4.2 – “One Oasis” Cases

 “You must have a vision and not just a vision but you must have a plan that would make you fulfil that vision.” – Aliko Dangote We will use some companies to illustrate the One Oasis strategy. Amazon: Amazon is an ecommerce company with a massive user base. It supports billions of transactions in a year and needs computing resources to keep its portal running. Amazon could have called IBM for cloud computing infrastructure for its ecommerce operation. Rather, Amazon decided to build one in-house. The ecommerce is an oasis and the cloud is like the animal (in a desert) that…