectual Property
Accumulated experience and Skill
Software license
Protection via Patent and Copyrights
Buildings and facilities are needed to carry out operations, different buildings can have different
purposes for the job, and a large company such as Amazon has different buildings, for different
purposes. The company first started operating in a garage but gradually has grown to have not
one but three headquarters, its main one being in Seattle, Washington. From my analysis, the
attractiveness of their HQs is taken very seriously as their Seattle HQ is modern and very
appealing, this may be to attract potential
employees into wanting to work in a building that is
spacious and gives a link to the outside world. The
building is in the shape of a sphere and made of
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