Lecture 5 External Environment Parts of these slides are material developed and copyrighted by Johnson‚ Scholes & Whittington (2006) and Lynch (2006) Sustainable Competitive Advantage • One of the main purposes of analysing competitors is to explore where and how sustainable competitive advantage (SCA) can be generated • Public service and not-for-profit organisations may also wish to explore SCA as they may be in competition for finance from external bodies • SCA will probably require
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Assessment Task 4 BSBRSK501A Manage risk Prompt questions 1. What are three ways that research can be conducted for risk-related issues‚ and for each way‚ briefly describe how it may be done. Qualitative analysis may be useful as an initial screening to identify if further analyse of risk is required‚ when the analysis is appropriate for decisions‚ when numerical data or resources are inadequate. Semi-quantitative analysis sets values to the risks in order to produce a more
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Case Memo: Zara Fast Fashion 1. With which of the international competitors listed in the case is it most interesting to compare Inditex’s financial results? Why? What do comparisons indicate about Inditex’s relative operating economics? Indeed comparing the financial performance of Inditex with the key competitors‚ Inditex was the most profitable company in terms of ROIC. In terms of revenues‚ income and size‚ H&M shows that it is the most interesting to compare. Inditex has a store number
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Competitors’ customers Even though Zara can survive with the highest market share in the clothing market‚ still there are those competitors out there that Zara might gain more of their customers if it applied new marketing strategies . There’ 4 main competitors that the company should consider‚ including H&M‚ Mango‚ Uniqlo and Gap. For H&M ‚it has the customers that are mostly similar to Zara which mostly are women that are into fashionable clothes‚ want to follow the trends but are more price-conscious
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Case 2: Zara 1. What are the essential elements of Zara’s business model? The business idea of Zara is to link customer demand to manufacturing‚ and to link manufacturing to distribution. And based on this general idea‚ Zara has several essential elements for its business model. First‚ speed and decision making‚ which means that in the external level‚ Zara need to respond very quickly to demands of target customers‚ and always keep in style. While for the inside‚ Zara treasure intelligence
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Jan. 29‚ 2013 Zara International Business Problem Productivity is the best word to describe the approach of merchants during the classical era. Merchants believed that being strong in productivity would bring higher profits. It sounded so simple and unbelievable from the very different and complex businesses today. However‚ businesses cannot forget the significance of productivity even centuries after it was first thought of. After reading the article about Zara International‚ I was very
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Zara case Zara uses a vertically integrated system (VMS): In this system‚ wholesalers‚ retailers and distributors work as a unified system. One channel owns the others. They have a corporate VMS system‚ because Zara has managed to build a system that is controlled from the headquarters and it allows a quick response to decide and solve problems. Inditex‚ Zara’s parent company owns most of the resources to design‚ produce and distribute. Recommendations: Instead of doing everything themselves
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Executive Summary Spanish Inditex’s most successful retail clothing store Zara is known all across the world for its trendy apparel (Mcafee‚ Dessain‚ & Sjoman‚ 2004). The company has been very successful throughout the years but management has recently decided that the IT infrastructure may need updating. The store currently runs off of a POS system supported by DOS‚ which has not been supported by Microsoft for several years (Ferdows‚ Lewis‚ & Machuca‚ 2004). The POS system has been working flawlessly
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Running head: Zara Case Paper Analysis 1 Zara: IT for Fast Fashion Case Analysis Sonal Bhagwat University of Houston-Victoria MGMT 6352-2011FA-25125 November 2011 Zara Case Paper Analysis 2 Table of Contents: • Abstract 3 • Case Description 4 • Goals and Strategy 5 - Speed and Decision-making 5 - Marketing‚ Merchandising‚ and Advertising 6 - Information Technology 6 • Problem Analysis Firm-based-value chain model
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been exported to one hundred and twenty countries‚ and translated into forty five different languages. (Schweizer‚ 2012) Recommendation Option 2: VYP Retains Merchandising Rights
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