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Flipkart's App only Strategy: A Game Changer?
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By the summer of 2015, Flipkart Online Services Pvt. Ltd. of Bangalore, India, had become a significant player in the Indian e-commerce industry. The company started its online operations with an inventory model, focusing on books, but expanded to a marketplace model with music, movies and mobile phones. Its fashion retail portal Myntra, acquired in 2014, closed its website operations on May 1, 2015, and moved to an app-only platform to take advantage of the increasing use of smartphones by the Indian population for Internet searches and purchases. Although it experienced some initial losses, the parent company announced in July that it would also be moving to an app-only platform in September, becoming the first e-commerce company in the world to adopt this strategy on such a scale. Will this innovative move lead to further success and become a game changer for the industry or is it a step taken too soon into a future trend?
學習目標
The case may be used in courses on e-business, operations, strategy, information systems and digital marketing. It has the following key teaching objectives:<ul><li>To discuss the innovative e-business app-only strategy that Flipkart is expected to adopt in September 2015.</li><li>To discuss the viability and sustainability of the app-only strategy.</li><li>To discuss the increasing use of mobile versus desktop Internet usage in India.</li></ul>