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 End of Race What if the human races of the world all vanished into thin air? That’s what Steve Olson proposes in “The End of Race: Hawaii and the Mixing of Peoples”. According to the world everyone is made of a certain race. The two main races are White and Black (African American). But there are others as well‚ including American Indian (Alaska Native)‚ Asian‚ Hispanic (Latino)‚ Native Hawaiian (Other Pacific Islander)‚ or Other. Most people only identify as one corresponding to their birth
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The End of the Road “Hell‚ And How I Got Here” by Brenda Medina and “Puzzle Pieces” by Barbara Parsons Lane are two short stories from the book Couldn’t Keep It To Myself by Wally Lamb. Medina and Lane are two women who are serving time in a maximum security prison. Brenda Lane is serving time for homicide and Barbara Parsons Lane is serving time for manslaughter. Brenda was involved in a gang-related killing while Barbara was convicted of killing her abusive husband. Each of these women lived
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The End Of Segregation Christine E. Parthree HIS 204 Prof. Joshua Ozymy February 19‚ 2012 African Americans have helped to end segregation‚ discrimination‚ and isolation to bring forth equality and civil rights by producing strong outstanding citizens like Roas Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King‚ Jr. While segregation and isolation have completely ended for the African American people‚ discrimination is still around today. Rosa Parks was an outstanding woman. She spent all day working
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In the next chapter The End Of The World Part One Death spoils the ending for you and tells you that everyone on Himmel Street dies except for Liesel who is saved because she was in the Hubermanns’ basement reading her books. In the chapter The Ninety-Eighth Day begins with an old lady announcing that the Jews are a bad omen. Soon after on the 98th day people find Michael Holtzapfel hanging from a rafter at the launderers. Hans is then chosen to tell his mother Mrs.Holtzapfel who hugs her son’s dead
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Albert Darvesh US History 1 June 24‚ 2013 Comparative Essay The concentration camps‚ by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive)‚ robbed death of its meaning as the end of a fulfilled life. In a sense they took away the individual’s own death‚ proving that henceforth nothing belonged to him and he belonged to no one. His death merely set a seal on the fact that he had never existed. There were many prison camps during the World
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Unit 332 Support individuals at the end of life 1.1 The main legal requirements and agreed ways of working relating to end of life care are: 1. The Department of Health’s 2008 End of Life Care Strategy that provides a framework aimed at promoting high quality care for all adults approaching the end of life in all care settings. It sets out what adults reaching the end of their lives‚ and their carers can expect from the services provided to them. One of the key aims is to ensure as far as possible
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The End or The Journey? “The journey is far greater than the inn.” I am a sixteen year old girl. As a child‚ there is a long journey towards adulthood. There is the pleasure of the journey taken and the joy of the end. Some people may say that the journey is more memorable than the goal. Others may argue that the goals are the most memorable ones. I believe that the journey a person takes has a more impact on the person. A journey‚ by definition‚ means a passage or progress from one stage to another
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causes poverty‚ how can we fix it‚ and when we can fix it are all questions that they ask. Many solutions have been proposed‚ few have been tested‚ and none have proven to be successful. In The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities of Our Time‚ Jeffrey D. Sachs presents a practical and viable plan to end global poverty. Sachs hopes to achieve this through a nation building process‚ funded by the richest nations‚ that develops the "economic plumbing" for the flow of economic prosperity to impoverished
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