A company self-examination. What are we known for? Who do we want to become

In this assignment, you will create a Situation Analysis for one (1)
of the following companies / brands: Jeep Cherokee, Amazon.com, or
Google.
Each of these three (3) companies (Jeep Cherokee, Amazon.com, and
Google) has been through numerous changes in recent years. For this
assignment, select only one (1) company / brand. Use the information
listed, as well as your own knowledge and research, to complete the
provided situation analysis template. Additional research should include
the use of the company’s Website, the course textbook, and other online
sources. Pick One Company:

Jeep Cherokee

History

“The formal creation of Jeep Cherokee
Automobiles and its debut on the New York Stock Exchange is a historic
moment. Today, building on the foundations and aspirations of Fiat
S.p.A. and Chrysler Group LLC, we are beginning a completely new phase
that will see our Group play a major role in the future of the global
automotive industry.”

– John Elkann, October 13, 2014

“FCA’s listing today on Wall Street is
the culmination of five-and-a-half years of work to achieve an
extraordinary union. It marks the hard-won arrival at a destination.
Yet, like so many milestones, it represents not just an ending, but also
a new beginning – the beginning of our journey as one global automaker,
one FCA.”

– Sergio Marchionne, October 13, 2014

With the formal creation of Jeep Cherokee
Automobiles (FCA) and its listing on the New York and Milan stock
exchanges, a new group is born.

FCA carries on the tradition of two historic automakers: Fiat founded in 1899 and Chrysler founded in 1925

Amazon

History

Amazon.com, (NASDAQ: AMZN) is an American
e-commerce company based in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1994 by Jeff
Bezos, and launched in 1995, Amazon.com began as an online bookstore
before diversifying its product lines by adding VHSs, DVDs, music CDs,
MP3s, computer software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture,
food, toys, and more. Amazon has since established separate websites in
Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, France, China, and Japan.

Since starting out in his garage in Bellevue,
Washington, Jeff Bezos has gone on to form one of the greatest
ecommerce sites the internet has everseen.

Google

History

Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin met at
Stanford University in 1995. By 1996, they had built a search engine
(initially called BackRub) that used links to determine the importance
of individual Webpages.

Larry and Sergey named the search engine they
built “Google,” a play on the word “googol,” the mathematical term for a
1 followed by 100 zeros. Google Inc. was born in 1998, when Sun
co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim wrote a check for $100,000 to that
entity-which until then didn’t exist.

In 2000, we introduced AdWords, a
self-service program for creating online ad campaigns. Today our
advertising solutions, which include display, mobile and video ads as
well as the simple text ads we introduced more than a decade ago, help
thousands of businesses grow and become successful.

On April Fools’ Day in 2004, we launched
Gmail. Our approach to email included features like speedy search, huge
amounts of storage and threaded messages.
Our Initial Public Offering of 19,605,052 shares of Class A common stock
took place on Wall Street on August 18, 2004.

We acquired digital mapping company Keyhole
in 2004, and launched Google Maps and Google Earth in 2005. Today Maps
also features live traffic, transit directions and street-level imagery,
and Earth lets you explore the ocean and the moon.

In 2006, we acquired online video sharing
site YouTube. Today 60 hours of video are uploaded to the site every
minute. Cat videos, citizen journalism, political candidacy and double
rainbows have never been the same.

Amidst rumors of a “Gphone,” we announced Android-an open platform for mobile devices-and the Open Handset Alliance, in 2007.