CENTER on GLOBALIZATION‚ GOVERNANCE & COMPETITIVENESS The Apparel Global Value Chain ECONOMIC UPGRADING AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT Karina Fernandez-Stark Stacey Frederick Gary Gereffi Contributing CGGC Researchers: Penny Bamber and Ghada Ahmed NOVEMBER 2011 The Apparel Global Value Chain: Economic Upgrading and Workforce Development “Skills for Upgrading: Workforce Development and Global Value Chains in Developing Countries” This research project examines workforce development
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Netflix‚ Inc.‚ (NASDAQ: NFLX) is an American provider of on-demand internet streaming media in the United States‚ Canada[5]‚ and Latin America and flat rate DVD-by-mail in the United States. The company was established in 1997 and is headquartered in Los Gatos‚ California. It started its subscription-based digital distributionservice in 1999[6] and by 2009 it was offering a collection of 100‚000 titles on DVD and had surpassed 10 million subscribers. On February 25‚ 2007‚ Netflix announced the billionth
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Netflix Case Study Analysis Executive Summary: Netflix Inc. (Netflix) is currently the largest online provider of DVD rentals in the US. Founded by Reed Hastings in 1997‚ the company offers monthly prepaid rental services utilizing its online search engine‚ where the company then mails DVDs to subscribers via the United States Postal Service (USPS). Since the company’s inception‚ Hasting has been exploiting disruptive innovations as a means of creating a competitive advantage over incumbents
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internet was growing at 2300% and founded Amazon.com‚ primarily as an online book seller. Authors Bolcher et al. (2013) point out an important aspect of value-chain analysis is that “the firm should carefully study each step in its operations to determine how each step contributes to the firm’s profits and competitiveness” (p. 12). Value-chain analysis played a critical role in the decision to register and locate Amazon.com business in Seattle because it provided large stock of technical talent
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countries” (Laudon‚ 2007‚ p. 121). Netflix launched in 1998 using a new business model and became Blockbusters biggest threat. The paradigm shift in the rental industry from having to travel to a store and rent a movie to being able to have a movie delivered to your mailbox changed the way people think about media entertainment. The next shift will be having the technology to download movies and shows directly to a television. Analysis Blockbuster and Netflix are using two different information
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Netflix Case Network Externalities Example User Linkage DVD players link users together. The DVD player itself serves as a uniform platform. In the case of Netflix‚ the DVD player allows for users to rent various movies in the form of DVDs and play them in the convenience of their own home. This can be on their televisions as well their computers. With the possibility of VOD‚ this linkage would be completed by the internet. With VOD‚ the use of the Netflix’s website and therefore computers would
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Question 1 How has Dell used its direct sales and build-to-order model to develop an exceptional supply chain? The many challenges in order to improve the supply chains usually come with the unidentified. Many companies produce products they think their consumer will want. After that‚ they ship their products to retail stores. Then‚ these stores try to sell the products to the customers. Here‚ the supply chains slows down as they are figuring out what to build next. Then‚ these companies deal
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Inc.’s servers being overloaded and key applications being available on the day of the launch. However‚ the product still managed to sell quickly in twenty one (21) states across the United States of America with a sale of 1 million units in three (3) days. Apple Inc. marketed their products quite differently from other companies‚ after launching they would drop prices significantly to suit their customers and to make sure that it is not unfair to those customers who made purchases at higher
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Competition in the Movie Rental Industry in 2008: Netflix and Blockbuster battle for Market Leadership Strategic Issues Netflix has limited streaming via online downloading. They also have limited market segment. Blockbuster does not maintain enough inventories of new releases‚ and also needs to expand into online downloading. Analysis Industry’s Dominant Economic Features The movie rental industry’s market size is relatively large with $24.9 billion in 2007‚ which is up from $22 million
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