SAVONIA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES UNIT OF BUSINESS AND ADMINISTRATION‚ KUOPIO THE IMPORTANCE OF STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT A case study of H&M Ding Huiru Business Administration Bachelor’s thesis International Business April 2011 2 SAVONIA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES SAVONIA BUSINESS Degree Programme‚ option International Business Author(s) Ding Huiru Title of study The importance of strategic management‚ Case study of H&M Type of project Date Pages Thesis 27.4.2011 59+12 Supervisor(s)
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Background Information 1.1 Company overview The firm Zara is a Spanish clothing and accessories retailer based in Galicia‚ northern Spain. In 1975‚ founder Amancio Ortega opened the first store in La Coruna‚ Spain. Zara is the flagship chain store of the Inditex group (Industria de Diseno Textil)‚ encompassing many self-designed different fashion styles from daily clothing to formal suits‚ evening dresses and business wear. Their stores feature low-costs lookalike products of popular
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(Low to Medium) * New entrants will have to deal with high and large fixed cost * incentive because of profitability of zara * newest fashion at an inexpensive price * Zara as part of the Spanish Inditex Group‚ can benefit from the micro-economic concept of the Economies of Scale. Hence it gains cost advantages as production (scale) increases * Zara is operating within the market of “fast fashion” hence size as well as economic efficiency matter. Inditex’s superior supply chain
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ϖ Company 11 – Zara‚ Inditex ϖ Zara‚ the world largest clothing retailer brand that is part of the Inditex multinational clothing company which was created by Amancio Ortega and Rosalia Mera in 1974. They are based in the northwest of Spain. Currently‚ Zara has a total of 2‚000 stores in major cities around 88 different countries. They are acclaimed as a fast fashion company in the industry with more than two hundred professional designers within the creative teams. Zara’s products are diversification
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To what extent you feel the business model of Zara is sustainable? Critically evaluate the impact Zara has had on the fashion industry. The Fashion Imitator Established in 1975‚ Zara is one of the most successful retailers of today’s world. Their clear focus and vision has made them to tap the power of the fashion. Operating in 62 different countries it has nearly around 2500 stores all over the world. Zara under the flagship of Inditex‚ (a holding company located in Northwest Spain) is a fashion
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Why are goals necessary in life? Goals are objectives set for one to achieve. They come in different types and different length of time. One can have a personal‚ academic or career goal along with long term or short term goals. There are many goals I would like to achieve. I have created my long term personal‚ academic and career goals. My long term personal goal I have set for myself is to stay connected to my parents and siblings. I also want to have a family of my own. My academic long term goal
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Goals Paper In my Goals Paper you will find three things: my personal goals‚ my academic goals‚ and my career goals. Before beginning this paper I spent some time thinking over what it is I valued which helped me figure out what my goals would be .My personal goals revolve mostly around my fiancé Michael. My academic goals simply involve me graduating with as many A’s as possible and graduating college before I am 25. The last of the goals mentioned in this paper are my career goals which include
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SHORT TERM AND LONG TERM GOALS Setting personal goals in my life are important to me because I want to strive for personal Excellence. I hope that as long as I live I will strive to excel and learn. Achievement of a short term goal leads to a long term goal and it never ends unless I will it to end. Since I’m passionate about learning and setting goals I believe I will continue to learn and achieve new goals. One goal I am working on now is learning how to write an excellent paper‚ in proper
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A short-term goal is something you want to do in the near future. The near future can mean today‚ this week‚ this month‚ or even this year. A short-term goal is something you want to accomplish soon. Something that will take you a long time to accomplish is called a long-term goal. Both long- and short-term goals can help you in your career. Short-term goals help you think about what you can do right away. Short-term goals can help you manage your time. Short-term goals might seem small‚ but completing
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a repository of data : sourced from operational system + other data (e.g. external data) - Data was customized for the specific DSS - Application-centric approach : data support a single or a few related applications used to help make the business case for the warahouse - Sprague provided the Data-Dialog-Models (DDM) paradigm 2. Late 1980s - Telecommunications‚ retailing and financial services industries built warehouses to store vast amounts of customer and sales-related data
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