NORTH SOUTH UNIVERSITY Research Paper “The Role of Creativity and/or Innovation in Proving Competitive Advantage for Small and Medium Enterprises” Submitted To: Mr. Niaz Patwary (NzP) Submitted By: 1. Name: Md. Rezaur Rahman Section: 8 ID: 1020495030 2. Name: Dewan Tanjina Akter Section: 8 ID: 1020516030 3. Name: Ashraful Adib Section: 7 ID: 1020090530 Date of Submission: December 3‚ 2012 Fall Semester ------------------------------------------------- Letter of
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Diffusion of Innovations Theory Categories of adopters: According to the adoption curve by Everett Rogers‚ the individuals in a given social system can fall in any of the following five categories of adopters which are namely innovators‚ early adopters‚ early majority‚ late majority‚ and laggards. Innovators: Innovators who are often experienced‚ wealthier and/or highly educated people are brave and creative. According to Rogers‚ innovators accounts for about 2.5% of the population. They are attracted
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Zara is the flagship chain store of Inditex Group owned by Spanish tycoon Amancio Ortega. Zara is the most internationalized of Inditex’s chains. The group is headquartered in A Coruna‚ Spain‚ where the first Zara store opened in 1975. As of August 2009‚ there are more than 1‚500 Zara stores around the world. It is claimed that Zara needs just two weeks to develop a new product and get it to stores‚ compared with a six-month industry average‚ and launches around 10‚000 new designs each year. Zara
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its business model which is based on innovation and flexibility have made it one of the largest fashion groups worldwide. The group’s understanding of fashion‚ creativity and quality design and an agile response to the market demands have resulted in fast international expansion and a warm welcome of the business concept on behalf of the public. Inditex is present in 77 countries with stores of its nine different brands. The group’s most renowned brand alone‚ Zara‚ has over 1600 stores around the globe
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Production Enterprises Customers Suppliers Production Enterprises ZARA is the flagship brand under the Indetex Group‚ which is known worldwide by its fast fashion products. Their core competitive strategy is developing the new product and getting it to stores within 15 days. The uniqueprocessing model ensures ZARA occupied the market advantage among the fashion industry. Subcontractors Although ZARA manufacture approximately half of its products in their own factories‚ they use
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References: Strategies for change: logical incrementalism. James Brian Quinn Homewood‚ Ill. : R.D. Irwin‚ 1980. Strategies for change: logical incrementalism. James Brian Quinn Homewood‚ Ill. : R.D. Irwin‚ 1980. Zara Fast Fashion. Harvard Business School. 21st Dec. 2006.
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Zara expansion in China ZARA Zara is the flagship chain store of Inditex Group owned in Spanish. Inditex takes a step forward in its expansion in China. Zara opened its first store in this country in May 2004 at the IFC mall‚ Hong Kong‚ where it now has five stores. In February 2006 the first store was launched in Shanghai‚ in Nanjing Xi Lu‚ followed by a second one in this city located at Times Square mall. In February 2007 The Inditex Group already opened its first Zara store in Beijing‚ located
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What are the company’s competitive advantages? Zara is ‘fast fashion’. In order to proof this statement we are taking a look at different components where we can see their competitive advantages. Design The designers go to fashion shows‚ they develop sketches and while they select fabrics‚ the price of each product is already determined. The collection has to arrive in the stores at the start of the selling season. In order to keep up with the trends they not only look at the sales data but they
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proposed programme would be Rogers’ theory of ‘Diffusion of innovation’ and Lewin’s (1951) ‘Force Field Analysis’ (FFA). Rogers’ theory of Diffusion of innovation is the process of innovation communicated with participants to create and share information with one another in order to reach an equal understanding over time (Rogers‚ 2010). Rogers’ (2010) theory involved events when the change agent seeks to persuade a client to adopt an innovation. In relation to the team building programme‚ the higher
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Amancio Ortega Gaona is the founder and current chairman of Inditex. He is also Spain ’s richest man. Inditex runs over 4500 stores worlwide for different brands: • Zara International (833 stores) • Pull and Bear (423) • Massimo Dutti (360) • Bershka (354) • Stradivarius (257) • Oysho (146) • Zara Home (105) • Lefties () In Romania‚ Inditex is in a continuous development and has at this time 37 stores in the most important cities of Romania . Most stores
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