CASE STUDY ANALYSIS: ZARA Name Institution Professor Course Date Table of Contents 1. Introduction 3 2. Strategic Issues Underpinning the Buying Decisions at Zara 3 3. Zara’s Product Mix Strategy: Advantages and Disadvantages 6 4. Conclusion 8 REFERENCES 10 1. Introduction Zara is a successful retail clothing company that expanded over the years due to its elaborate supply chain and excellent product mix strategy. The company established in 1963 opened its first store in 1975
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Contrasting Servant Leadership to Transactional Leadership Organizational Behavior and Management defines Transactional Leadership as being‚ “Helps the follower identify what must be done to accomplish the desired results (e.g.‚ better-quality output‚ more sales or services‚ reduced cost of production) and ensures that employees have the resources needed to complete the job‚ (Ivancevich‚ Konopaske‚ Matteson‚ p. 453).” Business dictionary defines transactional leader as a‚ “style of leadership
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Selling Used Technology to Buy the Latest Gadgets It is no secret that many of us keep accumulating phones‚ laptops‚ mp3 players‚ consoles and other gadgets at our homes. It is no secret either that most of us wish to always have the latest products of one of the most fascinating industries: consumer electronics. One way of keeping up with the many releases of our favourite devices without making our bank account suffer is to recover part of the money we invested in products we do not use anymore
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Transactional leadership styles are more concerned with maintaining the normal flow of operations. Transactional leadership can be described as "keeping the ship afloat." Transactional leaders use disciplinary power and an array of incentives to motivate employees to perform at their best. A transactional leader generally does not look ahead in strategically guiding an organization to a position of market leadership; instead‚ these managers are solely concerned with making sure everything flows smoothly
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Job Title: Customer Service Agent Job Summary: A Customer Service Agent deals with customers mainly by email‚ but occasionally by telephone to handle customer inquires and complaints. The customer service agent obtains all pertinent information from the customer and acts a mediary on behalf of Half.com‚ between the sellers and the buyers to settle all disputes‚ inquiries and complaints. Relationships: The Customer Service Agent will have and maintain working relationships with other Customer
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[Case: Zipcar] Zipcar’s SWOT and financial analysis a) Strengths Firstly‚ Zipcar seized 80% of US market share‚ making it the strong player in the market. Secondly‚ as the company is able to acquire its competitors (Flexcar-US‚ Streetcar Ltd-UK)‚ they can reduce the competitors as well as gain those market shares and customer bases from those 2 companies. Thirdly‚ Zipcar’s customer-friendly and disruptive business model is what makes it unique. They leverages accessibility‚ make it available close
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1. Strategy of Ryanair Overview of the Company Ryanair started in year 1985 with only 57 staff members and with one 15 seater turboprop plane from the south of east of Ireland to London-Gatwick which carried 5000 passengers on one route (Harrison‚ 2002). In 1986‚ inspired from the story of David and Goliath the company go after the big guys for a slice of the action and end up smashing the Aer Lingus or British Airways high fare cartel on the Dublin-London route. The staff increased
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Case Study: Ducati Should Minoli seek to grow the business in 2001? Since Minoli took the position as CEO of Ducati in 1996‚ the business has grown and became extremely successful. He transformed a company that was once on the verge of going bankrupt into one of the most profitable motorcycle manufacturers in the world. The explosive growth‚ profitability‚ market share‚ and revenues prove Minoli truly is an expert in turnaround management. He set high goals for the company such as reaching 10%
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in improving the business. This paper introduces three theories namely Fundamental Attribution Error‚ Expectancy Theory‚ Operant Conditional Theory in identifying the problems that fall into one of these categories. 1. From the Portman Hotel case study‚ there were many fundamental attribution errors made by groups or type of people. A few of them are • Firing PVs in the first month by the Management due to their low turnover (16%) • PVs complaint about porters‚ who were slow to respond to
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5. How can the Internet be used to facilitate Telecommuting? Telecommuting‚ is also referred to as ‘telework”‚ this seen as the act of businesses enabling their employee to carry out work from the comfort of their‚ home or a remote area‚ hotel and so forth‚ it is the act of commuting mobile through various telecommunicating equipment’s. To enable employees to get work done more efficiently‚ and rid them of various distractions across the workplace. It rids the company from not meeting their required
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