num_pages: 336
description: In Arriving Today Christopher Mims goes deep far and wide to uncover how a single product from creation to delivery weaves its way from a factory on the other side of the world to our doorstep. He analyzes the evolving technologies and management strategies necessary to keep the product moving to fulfill consumers demand for arriving today gratification. Mims reveals a world where the only thing moving faster than goods in an Amazon warehouse is the rate at which an entire industry is being gutted and rebuilt by innovation and mass shifts in human labor practices. He goes behind the scenes to uncover the paradoxes in this shiftinto the worlds busiest port the cabin of an 18-wheeler and Amazons automated warehousesto explore how the promise of arriving today is fulfilled through a balletic dance between humans and machines. The scope of such large-scale innovation and expended energy is equal parts inspiring enlightening and horrifying. As he offers a glimpse of our future Mims asks us to consider the systems vulnerability and its resilience and who shoulders the burden as we hurtle toward a fully automated systemand what it will mean when we are there.
language: English
title: Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door-Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy
publisher: Harper Business