Zara : IT for Fast Fashion Zara is a leading brand in the fashion retail industry. It is a vertically integrated retailer‚ a pioneer of the Just-In-Time Inventory system. It becomes important to define the critical success factors for this industry in the analysis presented through the following three questions: 1. How can you differentiate Zara’s use of IT? Technology investment should be targeted at the points in the value chain where the impact is most significant. If we look at the value
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ZARA: IT For Fast Fashion 1. Is Zara’s business model scalable ? No‚ Zara’s business model is not scalable Reasons: • • • • Though Zara is able to do well in a dynamic market‚ most of the sales of Zara come from Spain (46%) and from women’s segment (73.3%). Hence it becomes very difficult for Zara to scale it up to other countries and other segments. Zara follows decentralized model where store managers have lot a of power – It is very difficult to find such efficient people once we they scale
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The Bad Trip It was October‚ 2012‚ when my uncle Dan was diagnosed with stage four cancer. Everyone was devastated‚ cancer is bad‚ but stage four is the worst. Mom was crushed‚ Dan was like a dad to her. So she went up to Batesville‚ Indiana for as long as it took for him to get better. Sadly‚ he passed two months into his treatments. The family and I suspected mom would be coming home soon‚ but that didn’t happen the way we suspected. Mom was leaving and she wasn’t coming back. I couldn’t believe
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Bibliography Ribeiro‚ A.‚ 1995. The Art of Dress: Fashion in England and France in 1750 to 1820. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. Tarrant‚ N.‚ 1994. The Development of Costume. London: Routledge Ribeiro‚ Aileen‚ 1983. A Visual History of Costume: The Eighteenth Century. London: B. T. Batsford Ltd. Cunnington‚ C. Willett‚ & Cunnington‚ P‚ 1972 Revised‚ A Handbook of English Costume in the 18th Century‚ Page 14‚ Northampton: John Dickens & Co. Ltd. Page 32 Kalinsky‚ N.‚ 1995
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A Bad Day Everyone has gone through bad times in their life. It is the moment when you wish the earth would open up and swallow you. The embarrassment and discomfort felt during that time which may only last a few seconds feels like the time has stood still. I woke up at 6.00 am‚ when I was rudely awakened by my screaming alarm clock. I pounded on it until I found the ‘snooze’ button. My eyelids felt heavy and dropped down. Tiredness got the best of me. I rolled back over to catch a few more
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Animals in the Fashion Industry Imagine being taken from your family‚ to a cold‚ dark place where you are locked up‚ with no room to move‚ in a small cage. You are taken every once in a while to get your hair shaved off‚ and things rubbed into your skin that could potentially make your hair never grow back‚ or it burns you and makes your skin bleed. Or maybe you get a substance put into your eyes and are kept with that substance in your eyes for two weeks and you go blind‚ or maybe you are being
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The definition of censorship is the examination of books‚ movies‚ etc. and ending unallowable parts. Censorship can be a good‚ or a bad thing. The good part about censorship‚ is that it helps end things that are not useful. The bad part is‚ it sometimes is not needed‚ extremely debatable whether it should be questioned or not‚ or it can cause a huge ruckus. In the article‚ “Fighting Against Tradition‚” by Emily Scott‚ it talks about how Emily’s high school newspaper staff used censorship to try and
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hold and train the torso into a desired shape for aesthetic or medical purposes (either for the duration of wearing it or with a more lasting effect). Both men and women are known to wear corsets‚ though women more commonly do. In recent years‚ the fashion industry has also borrowed the term "corset" to refer to tops which‚ to varying degrees‚ mimic the look of traditional corsets without actually acting as them. While these modern corsetsand corset tops often feature lacing or boning and generally
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do for our youth vary by who is speaking. John Holt‚ author of the essay‚ “School is Bad for Children‚” makes a plea in his essay to‚ “Free children from the classroom‚ a “dull and ugly place‚ where nobody ever says anything very truthful”(72). Throughout the essay‚ he expresses his emotions clearly against sending children to school. He believes that sending and having a child taught in school is the wrong thing to do. However‚ young children need some type of schooling to help develop their mind
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motivation and you want to make them proud‚ so you try your hardest. Homeschooling you have the choice of what you learn‚ or will learn‚ sometimes even your parent’s interests or morals as well. Homeschooling is one on one attention‚ and in most cases is bad since parents are the only teacher’s it is easier to just do their child’s work for them if they do not understand it. One on one attention is only good if you have a child that has special needs and needs more time learning. Also if your parent is
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