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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Fast Zara‚ Fast Fashion Introduction Everyone‚ no matter youngsters or middle-aged mothers‚ love to buy clothes and keep updated on latest fashion trend. In the past‚ people could only consume western styles clothing if they are rich enough to go shopping by travelling in European countries or able to afford expensive air mail to send the consumed western clothes back from overseas. However‚ it took a period of time and the fashionable clothing may become “old” at the time received. As the information
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Porter analysis of Zara Zara fashion chain‚ with 546 stores in 30 countries today from which 340 are outside Spain- and 2914‚3 millions of total sales in 2002‚ is undoubtedly the group’s locomotive (Inditex‚ 2003). In 2002 it represented 33% of the group’s total stores‚ accounted for 72% of the group’s total sales and contributed to the holding’s total profits for 540.4 millions (Inditex FY2002 Results Presentation‚ 2003). Moreover‚ Zara with 75-90 new stores within 2003 takes the lion’s share
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22 The Icfai Journal of Business Strategy‚ Vol. IV‚ No. 4‚ 2007 © 2007 The Icfai University Press. All Rights Reserved. Organization Structure and Inter-Organizational Dependency: The Environmental Imperative Contingency theory and Systems theory are the two dominant theories that bring out the link between organization structure and the environment. Systems theory has evolved over time and undergone several transitions. This study tries to provide a more meaningful understanding about
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Today there is a lot of talk about compensation‚ its cost to the organization and the company’s return on its compensation investment. As a result‚ a variety of new pay systems have been developed‚ each with its own objectives‚ benefits and risks. Some companies have already installed new pay plans‚ and many more are considering it. Strategic compensation planning allows an organization to focus on its strategic objectives and develop a comprehensive plan‚ considering base pay‚ short- and long-term
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Chapter 2 The Structure of the Advertising Industry: Advertisers‚ Agencies‚ and Support Organizations © 2006 Thomson/South-Western Trends Affecting the Advertising and Promotion Industry 1. The “Undoing” of Agency Consolidation and Globalization 2. Media Proliferation and Consolidation 3. Media Clutter and Fragmentation 4. Consumer Control: Blogs and TiVos © 2006 Thomson/South-Western Ch 2: The industry 2 The Worldwide Advertising Industry U.S expenditures: • >$250 billion Global
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Organizational Theory: Determinants of Structure -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The objective here is to understand why organizations have the structure that they do. By "structure" I mean things like degree and type of horizontal differentiation‚ vertical differentiation‚ mechanisms of coordination and control‚ formalization‚ and centralization of power. See handouts page for more information on organizational structure. According to Taylor‚ Fayol
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The objective of this paper is to analyze and evaluate the operations strategy of Zara. To do this‚ it will be used the operation strategy matrix‚ that defines on the vertical side the performance objectives of the company and on the horizontal side the different areas in which decisions can be made. The intersection of both will show which the critical areas of Zara’s operations are. In order to reach a deep level of analysis‚ it is very important the task of defining both the performance objectives
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ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE REPORT ON “SOUTH MALABAR STEELS AND ALLOYS (P) LTD” BY: SAQUIM VK 1MBAK 1321235 HISTORY OF ORGANIZATION South Malabar Steels and Alloys (P) Ltd is a well-established manufacturer of certified TMT Steel in South India. It is an ISO 9001-2000 certified. South Malabar
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CASE STUDY ANALYSIS ZARA: IT FOR FAST FASHION Introduction The success of Zara in apparel manufacturing and retail business started from their belief that customers taste in fashion is hard to predict. Zara’s strategic intent to respond quickly and accurately to the fastchanging market demand has become the basis in building their core competency of highly responsive supply chain. This supply chain enables Zara to quickly capture the unpredictable market demand‚ shorten the turnaround production
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