Information Systems (Volume 11‚ 2003)79-93 79 CUSTOM MADE APPAREL AND INDIVIDUALIZED SERVICE AT LANDS’ END Blake Ives Information Systems Research Center University of Houston blake.ives@uh.edu Gabriele Piccoli Cornell University ABSTRACT The case describes a hugely successful example of IT-driven strategy‚ the Lands’ End custom tailored apparel initiative. In less than a year‚ 40% of Lands’ End customers buying chinos and jeans from the firm’s web site were buying tailored products. Over 20% of
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The Great Depression was a major part of America’s history‚ but most specifically a major part of Georgia’s history. The Great Depression all started when the Stock Market crashed on October 29‚ 1929. Georgians‚ both who lived in rural and urban parts of Georgia‚ face many economic challenges and suffered in plenty of different ways. The rural farmers of Georgia had faced many agriculture based problems before and during the Great Depression‚ such as the boll weevil‚ the decreasing prices of cotton
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1. What does Danto mean by the End of Art? The end of art is not the death of art‚ but the wholesale elimination of what used to be considered art and its replacement by a new concept: pluralism. When art has exhausted itself and this concept has been brought into the forefront of the consciousness‚ this awareness signals the end of art. Art is no longer art in the traditional sense (having a manifesto-aesthetically pleasing‚ etc.) because the accessibility to art and to create art has allowed
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submitted). Not every problem will have a template. If this occurs‚ add a tab to the template file for the missing problem. Naming convention: Submit the homework with the last names of the submitters in alphabetical order: cohen.markovitz.homework1.xlsm. Put the names at a separate tab in the excel file. Other formats will be penalized with a 3 point penalty. Use Getformula to annotate your answers (5 point penalty for unreasonable non-use of this function). Question 1 Irene deposited a total of
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There Are Now Two Americas. My Country is a Horror Show1 by David Simon America is a country that is now utterly divided when it comes to its society‚ its economy‚ its politics. There are definitely two Americas. I live in one‚ on one block in Baltimore that is part of the viable America‚ the America that is connected to its own economy‚ where there is a plausible future for the people born into it. About 20 blocks away is another America entirely. It’s astonishing how little we have to do with each
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our everyday lives‚ it should be their duty to fix the economy. I also believe that too much control given to the government can result in corruption. During the Great Depression‚ Franklin Roosevelt made the new deal upon coming president. The new deal aimed to stimulate the industrial recovery‚ to assist the victims of the depression‚ and to raise the quality of life standards and to prevent future economic crises. It is nonsensical to say that the new deal worked perfectly‚ but it would also be ignorant
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The End of Nature Book Review Introduction 1 a) When Bill McKibben originally wrote this book in the late 1980s‚ the two observations were that we tell time badly and that our sense of scale is awry. 1 b) Nothing at all has changed‚ but actually gotten worse. It has increased by 15%. 1 c) Three pieces of evidence that support global warming is that sea levels will rise‚ warmer seasons and a lot more hurricanes will come. 1 d) Everything we do involves fossil fuels and in order to
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Title JOMINY END-QUENCH TEST Objective To determine the hardenability of plain carbon steel. Theory Hardenability is the ability of a steel to be hardened and form martensite during quenching. Hardenability indicates the depth of hardness which is obtained from quenching process‚ and it is very important to the components of machine especially tool steel. One of the methods to determine the hardenability of steels is Jominy End-Quench Test. Hardening usually involves quenching
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surrendering much of Russia’s resources. The Civil War ruined Russia’s economy. During the War‚ Lenin initiated War Communism. The state seized most factories‚ all surplus food was taken to the government‚ and there was no buying‚ selling‚ or trading. During this time‚ a huge percentage of Russians dies (about 33%). Many of them being farmers and laborers. 4. Describe life in Russia under Joseph Stalin in the 1920s and 1930s. Your answer must address the use of propaganda‚ The Great Purge‚ and the role
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The Great Depression time period of 1929 to World War II was one of the longest and largest economic issues that had begun to change the world as we know it today. Many families were harmed and put in horrible positions in their life. It caused almost a full decade of misery to people worldwide. The Great Depression caused a collapse in the history of America. It all began with the over production in agriculture and industry. Farmers bought tons of farm equipment with loans‚ but then could not
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