Running Head: PROPOSAL TO IMPROVE THE IT/IS STRATEGY AT ZARA Proposal to Improve the IT/IS Strategy at ZARA Be future ready!!! Oct. 3‚ 2011 Executive Summary To grow at the same pace in the fast changing fashion industry‚ Zara should use advanced IT/IS systems as an enabler to improve the overall business process. Zara is facing a challenge today by using obsolete technology. Also due to a number of internally developed applications‚ there is no clear picture of the entire sales or inventory
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6.0 STRATEGIC ANALYSIS & RECOMMENDATION FOR ZARA 6.1 PORTER 5 FORCES ANALYSIS 1. Barriers to entry: HIGH a. High fixed cost business requires economics of scale for sustained profitability b. High Selling & Administration Expenses which includes advertising‚ in-store promotions‚ etc.; up to 3.5% of its revenue‚ even though for Zara‚ the company is famous for spending minimum level of advertisements and commercials. However‚ recently the company announced that it invested €450 million in
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Module Leader: Michael Cardoso Module Name and Number: Leadership and Management HRM3125 The Internal and External business environment of BBA Aviation plc Student Names & Numbers: Count: 4200 Date: 05/08/2013
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Date: August 23‚ 2010 To: Professor Kopka From: Veronica Salas Subject: Strategic Analysis for McDonalds EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS External Analysis There are two conditions that are most significant in McDonald’s external environment that are: 1. The new trend in which customers are changing fast –food restaurants to healthier ones. 2. The arising competition to achieve growth in this industry. The fast-food industry is very complex and saturated. The key
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So‚how can we get to iconic branding? To me‚ iconic branding is about really getting three things right: The first and most important is segmentation. Now‚ segmentation is a much used word‚ but it can make the difference between winning and losing. Segmentation must go way beyond the generic functional attributes and features if it has to be truly powerful. It must seek to understand the functional‚ the psychological and the emotional gratification that the consumer derives. A very good example
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Dish Network The external analysis of Dish Network shows the TV service providers industry and environmental factors that affect those companies in the industry. The two studies that were used to examine the external factors were PEST Analysis and Michael Porter’s Five Competitive Forces. Through these two studies‚ Dish Network can have a better understanding of not only their industry factors‚ but other environmental issues that may cause a need for concern. The first study that we will discuss
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introduction Football refers to a number of sports that involve‚ to varying degrees‚ kicking a ball with the foot to score a goal. The most popular of these sports worldwide is association football‚ more commonly known as just "football" or "soccer". Unqualified‚ the word football applies to whichever form of football is the most popular in the regional context in which the word appears‚ including association football‚ as well as American football‚ Australian rules football‚ Canadian football‚ Gaelic
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Zara Case Analysis Zara’s Marketing Strategy • Produce a product that can adjust and fit multiple trends and can adapt quickly to new style. • Pride itself on its location (usually on the best street in big cities) as opposed to spending money on public advertisements. • Target a youthful and vibrant culture. • Have current and efficient technology in their stores. Target Market • Young‚ fashion- conscious city dwellers. • Rapidly changing style that needed to cater to people who were not
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ZARA: Fast Fashion The Spanish retail chain Zara has unique supply chain management practices that enable it to gain a competitive advantage over other fashion retailers in the industry. Zara’s rapid response time enables the firm to quickly respond to changing fashions while deliberately under producing products. This strategy‚ which is supported by competencies in logistic management‚ design and information systems‚ allows the company to maintain less inventory and higher profit margins and is
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survive and prosper in a global environment that is highly dynamic and unstable. Managers in this setting not only deal with a set of social ‚ economic‚ legal and political factors in the home nation‚ but with entirely different set of these in each country of operation. International management involves balancing a firm ’s internal environment forces which is a system of shared meaning and beliefs within an organization that determines employees act with external environmental forces which is outside
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